Lhenice

Lhenice ( German Elhenitz ) is a patch in the Czech Republic. It lies 23 kilometers west of the center of České Budějovice and belongs to Okres Prachatice.

Geography

Lhenice is located on the eastern foothills of the Bohemian Forest at the transition to Blanský. The village lies on the eastern slope of the Stráže ( 742 m) above the valley of the creek Netolický.

Neighboring towns are Hradce and Hrbov in the north, Brusna in the northeast, Horni Chrášťany in the east, Vodice and Třešňový Újezdec the southeast, Vadkov in the south, and Borovka Jáma in the southwest, and Mičovice Ratiborova Lhota in the west and Třebanice in the northwest.

History

Lhenice was first mentioned in 1283 as a possession of the monastery Sancta Corona. After the destruction of the monastery by the Hussites in 1420 Ulrich von Rosenberg received the entire possessions of the monastery by Emperor Sigismund as a pledge shaft. 1437 Sigismund pledged the villages Lhenice, Újezdec, Vadkov and Vodice to the royal city of Tábor. 1544 Lhenice was raised by Ferdinand I to the town. The rights to run a coat of arms, for sealing with green wax and to hold an eight -day annual fair of St. Giles, as well as a weekly market the place were awarded.

Because of the participation in the uprising of 1547, the goods of Tábor were confiscated and Lhenice with the villages Újezdec, Vadkov and Vodice to the guardian of the children Jost III. Rosenberg, Albrecht von Guttenstein on Žirovnice sold. After Wilhelm von Rosenberg was declared of age in 1551, he received transfer ownership. His brother and successor of Peter Wok von Rosenberg had to leave because of debt Lhenice 1600 his accountant Martin Grejnar Veveří and Mysletín. After the Rosenbergs Lhenice had triggered again in 1605, he ordered the town to the rule Libějovice. After the death of Peter Wok inherited in 1611 his nephew Johann Zrinski by Seryn Libějovice. Zrinski passed away but already in 1612 it inherited from Peter Swan Mountain. He closed Libějovice to the rule Netolice. As one of the leaders of the uprising of the Estates his property was confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain, and the rule Netolice 1622 passed to Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. As 1717 Eggenberger became extinct in the male line, Lhenice fell to the Schwarzenberg.

After the replacement of patrimonial Lhenice in 1848 for the independent market town in the district of Prachin. 1855 was the place to the recently completed District Netolice, the 1868 connected to the district Prachatice. Since 2006 Lhenice is a Městys again.

Lhenice is surrounded by large cherry orchards. Because of the traditional fruit crops the place was nicknamed the garden of South Bohemia.

Community structure

The patch Lhenice consists of the districts Dolni Chrášťany ( Untergroschum ) Hoříkovice ( Horschikowitz ), Horni Chrášťany ( Obergroschum ) Hrbov ( Herbes ), Lhenice ( Elhenitz ) Třebanice ( Tschebanitz ) Třešňový Újezdec ( Wagnern ) Vadkov ( Wagau ) and Vodice ( Woditz ) and the local situation Brusna.

Attractions

Church of St. James, built in the 14th century
Mansion, the former fortress was built in the early 17th century by Martin Grejnar to its seat
Old Town Hall, built in 1814-1815 by the Bohemian folk Baroque building now serves as a library
Created statue of St. Adalbert, on the fountain in the market in 1802
John the Baptist Cemetery with the Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk
Stations of the Cross, created 1865-1866
Lhenicer Linde, of the 25 high tree with a trunk circumference of 580 cm has an age of 270 years

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Elhenický Alois (1844-1915), architect and mayor of Smíchov
Lubor Friedrich ( * 1923), puppet designer and prop master
Jaroslav Hájek (* 1941), cellist
Kössl Theodor (1886-1969), composer
January Mayer- King Rider (1824-1917), Bergrechtler, nonfiction author and Councilor
Bohuslav Zahradník (1947-1987), clarinetist

Branald Adolf (1910-2008), the writer was appointed honorary citizen of Lhenice on May 8, 1965
Jindřich Jindřich (1876-1967), composer and folk art collectors, worked from 1896 as a music teacher at the school in Lhenice

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