SokoleÄ
Sokoleč ( German Sokol Adige, also Sokolecz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers south of Poděbrady and belongs to fulltext your real estates.
Geography
Sokoleč is linkselbisch am Graben Sokolečská strouha on the Bohemian panel. The village is located within the large ring of the test track Velim, on the western outskirts of the village is the small ring. To the north runs the motorway D11 / E 67, here is the exit 39 Poděbrady -jih. In the east the road 38 between Nymburk and Kolin. South-east lie the corridors of the extinct during the Thirty Years War the village Popovice.
Neighboring towns are Přední Lhota and Kluk in the north, Libice nad Cidlinou in the northeast, Oseček and Předhradí in the east, Pňov and Klipec the southeast, Dolni Nouzov, Horni Nouzov and Velim in the south, Cerhenice the southwest, Ratenice in the west and Vrbová Lhota in the northwest.
History
The first written mention of Sokolčí place in the year 1332. According to old traditions of the place should have been a fief of the royal falconer at the beginning of the 13th century, from which the place name arose. The residents worked as a lumberjack in the grand forests; later, agriculture and crafts to the main purchase. 1799 village school was inaugurated.
After the abolition of patrimonial Sokoleč formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Poděbrady. In the 19th century, the cultivation of sugar beet and chicory began around 1880 was a Zichoriendarre. Between 1900 and 1904 the new school was built. 1906 was a farmer on a field near Sokoleč a golden ax, which today is located in Poděbrady in the museum. Since 1961, the church belongs to fulltext your real estates. In 1963, the experimental ring Velim. Since 2005 located in June, on the one kilometer from the village forest meadow Mýtina organized the Mýtina Festival of Country, Folk and tramp music annually.
Community structure
For the community Sokoleč no districts are reported.
Attractions
- Monument to František Novák
- Chapel on the village square, built in 1799
Sons and daughters of the town
- František Novák (1902-1940), Czech pilot and flight acrobat, known as king of the skies