Plasy
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Plzeň-sever | ||||
| Area : | 5713 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 56 ' N , 13 ° 24' E | ||||
| Height: | 350 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 2,715 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 331 01 | ||||
| License plate : | P | ||||
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| Street: | I / 27 Pilsen - Kralovice | ||||
| Railway connection: | 160 Plzeň – Žatec | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 6th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Zdeněk Hanzlíček (as of 2010) | ||||
| Address: | Plzeňská 285 331 01 Plasy |
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| Municipality number: | 559351 | ||||
| Website : | www.plasy.cz | ||||
Plasy (German Plaß ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 21 kilometers north of the city center of Pilsen and belongs to the Pilsen North District .
geography
Plasy is located in the west of the Rakonitzer hill country in the valley of the Střela ( Schnella ). To the north rises the Táhly (457 m), in the west the Spálená hora (514 m), south of the Špitál (410 m) and in the south-west Na Krásnici (462 m). The state road I / 27 Železná Ruda - Pilsen - Plasy - Kralovice - Dubí and the railway line Plzeň - Žatec runs through the city .
Neighboring towns are Horní Hradiště and Žebnice in the north, Sechutice, Hadačka and Výrov in the north-east, Babina in the east, Nebřeziny in the south-east, Rybnice and Kaznějov in the south, Mrtník and Lomnička in the south-west, Lomany and Korýndřov in the west and Vrážej and Orážej and north-west.
history
In the 12th century there was a princely court on the site of Plasy. In 1144 Vladislav II and his wife Gertrud von Babenberg founded the Plasy Monastery . The following year, the first nine came Cistercian from the Klosterlangheim in the area and received by Vladislav II. Princely Ansitz Plasy and villages Kázňov in, Sechutice, Vražné and Nebřeziny and whose income serfdom passed. A Romanesque basilica was built in 1202. The Cistercian monastery became a center of the Roman Catholic colonization of the Rakonitz Uplands. 1350 which included basic rule of the monastery 50 villages. The monastery began to decline economically during the Hussite attacks . In 1419 the first villages were pledged and in 1431 the Hussites under their general Andreas Prokop burned down the monastery. Subsequently, the monastery became impoverished and in 1518 had to pledge the Kaceřov reign that remained to it . After that, the monastery rule only comprised six villages with the income to be achieved from them. The Thirty Years War brought a turning point . After the battle of the White Mountain and the re-Catholicization in Bohemia, the Plaß monastery received back a large part of the lost property. This enabled the monastery to redesign the dilapidated monastery buildings in the baroque style.
In 1785 the Plaß monastery was abolished in the course of the Josephine reforms and its property consisting of the town of Kralowitz , 55 villages, the provosts Mariánská Týnice and Bohemian Leipa and houses in Prague , Rakonitz and Pilsen was handed over to the religious fund for administration. In 1826, the Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich bought the manor of Plaß / Plasy, had the monastery redesigned into a castle with an English landscape park and the Clemenshütte ironworks built northwest of the town of Plaß an der Schnella . In the 19th century, Plasy was extended to the right bank of the Schnella.
After the abolition of the manors, Plaß / Plasy formed a community in the Kralowitz district from 1850. In 1873 the place received a railway connection through the Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) railway. In 1918 Plaß joined the newly founded Czechoslovakia . In 1930 Plasy had 1,747 inhabitants, 32 of whom were German and from 1939 to 1945 it belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . After the end of the Second World War in May 1945, the Princely House of Metternich was expropriated and the German-speaking residents expelled . In 1949, Plasy was elevated to a district town. After the Okres Plasy was abolished, the city was assigned to the Okres Plzeň-sever in 1961.
Local division
The town of Plasy consists of the districts Babina, Horní Hradiště ( Ober Radisch ), Nebřeziny ( Bruck , also Nebrzczin ), Lomnička ( Lomnitschka ), Plasy ( Plaß ) and Žebnice ( Schebnitz , also Zebnitz ) and the settlement Lomany ( Loman ).
Attractions
- Plasy Monastery , under the abbots Andreas Troyer and Eugen Tyttl, the monastery complex was redesigned in the Baroque style between the end of the 17th and mid-18th centuries by Jean Baptiste Mathey , Johann Blasius Santini-Aichl , Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer .
- Monastery church of the Assumption of Mary, built 1661–1666
- three-storey storage facility, built 1685–1686
- Gothic royal chapel from 1265
- Church of St. Wenzel, redesigned in baroque style by Jean Baptiste Mathey; In 1826, Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich had the main facade redesigned in the Empire style. He had a burial place laid for himself and his family in the church.
- Střela valley to the north-west of the city, rocky gorge with several meanders and two railway tunnels
- English landscape park Velká louka
sons and daughters of the town
- Rudolf Jung (1882–1945), National Socialist politician and author
- Václav Levý (1820–1870), sculptor, born in Nebřeziny
- Viktor Stretti (1878–1957), graphic artist and lithographer
- Antonín Wiehl (1846–1910), architect
Worked in the city
- Johann Georg Nussbaumer (1794–1854), chief forest master
literature
- Lillian Schacherl: Bohemia - cultural image of a landscape, Prestel-Verlag Munich 1966, art landscape of the baroque with pen Tepl, page 118/119.
