Čáslav

Čáslav ( German Tschaslau or Czaslau ) is a town in Bohemia. It belongs to the Okres Kutná Hora in Středočeský kraj (Czech Republic).

History

The town was elevated in 1260 to the royal city and was in the 15th century headquarters of the Hussites. Here was deposed in 1421 in the Peter and Paul's church in the village of the reigning emperor Sigismund as king of Bohemia and declared persona non grata. In the same church is, as tradition reports, 1424 Jan Žižka have his final resting place. A portion of a skull, which is attributed to him is on display at City Hall. In Čáslav worked among other things, Matthew Ulický as a deacon, who was later executed as a Protestant martyr. As of 1850, the city became the seat of a district court was ( Judicial District Caslau ).

Twinning

• Opfikon, Switzerland

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Milan Cabrnoch (* 1962), politician
• František Josef DUSÍK (also Dussik, Dusík, Franz Benedict or Francesco Cormundi ), Composer
• Jan Ladislav Dusík, composer
• Miloš Forman, director, actor and screenwriter
• Ludmila Formanová, track and field athlete
• Karel Jarolím, football player and coach
• David Jarolím, football player
• Karl Korinek, union leaders in the Habsburg State
• Philipp Maximilian Opiz, botanist
• Josef Svoboda, stage
• January Vlasák, actor

The place looked and lived

January Karafiát, Czech minister of the Czech Protestant church brother and writer from 1872 to 1873 at the evangelical seminary administrator