Sezimovo ÚstÃ
Sezimovo Ústí ( German Alttabor ) is a town with 7302 inhabitants (2007 ) in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers south of Tábor right of Lainsitz and belongs to Okres Tábor. The land area is 953 ha
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Geography
The city is located in 399 m asl creek at the mouth of Kozský in the Lainsitz at the junction of Wittingauer pan for Wlaschimer hills. By Sezimovo Ústí the railroad as well as the European Route 55 / State Road 3 leads from Tábor Soběslav. One and a half kilometers east of the city lies on the valley of the creek Kozský the ruins of the castle Kozi Hradek. To the northeast is the airfield Tabor ( CTAL ).
Neighboring towns are Tábor in the north, Zárybničná Lhota in the northeast, Cerveny Dvůr and Turovec in the east, Plana nad Lužnicí in the south, Lhota Samoty and Zhoř u Tábora the southwest, Radimovice u Želče, Dolejšův Dvůr and Větrovy in the west and Čelkovice in the northwest.
History
Old city
The first written mention of the village was carried out under the name de Auzt in 1262 as a convent of Dominican creek was called at the mouth of Kozský in the Lainsitz. From 1322 the town was in the possession of the Sezema de Vsk family of the family of Witigonen. From 1419 the nickname Ústí Sezemova is preserved. Ústí had developed into a small town in serfdom, in the next to the monastery Auzt still a Roman Catholic church, a parish, the manor and a poor hospital have emerged. On the left Lainsitzufer the Neustadt Ústí ( Nové Město ) developed. To town were two suburbs.
Since 1377, the easternmost castle Kozi Hradek can be detected, as its first owner Vlcek z Kozího was called. The further history of the castle and town is closely linked. The owner of the domain Jan and Ctibor z Ústí granted from 1413 to 1414 Jan Hus shelter, which then traveled to the castle Krakovec. The Kozi Hradek castle was burned down in 1438 by Albrecht II and remained desolate.
The city became a center of the Hussite movement, which rallied late February 1420 here. Because of the very unfavorable strategic position of Ústí the Hussites attracted little later to the north on the old castle site of Mount Tabor, where they founded the new city of Tábor. The old town Sezimovo Ústí was lit and burned. Later, a Vorwerk was built on the deserted village, which was named Stary Tábor in the 17th century.
New city
Between 1827 and 1828 the cantor Antonín Svatoš from Tábor let reinvest at the site of the old town a settlement that first bore the name Svatošov. It grew over the years to become a city and given its original name Sezimovo Ústí.
With the construction of railroads from Prague to Ceske Budejovice and Vienna Sezimovo Ústí received in 1869 a railway connection. At this time lived 946 people in Sezimovo Ústí.
In the 1930s, the city became larger and there was southeast to the path of the current district Sezimovo Ústí II, which is more like a suburban campsite resembled in its early years. Among the frequent guests in the city belonged to the Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš and his brother Vojta Benes, in the Soukenický were like Mlýn guest. President Beneš had built 1930-1931 by architect Petr Kropáček creek a prestigious villa in Provence style at the mouth of Kozský in the Lainsitz.
From 1939, the settlement was Sezimovo Ústí II in the corridors of the former municipal court Velky Dvůr by the company Bata.
The largest population in its history had Sezimovo Ústí in 1980, with 8885 inhabitants.
Attractions
- Kozi Hradek Castle
- Natural Monument Luna
- Edvard Beneš villa with memorial
- Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built in 1835
Boroughs
For the city of Ústí Sezimovo no districts are reported. It consists of the local documents Sezimovo Ústí I and II
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Václav Kaplický (1895-1982), poet
- Jiří Kaloč ( born 1943 ), academic painter
- František Němec (* 1943), actor
In the city worked and lived
- Jan Hus lived from 1413 to 1414 on Kozi Hradek
- Edvard Beneš was several times a guest in Sezimovo Ústí, settled 1930-1931 build a villa and stayed there after the return from exile frequently with his wife to rest, where he died in 1948.
Partner community
- Thierachern in Switzerland