Veltruby

Veltruby
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Středočeský kraj
District :	Kolín
Area :	938 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 4 ' N , 15 ° 11' E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '14 " N , 15 ° 11' 4" E
Height:	193 m nm
Residents :	1,420 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	280 02
License plate :	S.
traffic
Street:	Kolín - Velký Osek
Railway connection:	Znojmo – Nymburk
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Jiří Hůla (as of 2019)
Address:	Sportovní 239 ; 280 02 Veltruby
Municipality number:	533858
Website :	www.veltruby.cz

Church of the Assumption

Wayside shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows and Veltruber Linde

Niche chapel of St. John of Nepomuk

Veltrubský luh

Veltruby ( German Weltrub ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers north of the city center of Kolín and belongs to the Okres Kolín .

geography

Veltruby is located on the right side of the Elbe in the Středolabské tabule (table land on the middle Elbe ). The village lies in the Elbe meadows on an oxbow lake of the river. The Znojmo – Nymburk railway runs to the east , behind which the Chotule rises (206 m nm). In the northeast the village is bypassed by the state road II / 125 between Kolín and Libice nad Cidlinou . The TPCA site extends two and a half kilometers to the east . To the west lies the alluvial forest area Veltrubský luh.

Neighboring towns are Velký Osek in the north, Bačov, Karolín , Volárna , Jestřabí Lhota and Němčice in the northeast, Eleonorov , Býchory and Ovčáry in the east, Františkov and Sendražice in the southeast, Hradišťko I and Klavary in the south, Jezeřany , Ohrada and Nová Ves in the south-west , Horní Nouzov and Dolní Nouzov in the west and Klipec, Pňov-Předhradí and Oseček in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds prove an early settlement of the area. During field work in 1991 a large number of ceramic remains of the Latène culture were found in the center of the village on the old Elbe meander . Century BC Come from BC.

Veltruby and Jezeřany were probably founded in the 12th century. At that time the Elbe had a different course and meandered 600 m east of its current river bed. Veltruby arose on the right of the river, the church village Jezeřany on the opposite bank.

Vejtruby was first mentioned in writing in 1371 as the property of Jenek von Vejtrub, who also used the Sendražic title from 1383 to 1387 . The next owner was Markvart Chudý from Vejtrub between 1393 and 1406. The Zeman of Vejtrub were related to the people of Jezeřan and Sendražic; they all had a boat in their coat of arms. In the 15th century the village of Jezeřany became extinct, only the church remained. The Jezeřany Manor was added to the Veltruby Manor in the 16th century. The first written record of the festivals Vejtruby took place in 1543 as the seat of Petr Vejtrubský of Vejtrub; with his death in 1556 the male line died out. His widow Johanna Veltrubská von Tamfeld bequeathed the entire property to her granddaughter Johanka Dašická von Barchov in 1570. This was initially with Jaroslav Borsita the Elder. Ä. von Martinic , then married to Albrecht Leskovec von Lestkov and finally to Johann Wenzel von Popel von Lobkowitz auf Dux and Oberleutensdorf . When Johanka Dašická von Barchov died in 1592, she bequeathed her goods Veltruby and Běrunice to her children from their first two marriages. In 1607, their son Jaroslav Borsita von Martinic, together with his sister Isolde and her husband Friedrich von Donin, sold both goods to Adam the Elder. J. von Waldstein on Komorní Hrádek and Dymokury . Waldstein connected both goods to the Dymokury rule, which he sold to Albrecht Jan Smiřický von Smiřice in 1614 . After his death in 1618 his sister Margareta ( Markéta ), married Slawata , inherited Dymokury, but lost the rule after the battle of the White Mountain , since all Smiřický estates were confiscated by the emperor. Albrecht Wallenstein acquired the property in 1620, but sold it a year later to Johann Eusebius Khuen von Belasi , who was followed in 1625 by his daughter Franziska Pálffy von Plassenstein. Field Marshal Wilhelm Lamboy von Cortesheim acquired it from her . His son Johann de Lamboy separated the Veltruby estate from the Dymokury estate in 1666 and sold it to Adam Jaroslav Schofmann from Hemrles on Konárovice . In 1676 Wenceslaus Georg Holický von Sternberg bought the Veltruby manor and connected it with his Radovesnice manor . He drained the swamps and resettled the village of Jezeřany, and he also renewed the brewery and the distillery. Jezeřany has been considered part of Veltruby since then. In the middle of the 18th century Marie Maximiliane von Schaffgotsch owned the Radovesnice estate with Veltruby; she sold it in 1759 for 91,000 guilders to the Prague Castle Count Philipp Krakovský von Kolowrat . His son Leopold Wilhelm sold Radovesnice with Veltruby in 1795 to Johann Wenzel von Rummerskirch, who sold the goods to Franz Xaver von Astfeld in 1805. Two years later, Johann Nepomuk Schmidtgräbner von Lustenegg acquired the goods; The next owner was Karl Graf von Rey from 1816, he sold Radovesnice with Veltruby on April 8, 1821 for 260,000 guilders to Jakob Alexander von Pourtalès-Gorgier . In 1841 the lord of the church, Albert Steiger von Münsingen, had the old Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Jezeřany demolished.

In 1843 the in included Kauřimer county located landtäflige Good Radowesnitz including Weltrub a floor space of approximately 1,591 yoke, of which about 876 accounted yoke upon the good Weltrub. The Přerow and Mogupka forest stretches belonging to the Weltrub estate had an area of 200 yokes. The village of Weltrub or Weltruby , located on a small tributary of the Elbe, consisted of 101 houses in which 825 people, including four Protestant (AB) and one Jewish families, lived. The population was Czech-speaking, the main source of income was agriculture. The local church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the locality and the school were under the patronage of the manor. There was also an authoritarian farm with a sheep farm, a Dominikales Bräuhaus, a Dominikales brandy house, a Dominikales forester's house and an inn. A limestone quarry was operated at Weltrub . World treasure was the parish for Groß-Wosek and Hradischko ; the place of office was Radowesnitz. Between 1843 and 1846, halfway between Jezeřany and Weltrub, the new church, dedicated to the Assumption, was built. Until the middle of the 19th century, world rubbish remained subject to the Radowesnitz estate and world rubbish.

After the abolition of patrimonial Veltruby formed from 1849 with the district V Domkách a municipality in the judicial district of Kolin . From 1868 the village belonged to the Kolin District . In 1869 Veltruby had 704 inhabitants and consisted of 106 houses. Between 1869 the Austrian Northwest Railway was laid east of Veltruby . In the second half of the 19th century the village was enlarged; A new settlement was built around the church, and there was also development along the road to the train station. In 1900 there were 1009 people in Veltruby, in 1910 it was 1090. In 1930 Veltruby had 1047 inhabitants and consisted of 225 houses. In 1961 Hradišťko I was incorporated . On July 1, 1968, Hradišťko I became independent again and was incorporated again on January 1, 1980. In the 2001 census there were 1242 people in the 450 houses in the municipality, 917 of which were in the Veltruby district (329 houses) and 325 in Hradišťko I (121 houses). The community has had a coat of arms and a banner since 2009.

Community structure

The municipality of Veltruby consists of the districts Hradišťko I ( Hradischko ) and Veltruby ( Welttrub ), which also form cadastral districts. The Jezeřany and Zájezeří locations also belong to Veltruby.

Attractions

Church of the Assumption of Mary, the late Classicist building was built in 1843 and was consecrated in 1846 by the archbishop vicar Josef Balatý.

Former rectory, built 1897–1898 according to plans by the Kolín master builder Jan Sklenář. In 2014, it was converted into a residential building, with the outer skin being redesigned and decorative elements removed.

Wayside shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, erected in 1803. In 1837 it was knocked over and in 1838 it was rebuilt and consecrated. It stands on a separate pedestal on a street pillar. In the 1990s, it was not properly repaired.

Niche chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, on the village square, built at the beginning of the 19th century.

Niche chapel of St. Adalbert, on the outskirts of Kolín, built at the end of the 18th century.

Baroque statue of St. Wenceslas, the sandstone figure created in the 1740s, was originally in the Jezeřany cemetery. On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the death of St. Wenceslas it was moved to its current location in front of the church in 1928.

Memorial stone for those who fell in both world wars, in the town center, unveiled in the 1920s and supplemented after 1945.

Baroque attic of the Veltruby Meierhof, built in the 18th century

Bell tree of the Hussite church in the center of the village, built in 1937. It consists of two roofed concrete pillars.

Veltrubský luh nature reserve, the alluvial forest area on the Elbe with numerous branches of the river, has been under protection since 1985 on an area of 98 ha.

Tonice-Bezedná nature reserve

Vodníka Jezeráčka nature trail , it leads around the pond of the old Elbe in the center of the village

Veltrubská lípa ( Veltrubská lípa ), the 16 m high winter linden tree planted around 1700 has a trunk circumference of 3.67 m.

Slavic castle site Svatovík near Hradišťko I.

literature

Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 110

Web links

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.uir.cz/obec/533858/Veltruby

[2] Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

[3] Chronicle of Běrunice

[4] Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 12 Kauřimer Kreis, 1844 pp. 215–218

[5] ttp://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/533858/Obec-Veltruby

[6] ttp://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/533858/Obec-Veltruby

[7] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/kostel-nanebevzeti-panny-marie

[8] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/fara-byvala

[9] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/kaplicka-sv-jana-nepomuckeho

[10] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/kaplicka-sv-vojtecha

[11] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/socha-sv-vaclava

[12] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/pamatnik-padlym-v-1-a-2-svetove-valce

[13] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/zvonicka

[14] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/veltrubsky-luh-pr

[15] ttps://www.cestyapamatky.cz/kolinsko/veltruby/veltrubska-lipa