Křepenice

Křepenice ( German Křepenitz ) is a village in Příbram in the Czech Republic. It is 25 kilometers northeast of Pribram.

Geography

Křepenice lies in the valley of the Vltava River. Neighboring towns are Hrazany and Radíč in the northeast, Nalžovice in the east, in the southeast Sedlčany, Dublovice and Lichovy in the south and Zvirotice in the southwest. To the north lie the Drbákov - Albert rocks.

History

Křepenice was first mentioned in 1045 in a document of the Bohemian princes Břetislav. It first belonged to Kamýk. 1322 gave King John of Luxembourg Křepenice the Hermann von Miličín from which it came to 1352, the Rosenbergs, who combined it with their rule Sedlčany. 1580 about Wilhelm von Rosenberg Sedlčany and Křepenice his economic managers and dike builder Jakob Krcin of Jelčany. He put on the ponds and Návesník Nepřízeň and built a castle in 1584, which he called " Novy Hradek Krčínov " and on which he lived from 1590 to 1597. After he died in 1604 without male issue, Křepenice coincided with the reign Sedlčany to Peter Wok von Rosenberg, who sold it to Zdenko Adalbert Popel von Lobkowitz. He closed Křepenice to his rule Vysoký Chlumec. Other owners were the princes of Schwarzenberg and from 1933 Rudolf Chodounsky. In 1941 the seizure of the castle by the Nazis, who built the north of Křepenice a concentration camp. After the takeover of power by the communists in 1948 the land ownership of the socialist farm Jednotné was zemědělské družstvo transferred. After the political changes of 1989, the castle was restituted to the Chodounsky family.

Attractions

• Nový hrádek Krčínov