Jankov (Benešov District)

Yankov ( German Jankau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers south-west of Vlašim and belongs to Okres Benešov.

Geography

Yankov is located at the foot of Chrastišov in a world characterized by ponds and hills landscape of the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands in the upper reaches of the Chotýšanka. To the west rises the 688 m high Džbány, according to which the micro-region Džbány its name.

Neighboring towns are Jankovská Lhota and Jitra in the north, Skrýšov in the northeast, Hrzín in the east, and Habrovka Ratměřice the southeast, Nosákov, Královna and Vlčkovice in the south, Broumovice the southwest, Otradovice in the west and Kaliště in the northwest.

History

The first mention of Yankov took place in 1352. Yankov was located in a stronghold, and since the 14th century is also a parish church detectable. Until the beginning of the 15th century, the place was owned by the noble family of Vlašim. To 1418 acquired the Talmberger Yankov and built a city from. 1543 Yankov was designated spots

On March 6, 1645 Battle of Jankau between Swedish and Imperial troops took place during the Thirty Years War east of the village in the terrain between Yankov, Skrýšov, Ratměřice and Nosákov place in which the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson of Melchior Count of Hatzfeld and Johann Graf defeated by idols out Imperial and subsequently ravaged the country.

After his son William Francis died in 1702 at the age of 25 years, Rudolf von Talmberg sold the reign Yankov with the market town of Johann Anton Yankov Kořenský of Terešov. In the years following the celebrations was without form, and Kořenský took his seat in the Ratměřice castle. His four sons sold in 1719, the combined rule Ratměřice - Yankov with the locks Yankov and Ratměřice to Jiří Vojický Nová Ves. 1785 began the demolition of the old parties.

1869, the village had 670 inhabitants Yankov, in the area of ​​today's community lived at this time a total of 2076 people.

Yankov was honored in 2006 as the Village of the Year in Středočeský kraj.

Community structure

The community Yankov consists of the districts Bedřichovice ( Friedrichsau ) Čečkov ( Tschetschkow ) Čestín ( Czech Estin ), Yankov ( Jankau ) Jankovská Lhota ( Lhota b. Jankau ) Nosákov ( Nosakow ) Odlochovice ( Wodlochowitz ) Otradovice ( Otradowitz ), Pičín ( Pitschin ) and Podolí ( Podol ).

Attractions

• Square with 80 m length and 45 m width
• Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Romanesque building from the 13th century
• Monument at the site of the surrender of the Imperial troops at the Battle of Jankau, southeast of the village at Habrovka
• Chapel of St. Peter and Paul in Otradovice

Sons and daughters of the town

• Egon Fuchs (1886-1958), baritone and professor at the Prague Conservatory
• Josef Šusta (1835-1914), fish farmers and fish bergischer black champion in Trebon
• Mařenka Zieglerova (1881-1966), Czech actress and operetta singer