Plav (Czech Republic)
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | České Budějovice | ||||
| Area : | 510 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 54 ' N , 14 ° 29' E | ||||
| Height: | 406 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 423 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 370 07 | ||||
| License plate : | C. | ||||
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| Street: | Kamenný Újezd - Heřmaň | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Oldřiška Ribolová (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Plav 57 370 07 České Budějovice |
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| Municipality number: | 535346 | ||||
| Website : | www.plav.cz | ||||
| Location of Plav in the České Budějovice district | |||||
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Plav (Czech until 1924: Plavo or Plava ; German Plaben ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located three kilometers east of Kamenný Újezd on both sides of the Malsch .
history
Legend has it that three brothers were washed ashore on the Maltsch. They decided to stay and built a house for themselves which they called Plavo ( raft ).
The first written mention of Plavo comes from June 4, 1262, when Vok de Rosenberg awarded the village to the Hohenfurth monastery in his will . In 1273 King Přemysl Ottokar II exchanged the place with the monastery for Rožnov and handed it over to the town of Budweis, which he had founded in the meantime . His son Wenceslaus II returned Plavo to the monastery in 1292.
Since 1400, Plavo had brewing rights, which often led the feuds with the city of Budweis. The monastery built a mill in 1450. In 1489 the village consisted of 16 farmsteads. In 1571 a big fire destroyed the mill and almost the whole village.
During the Napoleonic Wars, a smaller French division was quartered in Plavo.
In 1892 the construction of a school building from donations from the residents began, which was completed in 1894. Between 1895 and 1896 the Maltsch was regulated and a cast-iron gangway, which rests on stone pillars, was built over the river. Since the river was used for rafting the wood from the Bucquoy forests near Gratzen to Budweis, a weir with a raft rake in front and a raft lock was built . The head of the project was the Count Bucquoyian engineer Augustin Prochaska.
In 1905 the construction of the road to Budweis began, which was completed in 1907. During this time, the surrounding settlements were also incorporated. Between 1912 and 1913, a new reinforced concrete vault bridge was built over the river and the Mühlgraben.
In 1913 there were 641 residents in Plavo, all of whom belonged to the Czech ethnic group. These included the villages of Plavo with 256 inhabitants, Heřmaň with 285 inhabitants and Vidov , in which 89 people lived. On November 17, 1924, the name of the village was changed to Plav .
In 1979 the school was closed and the building has since been converted into a senior citizens' center. Since 1990 Plav, which was incorporated into Doudleby since 1976 , has been independent again.
In 2002, on August 7th and 8th and August 12th and 13th, the village was severely affected by the worst flood in its history. The Maltsch reached a water level of 1.80 m.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Plav. Basic settlement units are Plav, Plav-u Včelné and Plav-za Malší.
Attractions
- Historic warehouse, probably built during the late Renaissance
- There are several pagan tombs in the nearby forest. The burial mounds were archaeologically examined in the 19th century and the finds are kept in the South Bohemian Museum (Jihočeský muzeum). A cassette with the soil of the graves was added to the laying of the foundation stone of the Prague National Theater on May 16, 1868 .
- Cast iron bridge and rafts on the Maltsch
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk an der Maltsch, erected in 1882 by order of the director Krauskop of the Count's Bucquoy administration in Gratzen as a symbol to turn away from floods
Web links
- http://www.plav.cz/ (Czech)
