Oreb
| Oreb | ||
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 Cemetery and church on the Oreb |
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| height | 256 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Východočeská tabule | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 12 '10 " N , 15 ° 59' 24" E | |
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The Oreb is a 256 m high hill in the town of Třebechovice pod Orebem in the Czech Republic . It rises above a bend in the river on the right bank of the Dědina .
The hill, which was formerly used as a vineyard, became the gathering place of the East Bohemian Hussites under their religious leader Ambrož Hradecký from 1419 . The hill, which was named by the Hussites after the biblical mountain Horeb , also gave them the name Orebiten .
In 1528 Zdeněk Trčka from Lípa had a wooden church built on the Oreb, which was demolished in 1826. Jan Theobald Held founded the neo-baroque Church of the Holy Body in 1835.
People's assemblies have been held on Mount Oreb since 1868. In 1920 the name of the historic hill was added to the town name, which has since been Třebechovice pod Orebem .