Kamberk

Kamberk, 1951 - 1991: Zlaté Hory ( German Kamberg ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers south of Vlašim and belongs to Okres Benešov.

Geography

Kamberk located in the Středočeská pahorkatina in a land that is called Česká Sibiř ( Bohemian Siberia). The village lies in the Blanitzer furrow ( Blanická Brázda ) on the river Blanice. Above the village is the Blanice in the 12 -hectare fishpond Kamberský ( Kamberger pond, also called Zlatohorský fishpond ), jammed. To the northwest, at Roudný, lies the abandoned gold mine Roudný, which was the richest gold deposits in Europe in the 1920s. In the northwest, the Blanik rises.

Neighboring towns are Louňovice pod Blaníkem and Hrajovice in the north, Načeradec in the northeast, Pravětice in the east, in the southeast Hrnčíře, Skrýšov in the south, and Vosná Křekovice in the southwest, and Lhýšov Otradov in the west and Předbořice in the northwest.

History

The mountain town of Barrow Mountain was founded in the 13th century by German miners who ran gold mining. Was first mentioned in writing of the Lords of country rock associated place in the year 1261st Since 1280 a fortress owned by Sezima of country rock is occupied. In the 14th century the citizens of Prague Jan Rotlev acquired the town of Mountain carts. The Royal Bohemian Master of the Mint bought at this time several gold mines in the country, including in owl. There Rotlev became the most successful mining Tern Ehmer in the city's history when he won half a ton of gold within six months through the discovery of a large gold vein. The subsequent owners are from the 14th century, the family of the carts Berger ( Kamberský of Kamberk ). Carts Mountain importance as Goldbergbauort went out in the 15th century, when the mines were shut down. Subsequently, various noble families took turns as the owner of Mountain carts.

In 1700, acquired the masters of Kuenburg carts mountain and closed the place at the Fideikommissherrschaft young Woschitz. The festivals so that you no longer need a stately home was converted into a parsonage. Over the years, then the local name changed in Kamberg / Kamberk. After the abolition of patrimonial formed Kamberk 1848 a municipality in the district of Tábor. In 1890 Kamberk 599 inhabitants, in 1939 lived in the village of about 800 people. After the Second World War, the town was assigned to the Okres Votice. After the takeover by the Communists in 1948 started in the back errichtenen Czechoslovakia a wave of local renaming, whose goal was the eradication of Germanisms. In 1951 the community was renamed Zlaté Hory. In 1961, Zlaté Hory to Okres Benešov. After the Velvet Revolution, the inhabitants decided to return to the historically grown city name Kamberk, which the community contributes time since 1991. Two-thirds of the houses of Kamberk are now used as holiday homes.

Local structure

The municipality consists of the villages Kamberk Hrajovice ( Hrajowitz ) Kamberk ( Kamberg ) and Předbořice ( Pschedborschitz ).

Attractions

  • Fixed Kamberk built in the 13th century and later converted into a vicarage
  • Cemetery Chapel of St. Anne, west over the village, built in the mid-18th century
  • Church of St. Martin, the detectable church was remodeled in 1730 since the 14th century baroque
  • Rural Kamberk Museum, built in 2006
  • Chapel in Předbořice
  • Stone dam of the Kamberský fishpond, built in 1925

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Karel Dobeš (1922-2002), writer and local historian in Kamberk

In the town lived and worked

  • Lubomir Kostelka, the actor lives in Kamberk
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