Oškobrh
| Oškobrh | ||
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 South view from Opolany |
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| height | 285 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | East Bohemian table | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 8 '48 " N , 15 ° 13' 31" E | |
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The Oškobrh , formerly also Vlkovský kopec (German Wolfsberg ) is a 285 m high mountain in the Czech Republic.
location
The distinctive wooded double peak of the Oškobrh rises eight kilometers east of Poděbrady from the East Bohemian table. To the south lies the valley basin of the Cidlina , from which the Sánský kanál leads its water to the west around the mountain. In the east, beyond the broad basin of the Milešovický creek, rises the ridge Na Hřebínku ( Banberg , 271 m).
history
The mountain , which used to be surrounded by extensive swamps that reached north to the Mrlina , was already settled during the Hallstatt and La Tène periods .
In 1352 there was the first written mention of the village Oškobrh and its parish church on Oškobrh, which together with Sány , Žehuň and Badra was confirmed to the Cistercian monastery of Hradiště . During the Hussite Wars , Oškobrh was probably destroyed and remained desolate. In the wetlands north of the mountain, the Podiebrad fish ponds were created in the 15th and 16th centuries, which received their water supply from the Sánský kanál . The Bláto was considered the largest pond in Bohemia. During the time of George of Poděbrady , the mountain came under the rule of Poděbrady and has been handed down as a forest area since the second half of the 15th century.
After the town was destroyed, only the Gothic church was rebuilt and used until the Thirty Years War. Then it was repaired again. In 1707 it was so dilapidated that it was cleared and its furnishings were moved to St. George's Church in Libice nad Cidlinou . The building, which was in danger of collapsing, was demolished in the 1730s. In order to preserve the place of pilgrimage, the church finally agreed to a proposal by the royal building scribe Dinnebier and from 1736 built a new baroque church a few meters southeast of the old foundation walls. It was completed in 1736 and was consecrated on Peter and Paul Day as part of a pilgrimage during which processions from Poděbrady , Žehuň and Činěves went up the mountain.
In the second half of the 18th century, the ponds were drained. In 1777, in the course of the raabization, the repopulation of the area on Oškobrh, which at that time was called Vlkovský kopec / Wolfsberg , began. The villages Srbetz (Srbce), Wolfsberg , Lustdorf and Hermannsdorf were built around the mountain .
As a result of the Josephine reforms, the decision to demolish the church was made in 1783. This was carried out in 1786, although the evangelists from the surrounding new villages campaigned for the preservation of the church and had tried to take it over or to buy it at a moderate price. In the remaining walls of the church ruin, a Hegerhaus was set up in 1798 . In 1839 Georg Simon von Sina acquired the Oškobrh with the Podiebrad rule. He was followed by his son Simon von Sina and after his death Chariklea Ypsilanty inherited the property. She sold it to Ernst Philipp Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst in 1885. During this time, the mountain was used for forestry purposes.
The forest estate was sold to a Mr. Kulhánek at the beginning of the 20th century, who had a small castle built on the site of the Hegerhaus. Kulhánek took over financially with the construction and had to sell his large estate. The new owner was the millionaire Ornst, who, after reviewing the economic situation, immediately looked for a buyer for the property and finally found him in the Prague freight forwarder Josef Barth. In 1934 the construction of the palace was completed. A little later it was sold to the Kořána brothers, owners of a large Prague elk. During the two years of their ownership, they exploited the forest. The centuries-old stock of old oaks with mighty apple, pear and cherry trees was radically cut. From 1939 the estate belonged to the Prague industrialist family Eduard Baumgartner, who converted parts of the cleared early forest areas into arable land.
After the Second World War, the Vlkov forest estate on Oškobrh was nationalized and an enclosure for breeding mouflons was set up. The castle is used by the ČAV Praha archaeological institute as a warehouse and office. The game reserve and estate were returned to the Baumgartner family in 1992.