Vysoké Veselí
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Jičín | ||||
| Area : | 933 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 20 ' N , 15 ° 26' E | ||||
| Height: | 254 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 865 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 507 03 | ||||
| License plate : | H | ||||
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| Street: | Jičín - Smidary | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 2 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Luboš Holman (as of 2020) | ||||
| Address: | Mírové náměstí 9 507 03 Vysoké Veselí |
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| Municipality number: | 573809 | ||||
| Website : | www.vysokeveseli.cz | ||||
Vysoké Veselí (German Hochwessely , also Hoch Wessely , Hochwesseln , Hohen Wessely ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 13 kilometers southeast of Jičín and belongs to the Okres Jičín .
geography
Vysoké Veselí is located on the left bank of the Cidlina on the East Bohemian Table. To the west of the city is the Velkoveselký rybník pond and the smaller Šmejkal on the south-eastern outskirts. In the southeast, in the Veselský les forest, the hill "U Liščích děr" (286 m) rises.
Neighboring towns are Dolní Hradišťko, Hradišťko, Veselská Lhota and Stříbrnice in the north, Chomutičky and Nevratice in the Northeast, Stare Smrkovice the east, Chotělice the southeast, Hrobičany and Velešice in the south, Sběř and Kozojedy in the southwest, Volanice the west and Novy Dvur and Vlhošť in Northwest.
history
Veselí was probably founded before the end of the 13th century as one of the Wartenbergs' centers in north-east Bohemia. On the hilltop above the Cidlina a great festival was built and the village below it. From 1283 the goods belonged to Beneš I von Wartenberg, he was followed between 1297 and 1312 by Beneš II, who got the title of Weselí and Wartenberg . It is believed that Veselí received town rights before Nový Bydžov was founded. The citizen and councilor Conrad de Wesel in Nový Bydžov can be traced back to 1311 . When Beneš II. Son Ješek died in 1332, the property was divided. In addition to the fortress and a forecourt, the town of Veselí and the villages of Vlhošť, Hrobičany and Sběř belonged to the new rule Veselí . The parish church of St. Nicholas was first mentioned in 1335. At that time, Veselí was next to Nový Chlumec , Hradišťko and Žiželice one of the four media towns that were located around the royal town of Nový Bydžov in the Cidlina area. From 1361 Beneš III. Wartenberg owner of Veselí. He was followed in 1385 by Peter von Wartenberg and after him by Vincent von Wartenberg . In 1425 the Hussites invaded Veselí and sacked the town. In the same year Heinrich von Wartenberg became the owner of Veselí, and in 1434 he bequeathed the Veliš , Jičín , Brada , Veselí, Nový Bydžov and Hradišťko manors to his aunt Machna. With her in 1438 the line of the Wartenbergs from Veselí went out and the property fell to Hašek von Waldstein .
Subsequently, the Veselí Fortress became the administrative center of large estates in the area. Before 1522 Nikolaus the Elder belonged to the following owners. Ä. Karlík von Nežetice and from 1533 the Bořek Dohalský family from Dohalice. At that time, in addition to the Vorwerk and the town, the villages Velešice, Hrobičany and Sběř belonged to the fortress. In 1544 Nikolaus Bořek bought Vrbice , Veselská Lhota and part of Hradíšťko. In 1577 Veselí burned down including the church and rectory. The rectory was not rebuilt and between 1577 and 1840 Veselí was parish in Velešice, where the Bořek Dohalský family had their family burial place. In 1580 Rudolf II granted at the request of Jan Bořek Dohalský Veselí the right to keep a coat of arms and to hold an annual cattle market. In 1616 an inheritance was divided among the descendants of Jaroslav Bořek Dohalský and in 1627 Jan Bedřich Bořek Dohalský Veselí sold to Albrecht von Waldstein . In 1633 troops from the Electorate of Saxony plundered the town. After Wallenstein's murder, Hermann Nidrum von Schardeck received the rule of Veselí. There is evidence of a municipal brewery since 1638. In the berní rula of 1654 42 properties are identified for Veselí, eleven of which were desolate. In the same year the Dohalský von Dohalice again became owners of Wessely. After it was sold to the Záruba von Hustířan on Čistá, the fortress lost its function as a manor in 1672 and was left to decay. In 1689 Josef von Sternberg bought the Wessely estate on Bechyně and in 1715 it fell to Johann Leopold von Paar through marriage. At that time, a stately farmyard, a three-wheel mill and a wine distillery belonged to the castle. In the 18th century the town was called Červené Veselí / Roth Wessely . The Counts von Paar had the fortress rebuilt from 1745 into a baroque palace, which, however, only served as the seat of the lordly officials and as a warehouse.
In 1747 the town had 326 inhabitants. In the same year 56 houses of the 91 houses including the manorial wine distillery, the town brewery and the town hall with the clock tower burned down. During the reconstruction, mostly wooden buildings were again built. A stately brewery was built on the Lesser Town. In 1790 Roth Wessely had grown to 111 houses. In the 19th century the name Hoch Wessely caught on. Matěj Buva founded a chicory factory in Hoch Wessely in 1825 . Antonín Kliment later set up another chicory factory. In 1835 another major city fire broke out, as a result of which brick houses were built.
After the abolition of patrimonial Vysoké Veselí / Hochwessely formed from 1850 a market town in the Nový Bydžov district . In 1869 it was planned to build a joint brewery west of the town by the pond Lhotak. However, it failed due to a lack of capital. In 1870 the old brewery ceased operations. In 1871, Karl von Paar had a large sugar factory built at the intended brewery site. In 1871, Paar unsuccessfully asked the Bohemian Central Railway for support for the construction of a railway Kopidlno- Hochwessely- Jitschin . The same thing happened in 1879 with the municipal council with their request for the establishment of a local railway from Smidary via Chotělický and through the Veselský les to Vysoké Veselí, which should end above the cemetery. Finally, the Austrian Local Railway Company (ÖLEG) began building the Smidar – Hochwessely local railway . In November 1881 the railway, which ended west of the town at the court and the sugar factory, was inaugurated. This also made the sugar factory profitable, which had previously been subsidized by Paar. In 1880 the town reached the highest population in its history with 1490 inhabitants. On May 5, 1908, Emperor Franz Joseph I raised Vysoké Veselý to town.
The Buva chicory factory was converted into a public limited company in 1911. In 1913 the sugar factory was expanded to include a pulp drying plant. In 1921 the chicory factories in Vysoké Veselí and Kolín were merged. In 1924 the chicory factory stopped production and the buildings were used as granaries. After the sugar factory was sold to the Prague Creditbank, from 1927 the sugar factory only processed raw materials from the refinery in Skřivany and was shut down and demolished in 1932. In 1930 there were 1220 people in Vysoké Veselý. Between 1939 and 1950 the Lhotak pond was expanded to Velkoveselký rybník as a flood reservoir for the Cidlina. Veselská Lhota was incorporated in 1947. In 1948, Vysoké Veselí, together with Smidary and Žiželice, were deprived of their town charter. Since 1961 Vysoké Veselí belongs to the Okres Jičín. The historical chicory ark was destroyed by fire in 1962. In 1970 the population reached a low point of 757. The Smidary - Vysoké Veselí railway line was closed in 1976. In 1974 the Cidlina was regulated between Veselská Lhota and Vysoké Veselí. This continued to Smidary in the 1980s, so that the meanders and small tributaries disappeared. Since June 22, 2007 Vysoké Veselí is a city again.
City structure
The town of Vysoké Veselí consists of the districts Vysoké Veselí ( Hochwessely ) and Veselská Lhota ( Lhota Weselska ).
Attractions
- Church of St. Nikolaus von Tolentino, the originally baroque building was built next to the castle in 1770 and was connected to it by a bridge. After the fire of 1835, it was rebuilt in the Empire style.
- Vysoké Veselí Castle, the original fortress was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in 1585 and a stone relief with the coats of arms of the owners Jan Bořek Dohalský from Dohalice and Barbara from Solopysk was added. In 1745 it was converted into a baroque palace and a palace garden was created in place of the fortifications. After the fire of 1835, it was rebuilt in Empire style under Karl von Paar. In 1950 the castle was converted into a school. Regardless of their value as a monument, partition walls were drawn in and some of the historical windows were replaced by modern standard types. Finally, between 1967 and 1969, the facade and other windows were "modernized".
- Renaissance corner house from 1586, on the market
- Marien pillar at the church, erected in 1869 on the market. There she was eliminated in the 1970s and transferred to the church in 1977
- Statue of the Virgin Mary on the Neustadt, the figure created in 1808 was moved from the market to its current location in 1869
- Statue of St. Wenzel, on the way to the castle, donated in 1807 by the businessman Christoph Erban
- Statue of John the Baptist, between the Cidlina Bridge and the Syringe House, erected in 1761
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, created 1777
- Veselský háj a rybník Smrkovák nature reserve , southeast of the city
sons and daughters of the town
- Václav Šimerka (1819–1887), Bohemian mathematician