Lázně Bohdaneč

Bohdaneč until 1980 Bohdanečský ( German Bohdanetsch ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located nine kilometers north-west of the center of Pardubice and belongs to Okres Pardubice.

Geography

Bohdaneč is rechtselbisch on the outskirts of Pardubice in a pond landscape on Opatovický kanál. Through the city leads the state road 36 from Pardubice to Chlumec nad Cidlinou that crosses here with the 333 from Hradec Králové to Kutná Hora. To the north lies the verlandende pond Bohdanečský fishpond, which forms a nature reserve with the smaller Matka.

Neighboring towns are Mlýny Křičeň, Bouda u Dolan and Dolany in the north, Staré Ždánice, Nové Ždánice and Ždánický Dvůr in the northeast, Boudy, Stéblová, Hradek and Doubravice in the east, Stara colony, Nova colony and Rybitví the southeast, Cerna u Bohdanče in the south, Živanice in the southwest, and Dědek Novinsko in the west and Na Sádkách, Bukovka and Habřinka in the northwest.

History

The area was inhabited by Ostcharvaten in the 10th century. There was the limit point of the settlement areas of the Slavic tribes of the Czechs, Zlitschanen and Charvaten on the Elbe. It is believed that Bohdanečský was established during this period and the name is derived from a locator Bohdan.

The first mention was made in 1343 during a scuffle between the pastor and the Civil Kříž, in an altarpiece of the church was broken. Owner of the place at that time were the lords of Cimburg. After January 8, 1491 Wilhelm II had bought from Pernštejna the rule Bohdanečský, the heyday of the town began. Pernštejna granted places several privileges that promoted the craft and trade. A special commercial focus was fishing. William of Pernštejna left in the Labe region to create Bohdanečský 44 fish ponds. A greater part of it was abandoned until the 19th century again. For this, the large pond Rozkoš heard on the eastern outskirts of the village, of whose existence only witness dams. Also the Bohdanečský rybnik lost by sedimentation about half of its surface.

After the abolition of patrimonial Bohdanečský formed a municipality in the district of Pardubice. Opened in 1897 Mr Vesely a mud bath. In the first year Vesely treated 70 patients. 1907 Vesely teach the first public transport bus routes in Bohemia. A bus from the Laurin & Klement drove on behalf Vesely regular bathers from Pardubice to the mud bath Bochdanetsch. In 1950, the municipality was assigned to the Okres Pardubice- okolí. After its dissolution Bohdanečský came on 1 January 1961 back to Okres Pardubice.

In 1963 Bohdanečský received the status of a spa. 1971 Bohdanečský became a town. Since March 1, 1980, the city Bohdanečský bears the name Bohdaneč.

The local football club AFK Atlantic Lazne Bohdanečský succeeded in the 1990s, the rise of the 8th in the League Gambrinus League, where they descended again after the season 1997/98.

End of August 2013 were carried out at the local sports ground the fistball European Championships for women and the U21.

Community structure

For the city Bohdaneč no districts are reported. To Bohdaneč heard the settlement Mlýny (mills ).

Attractions

• Town hall, Renaissance to 1530
• Church of St. Mary Magdalene, built in 1715 by František Jedlička from Hermannstädtel, designed by Thomas Haffenecker; to the sculptural refinement Ignaz Rohrbach was involved.
• Gocar spa pavilion, built in 1930 by architect Josef Gočár in kubizistischem style
• Penzion Škroup, built in 1912 by František Zavadil, designed by Josef Gocar
• Villa Oldrich Kvapil, built in 1930, designed by Josef Gocar
• Tiller seat, built by Anna Tiller for her husband Charles Tiller to their favorite seat
• Kuttner 's Chapel, it was built after 1700. The building was shot up by the military in 1794 and re-erected on the initiative of the mayor Johann Franz Kuttner 1800.

Personalities

• Jaroslav Josef Langer (1806-1846), Bohemian poet
• Jan Evangelista Kosina (1827-1899), educator and director of the first Czech school in Olomouc
• Mr Vesely (1855-1920), founder of the bath Bohdanečský
• Karel Šípek (1857-1923), Czech poet, librettist and theater critic
• Gočár (1880-1945), the architect designed in 1910 by several buildings of the cityscape significantly