Plav (České Budějovice District)
Plav (in Czech until 1924: Plavo or Plava; German Plaben ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers east of Kamenný Újezd both sides of the Malse.
History
According to legend, was stranded on the Maltsch three brothers here. This decided to stay and built a house, which they called Plavo ( raft ).
The first mention of Plavo comes on 4 June 1262 as Vok de Rosenberg in his will the village to the monastery Hohenfurth zusprach. 1273 exchanged Přemysl Otakar II with the monastery the place to Rožnov and handed him the town meanwhile he founded Budweis. His son Wenceslas II on suitable Plavo 1292 the monastery back.
Since 1400 Plavo had brewing right that often led to feuds with the city of Ceske Budejovice. The monastery, built in 1450 a mill. 1489 was the village of 16 farmsteads. In 1571 a major fire destroyed the mill and the whole village.
In the Napoleonic Wars in Plavo a smaller department of the French was quartered.
1892 began the construction of a school building from donations of the inhabitants, was completed in 1894. Between 1895 and 1896 the Maltsch was regulated, while a cast-iron footbridge that rests on stone piers, built over the river. As the river the rafting of timber from the forests Bucquoyschen served at Gratzen to Budweis, a weir was built with projecting raft rake and a raft lock. The management of the project has held the Counts - bucquoysche engineer Augustin Prochaska.
1905, construction began on the road to Budweis, which was finished in 1907. In this period also saw the incorporation of the surrounding settlements. Between 1912 and 1913 a new vault of reinforced concrete bridge over the river and a mill race was born.
1913 lived in the community Plavo 641 inhabitants, without exception belonged to the Czech minority. These included the villages Plavo with 256 inhabitants, Heřmaň with 285 inhabitants and Vidov in which 89 people lived. On November 17, 1924, the name of the village in Plav has changed.
In 1979, the school was closed, the building has since been redeveloped to a senior center. Since 1990, Plav, which was incorporated to Doudleby since 1976, again independently.
In 2002 the village on August 7 and 8, and August 12 and 13 was strongly affected by the worst floods in its history. The Maltsch reached a water level of 1.80 m.
Attractions
- Historical memory house, probably built during the late Renaissance
- In the nearby woods, there are several pagan tombs. The grave mounds were investigated archaeologically in the 19th century and the finds are now housed in the South Bohemian Museum ( Muzeum Jihočeský ). A cassette with earth of the graves was annexed on 16 May in 1868 foundation stone of the Prague National Theatre.
- Cast iron bridge and raft equipment at the Maltsch
- Erected a statue of St. John of Nepomuk on the Maltsch, 1882 on behalf of the Director Krauskop the Counts - bucquoyschen administration Gratzen as a symbol to move away from flood waters