Vodňany
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Strakonice | ||||
| Area : | 3636 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 9 ' N , 14 ° 11' E | ||||
| Height: | 398 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 6,953 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 389 01 | ||||
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| Street: | Písek - Ceske Budejovice | ||||
| Railway connection: | Číčenice – Haidmühle | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 9 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Václav Heřman (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Náměstí Svobody 18/1 389 01 Vodňany |
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| Municipality number: | 551953 | ||||
| Website : | www.vodnany.eu | ||||
Vodňany [ ˈvɔdɲanɪ ] (German Wodnian ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 28 kilometers northwest of the city center of Budweis and belongs to the Okres Strakonice .
geography
Geographical location
Vodňany is located on the right bank of the Blanice in the north-west of the Budweiser Basin . There are large ponds in the north and east of the city. The route of the state road 20 / E 49 between Písek and Budweis runs east of Vodňany, from which state road 22 branches off to Strakonice northeast of Vodňany .
City structure
The city of Vodňany consists of the districts Čavyně ( Tschawin ), Hvožďany ( Hwoschdian ), Křtětice ( Kretietitz ), Pražák ( Praschak ), Radčice ( Ratschitz ), Újezd ( Großaujest ), Vodňanské Svobodné Hodidany Iň and Vodnianer Freňany II .
Neighboring communities
Neighboring towns are Křtětice and Radčice in the north, Milenovice and Čavyně in the northeast, Číčenice and Strpí in the east, Újezd, Hvožďany, Svatá Máří Magdaléna and Chelčice in the south, Stožice in the southwest, Pražák in the west and Krašlovice in the northwest.
history
At the transition from the 12th to the 13th century, gold soaps were operated on the Blanice. The fishing village of Vodna was built on the right bank of the river. The present-day town was probably built on the site of this settlement during the time of Ottokar II Přemysl . In 1327 Wilhelm von Landstein gave the right of patronage over the church of Wodnian to Schlägl Abbey on behalf of King John of Luxembourg . In 1336 Johann von Luxemburg granted Wodnian city rights. Together with Písek and Budweis , the royal city of Vodňany formed one of the centers of power of the Bohemian crown in southern Bohemia from 1400 onwards . During the Hussite Wars , Jan Žižka conquered the town in 1420 and, after cruel persecution of people of different faiths, made it a stronghold of the Taborites . In 1441, an epidemic called the plague broke out in Wodnian and killed a large part of the population.
In the course of the 15th century, more ponds were created and Vodňany became a center of fish farming in South Bohemia. After silver deposits were discovered in the hills of the Bohemian Forest foothills, the mining settlement Vodňanské Svobodné Hory was built southwest of the town on Svobodná hora (647 m). In 1547 Vodňany was elevated to a royal mountain town and received a coat of arms.
At the beginning of the Thirty Years War the town Vodňany in June 1619 after been battle of sablat - between the villages of upper and lower case Sablat at Wodnian- between the mercenaries of military leaders . Peter Ernst II of Mansfeld and Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy to the supremacy in South Bohemia plundered and devastated. In 1623 Field Marshal Don Baltasar von Marradas received it from Emperor Ferdinand II von Habsburg as a pledge and then property. The nephew Don Francisco de Marradas Count von Solent sold this in 1661, together with the rulership of Frauenberg on the Moldau, to Johann Adolf Reichsfürst zu Schwarzenberg . In the years 1722, 1757 and 1782 the city fires destroyed large parts of Vodňany and the city lost its importance. Due to the tolerance patents of the Austrian Emperor Josef II, the economic situation of the city improved after 1782 due to the influx of new citizens. When the city was expanded, the city gates were removed in the first half of the 19th century.
After the founding of Czechoslovakia , a medium fishing school was established in 1920. From 1939 to 1945 Wodnian belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . After the founding of the Czech Republic, Vodňany has been the seat of the Research Institute for Fisheries and Hydrobiology at the South Bohemian University in České Budějovice since 1993 .
Town twinning
- Aarwangen , Switzerland
- Oravský Podzámok , Slovakia
- Sieraków , Poland
- Wartberg ob der Aist , Austria
- Zlaté Hory , Czech Republic
Culture and sights
- Dean's Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, the building with a Gothic presbytery, which has been documented since 1317, was redesigned in neo-Gothic style between 1894 and 1897 according to plans by Josef Mocker . The painter Mikoláš Aleš took part in the renovation of the interior .
- Fountain in the market, originally baroque, rebuilt in 1928 with an allegorical statue of freedom (sculptor Josef Kvasnička)
- Fortifications and moats from the 15th century
- Hospital Church of Johannes the Baptist, mentioned in 1414, rebuilt in 1844, the cemetery was liquidated in the 1980s
- Former pharmacy on the market square, with a Renaissance attic, where the writer František Herites was born
- Municipal gallery and museum (1905) in the town hall on the market square (collections of pictures, statues, weapons, vessels, furniture and jewelry, Julius Zeyer's memorial room)
- Monument to Petr Chelčický in the Zeyer garden
- former synagogue . Wodnian / Wodnany had a Jewish community of traders who built a synagogue through the tolerance patents of the years 1782–1785 of Emperor Joseph II of Habsburg. This Israelite religious community ceased to exist when, according to the Munich Agreement in 1938, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia existed as an area of occupation of the German Reich until 1945. Today the branch of the city museum is housed there
- Jewish Cemetery
literature
- Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia. Volume Prachiner Kreis, Stadtgeschichte von Wodnian, 1840, available online
- Josef Schön: The royal city of Wodnian, Wodnian 1861
- Johanna von Herzogenberg : Between Danube and Moldau - Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest. The Mühlviertel and South Bohemia. Wodnian pages 152 and 153 in the section: From Passau to Prachatitz; Prestel Verlag Munich 1968
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622), Czech writer, composer and rector of Charles University in Prague
- František Herites (1851–1929), Czech writer
- Váša Příhoda (1900–1960), one of the greatest violinists of the first half of the 20th century. Was reburied from Vienna to Vodňany in June 2016.
Personalities associated with Vodňany
- Julius Zeyer , Czech writer lived in Vodňany from 1887 to 1899
