Police nad Metují
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | After that | ||||
| Area : | 2440 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 32 ' N , 16 ° 14' E | ||||
| Height: | 441 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 4,086 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 549 54 | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 6th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jiří Beran (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Masarykovo náměstí 98 549 54 Police nad Metují |
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| Municipality number: | 574341 | ||||
| Website : | www.meu-police.cz | ||||
Police nad Metují (German Politz an der Mettau ) is a city in northeastern Czech Republic . It belongs to the Okres Náchod in the Královéhradecký kraj region and is located 17 kilometers northeast of Náchod .
geography
Police nad Metují is located in the Ledhujka valley on the edge of the Braunau walls . Neighboring towns are Hony ( Hutberg ) and Pěkov ( Piekau ) in the north, Hlavňov in the northeast, Suchý Důl in the east, Bělý and Machov in the southeast, Bezděkov , Vysoká Srbská and Velké Petrovice in the south, Stárkov and Vlásenka in the west and Lachov in the northwest.
history
The colonization of the Polický újezd ( Polický újezd ) goes back to the Benedictines of the Břevnov monastery . The Bohemian King Ottokar I gave him the Politzer Sprengel with the order to colonize and cultivate the assigned land. Abbot Martin I of Břevnov founded a Politz in Provost , from the further history and development were strongly influenced by Politz.
Politz was first mentioned in a document on September 6, 1253 in a document from King Ottokar II , with which he approved the transfer of the market from Provodov to Politz, which already had the status of a town, to the Břevnov abbot Martin I. On August 9, 1254, the border between the Nachod rule and the Břevnov branch monastery Politz was established in a Latin document . It ran from Machau along the Srbský potok to its confluence with the Mettau. On November 3, 1260, King Ottokar II. Přemysl confirmed to the Břevnov monastery the area of the Politzer Sprengels and the area behind the Braunauer walls , which until then had belonged to the Glatzer Land and which the monastery had wrongly appropriated beforehand.
Around 1295 the town was the center of a rule administered by the Politz provosts . The Braunau monastery was founded from Politz in 1322 . From the middle of the 14th century it belonged to the old Bohemian Königgrätzer district . During the Hussite Wars , Politz was burned down in May 1421 by the Silesians who fought on the side of the Bohemian King Sigismund and moved from Braunau to Prague via Politz and Náchod . In addition, the population who had fled to the nearby forest on the Ostaš were severely mistreated.
Together with his governor Hans von Warnsdorf , Duke Heinrich d. Ä. , to which the neighboring county of Glatz and the neighboring lordships Nachod and Hummel belonged, at the request of Abbot Peter Braunau, the city of Braunau without a fight. It was occupied in 1469 by the captain of the Bohemian rival king Matthias Corvinus , Franz von Hag ( František z Hajé ). Its Hungarian mercenaries were still in the city they were harassing. Shortly afterwards, Heinrich d. Ä. also the town of Politz, which together with the Braunauer Land was under the rule of Heinrich the Elder until 1483. Ä. got. He incorporated Braunau and Politz with the consent of King Vladislav II of his county Glatz. In 1479 Heinrich d. Ä. Politz together with Braunau the Johann von Žeberk ( Jan ze Žeberka az Plané ) for his lifetime.
The city was also plundered and destroyed during the Thirty Years War . Under the Braunau abbot, Othmar Daniel Zinke , the monastery buildings were expanded and the facade of the monastery church redesigned according to plans by Kilian Ignaz Dienzenhofer . However, the monastery was abolished by Emperor Joseph II in 1785 as part of the Josephine reforms . The monastery church was rededicated as a parish church. From 1850 the place belonged to the judicial district Politz or to the later district Braunau .
The linen production and the associated linen markets were of economic importance. Textile production and mechanical engineering developed in the 20th century.
Community structure
The municipalities include Hlavňov ( Groß Labnay ), Hony ( Hutberg ), Pěkov ( Piekau ), Radešov ( Radeschau ) and Velká Ledhuje ( Groß Ledhuj ).
Town twinning
Attractions
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- The three-aisled monastery church of the Assumption of Mary was built in 1294. It burned down several times and was structurally changed. The early Gothic west portal richly decorated with plant motifs has been preserved from the time of construction . The baroque west facade was created by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer in 1723.
- Next to the church are the former monastery buildings .
- The town hall was baroque in the 18th century.
- Muzeum stavebnice Merkur , construction kit toy museum of the company Merkur.
- The City Theater Kolárovo Divadlo was built in 1939–1940 by the architect Čeněk Mužík in the functionalism style.
Personalities
- Jacob Arlet (1661–1702), Cistercian monk, painter and engraver
- Václav Vladivoj Tomek (1818–1905); Historian, spent his holidays in Politz and researched its history; from 1881 honorary citizen of Politz.
- Hanuš Wihan (1855–1920), cellist, professor for violoncello at the Prague Conservatory
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
- Stanislav Brandejs: Kniha o Polici after Metují a Policku . Police n.M. 1940
- Wenzel Wladiwoj Tomek : Oldest news about the dominions Braunau and Politz . Prague 1857
- Vers .: Příběhy kláštera a města Police nad Medhují . Prague 1881
- Ders .: Paměti z mého života . Prague 1904
- Lydia Baštecká: History of Václav Vladivoj Tomek a Policko . Police nad Metují 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod. Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , p. 45
- ↑ Laur. Wintera: The general peace of Braunau in 1477 . In: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen 37 (1899), p. 194
- ↑ Martin Šandera: Hanuš Welfl for varnsdorf. První zemský hejtman Kladského hrabstvi . In: 550 let Hrabství Kladského. 1459-2009 . Kladský sborník , Supplementum, vol. 6, Muzeum Podkrkonoší, Trutnov 2009, ISBN 978-80-903741-3-3 , pp. 110f.
- ↑ Martin Šandera: Jindřich I. Minsterberkský - První Hrabě Kladský a jeho majetková základna . In: Kladský sborník 6 (2004), p. 11
- ↑ "Muzeum Stavebince Merkur"