Lysá nad Labem

Lysa nad Labem ( German Lissa on the Elbe ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 14 km west of Nymburk and belongs to fulltext your real estates.

Location

The city is located at the foot of a 221 m high hill on the right side of the Elbe River in the fertile, extensive valley. North-east rises the Sibak ( Gallows Hill, 223 m). In the north and west Lysa is circled by the river Mlynařice in a wide arc.

Neighboring towns are Benátecká Vrutice and Mladá in the north, Milovice and Vápensko in the northeast, Stratov in the east, Ostra in the southeast, Litol, Tři Chaloupky, Tři Chalupy and Řeháková Bouda in the south, Karlov and Byšičky the southwest, Dvorce in the west and Stara Lysa in northwestern.

History

The first mention of Lyssa date from the 11th century. At this time, the prince Jaromír to have been at the direction of his brother, held captive and blinded to the mountain Sibak. Lysa was kept in the course of the history of several noble families, including the Czech king Přemyslovci.

Documented Nová Lysa was first mentioned in 1291. Queen Guta von Habsburg then combined the individual goods into a whole. From the settlement grew a city in 1293, the management of Stara Lysa Lysa was moved to Nova.

Historical highlights of this resort were the armed rebellion in 1625, during the recatholicization. The population was, like most of Central Europe Protestant. Although the Protestants burned their houses before the advent of the imperial army and fled to Protestant principalities ruled, where she sang 1630 in the Electorate of Saxony founded the village of Lissa, were still alive in 1781, after the adoption of the Tolerationspatents, non-Catholics in the local underground. An immediate response to the Tolerationspatent was the establishment of the Reformed Church in 1783, the college as the Bohemian Brethren in the historic buildings continued residence since 1918.

The city was also hit by the robber Wenzel Babinský. On the night of May 1, 1830, he came over with a seven-member gang the house of Jan Paul.

In a furniture factory in Lysa nad Labem and the coins of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were minted.

The city is a member of the micro-region Polabí.

Attractions

Former Augustinian monastery from the 18th century in the vicinity of the baroque palace with baroque church, which was built Špork the Imperial Count Franz Anton. Among other things, are to be seen in works by Matthias Bernard Braun and Peter Johann Brandl.

• Museum of Oriental Art, dedicated to Bedřich Hrozný.

Boroughs

The city Lysa nad Labem consists of the districts Byšičky ( Bischiczek ) Dvorce ( Dworetz ) Litol and Lysa nad Labem ( Lissa ).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Bedřich Hrozný
• Rudolf Jedlička
• Franz Anton Špork