Běchary

Běchary ( German Biechar ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. Lies 14 kilometers south of Jičín and belongs to Okres Jičín.

Geography

Běchary is located on the North Bohemian panel and is drained by the creek Stříble.

Neighboring towns are Vršce in the northeast, Slavhostice in the east, in the southeast Židovice, Běchárky in the south, the west and Budčeves Cholenice in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in an applied 1283-1284 land register of the diocese of Prague. The place name probably originated during the period of German colonization, and is determined by cup. 1292 Wenceslas II granted the bishopric of the privilege of applying a court in Běchary. In addition to the episcopal share belonged to another part of the town to the landed gentry. 1322 Sezema from Bechar is named as the owner of this part in connection with damage caused in Udrnice.

A comparison of the Plebans of Běchary with the monastery Zderaz over the decade of monastic village Chotěšice was completed from the year 1312, the first evidence of the church, as before Bishop John IV of Dražice.

The episcopal estates in Běchary reached during the Hussite Wars to worldly men. 1437 she received Wenzel von Mačovice by Emperor Sigismund mortgage wise and closed it on to Chotěšice. The subsequent owners included the gender of Běchary and Pařízek, and from 1500 the Halama of Běchary. 1527 bought Wenzel Haugwitz of Biskupitz the rule Kopidlno including Chotěšice and Běchary. His son John sold this property in 1559 and had only a Běchary he relinquished in 1564 to Emperor Ferdinand I.. After the connection of Běchary to the rule Altenburg was. Balthasar robes main Sucha ( Robmhap ze Suché ) Běchary sold in 1609 to the owner of Kopidlno, Ulrich Desiderius Proskowski of Proskau. In the Thirty Years' War were large parts of the village desolate.

After 1649, the parish became extinct in Běchary. The Church of St. Adalbert was a branch church of Kopidlno and from 1787 by Vršce. 1835 had 572 inhabitants of the village. Until the abolition of patrimonial regimes in 1848 Běchary remained to rule Kopidlo belonging. Velké Běchary formed with the hamlet of Malé Běchary 1850 a municipality in the district Jičín. 1880 was the change of the municipality name in Běchary. At this time Běchary had 651 inhabitants, in Malé Běchary there were 70 The district of Malé Běchary received in 1921 the name Běchárky.

In Běchárky the remains of the former narrow gauge railway line from Kopidlno are after Češov that led earlier by the place.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Běchary Běchary ( Biechar ) and Běchárky (small Biechar ).

Attractions

• Church of St. Adalbert; the detectable since 1312 building received after the fire of 1692 in 1708 a baroque redesign
• Statue of St. Wenceslas created in 1883 by sculptor Antonín Myslivec Hořice
• Statue of St. Francis of Serafin created in 1775

Sons and daughters of the town

• Václav Hořejšek (1839-1874), Czech composer
• Josef Chaloupský (1932-1991), Swedish geologist