Lázně Toušeň

Toušeň Lázně ( German Tauschin ) is a market town with 1,136 ( 2 October 2006) inhabitants in the region Středočeský kraj (Czech Republic).

The market town is located east of Prague at the confluence of the Elbe and the Jizera between Brandys nad Labem - Stara Boleslav and Čelákovice, in a region rich in history. The spa town lives mainly from tourism.

History

1293, the village was first mentioned in writing, however, was already inhabited before five centuries. The place served as sentinels of Elbfurt that lay on the salt route. In the 13th century belonged to the fief Tauschin assets of the king. Under the reign of John of Luxembourg, the lands came into the hands of the lords of Michalovitz. Charles IV wrote here during his stay his religious thoughts, which he wrote in his memoirs later. During the Hussite Wars, the town was besieged by Jan Želivský and later occupied by Prague armies. 1468, the city passed into the hands of the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad, but whose sons they sold again. Beginning of the 16th century acquired the Prague mayor January Pašek z Vratu stains, began the construction of the Renaissance castle and put first vineyards and hop gardens. 1547 was the place of the crown again, this time the owner was King of Bohemia and later Emperor Ferdinand I in the early 17th century. Tauschin was a station of the Wroclaw and Silesia post. To destroy the town and it was during the Thirty Years' War by the Swedes. It was not until the late 17th century when the town fell into the hands of the Waldstein family, he experienced a new upswing. In the second half of the 19th century a market was established in 1868 opened a sugar mill and 1868, the baths were built by January Kralik. 1979, the site of the city was raised. In 1991, he lost the city rights and was a spa town. In 2006, the renewal of the status of Městys was.

The resort had several famous visitors, including Josef Svatopluk Machar the poet, the last Austrian Emperor Karl I, the composer Leoš Janáček, the opera singer Emil pollert and Otakar Mařák, the actor and director Karel Zelensky, the writer Josef Čapek Karel Čapek and, the long-distance runner Emil Zatopek and more. From contemporary personalities here recovered the athletes Jarmila Kratochvílová, Helena Fibingerová, Ludvik Danek Jan Zelezny and Petr Korda, the opera singer Jarmila Novotná, writer Adolf Branald and Bohumil Hrabal.

Attractions

• Church and Chapel of St. Florian (1890)
• Watermill
• Old Bailiwick
• Town hall