Dolnà Kralovice
Dolni Kralovice ( German Unterkralowitz, even under Kralowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 16 km north-west of Humpolec and belongs to Okres Benešov.
Originally Dolni Kralovice was a town in the valley of the Želivka. The place was abandoned by the 1963 decision to construct the dam Švihov and southeast recreated elsewhere. The old Dolni Kralovice, the 150 was near the present bridge of the main road, was demolished in 1974 and sank in 1975 in the reservoir.
Geography
The place is in Unterkralowitzer basin on the northwest slope of the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands in the headwaters of Zahrádčický creek. In the north, the Želivkatal extends to the drinking water reservoir Švihov. Four kilometers west passes the route of the D1 motorway.
Neighboring towns are Zahrádčice in the northeast, Marti Nice u Dolních Kralovic and Šetějovice in the east, SNET and Blažejovice the southeast, Vraždovy Lhotice and Vítonice in the south, Tomice in the west, and Brzotice Střítež in the northwest.
History
Kralowicz made according to old traditions since 1088, the center of the parish of Queen Swatawa, between the rivers Želivka and Goldbach ( Martinický Brook ) ran. The area flowed into the built of their chapters on the Vyšehrad. First documented Kralonicz was in 1352 in the certificate of ownership listed by Charles IV.
In place since the 15th century there was a Jewish community that built a cemetery and a hundred years later, the synagogue at this time.
1436 Emperor Sigismund to place the knight Oldrich Močihub. Next owner was Nicholas Trček of Lipa, whose descendants possessed Dolni Kralovice to 1547.
Other owners were the Voračický z Paběnic and since the end of the 17th century the Counts Trautson to Falkenstein. 1766 acquired Karl Joseph of Palm Gundelfingen the rule. 1844 William bought Vincenz Prince of Auersperg Unterkralowitz. After the extinction of the male line in the member count Trauttmansdorff 1942 inherited the castle, which they owned until 1945.
After the abolition of patrimonial Unterkralowitz in 1850 the seat of a district court in the political district Ledetsch at the Sasau. The patch was the center of a rural area with small farming villages. 1902, the local train from Beneschau was extended after Wlaschim to Unterkralowitz.
The synagogue was used from 1951 to 1969 of the Hussite Church as a temple. In 1960, the annexation of the neighboring village Horni Kralovice. Serious consequences for the place had in 1963 resolved construction of a dam on the Želivka for drinking water supply of the capital Prague. At the end of the 1960s, the construction of a new settlement Dolni Kralovice began on the northern outskirts of Vraždovy Lhotice. In August 1974, the setting of the railway passenger traffic between Trhový Štěpánov and Dolni Kralovice was. Between 1974 and 1975 the old Dolni Kralovice was razed to the ground along with Horni Kralovice, Příseka, Libčice and Zahrádka and then flooded by the reservoir Švihov.
Cultural monuments
Prior to the flooding, the most valuable Jewish grave stelae were brought to Trhový Štěpánov. The statue of the Virgin Mary was erected in the new location.
Are immersed in the reservoir
- The Church of St John the Baptist
- The Dolni Kralovice Castle
- The Jewish cemetery
Community structure
The village Dolni Kralovice consists of the districts Dolni Kralovice ( Unterkralowitz ), Marti Nice u Dolních Kralovic ( New Martinitz ) Střítež ( Stritesch ) Vraždovy Lhotice ( Lhotitz ) and Zahrádčice ( Sachratschitz ). The municipality also includes the corridors of the lost in the lake village Libčice ( Lipschitz ).
Sons and daughters of the town
- Josef Kysela (1833-1904), tenor and theater director
- Jaroslav Hlava (1853-1924), pathologist and author
Trivia
- The Austrian writer Manfred Chobot published his 2009 novel Journey to the Unterkralowitz.