Mladá Boleslav
Mladá Boleslav ( German Jungbunzlau ) is a Czech town in the Central Bohemian Region northeast of Prague. It has about 44 252 inhabitants and an area of 28.9 km ². Mladá Boleslav is located on the Iser.
- 5.1 Born in the village
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History
The town was founded in the second half of the 10th century by Boleslav II. In 1255 a monastery of St. John was founded in the town. The place has received city rights in part in 1334 and partly in 1436.
In the 16th century the town became the center of the Bohemian Brethren who followed the ideas of Jan Hus. It became a bishopric established and built a cathedral in the Renaissance style. The religious wars of the 17th century brought the decline in population number and recatholicisation.
In the 19th century, industrialization began in Mladá Boleslav. 1895, the company Laurin & Klement was founded, originally as a bicycle manufacturer. After successful development and diversification of production in the direction of the automotive industry, this company was sold in 1925 to the heavy industrial group based in Škoda Plzeň. The automotive branch was spun off after the second world war as a state enterprise. This company was privatized in 1990 and since then is as Skoda Auto of the Volkswagen Group.
In the 1920s, emerged in Mladá Boleslav several buildings of Czech modernism. Emil Kralik (1880-1946) built the Municipal Theater, Jiří Kroha (1893-1974), the department store Gellner and the Bezirkspolyklinikum.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Mladá Boleslav is situated 60 km north-east of Prague on the European road 65/Schnellstraße Rychlostní silnice 10 The main station has connections to 070 Prague - The exposition of 071 Nymburk - Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav 064 - Stara Paka and 076 Mladá Boleslav - Melnik.
Established businesses
In Mladá Boleslav are the seat and the largest plant of the automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto. The company employs 23,976 people in the Czech Republic (2006 ), the majority of them at the factory in Mladá Boleslav. So are employed by the subsidiary of Volkswagen AG more than three quarters of total employment in the city. Škoda Auto is also the most important automobile manufacturer in the Czech Republic and the largest exporter in the country.
Education
In Mladá Boleslav, the private university located Škoda Auto Vysoká škola.
Districts
The city is divided into 13 districts: Bezděčín, Čejetice, Čejetičky, Debř, Chrást, Jemníky, Michalovice, Mladá Boleslav I, Mladá Boleslav II, Mladá Boleslav III, Mladá Boleslav IV, Podchlumí, Podlázky.
Twinning
Personalities
Born in the city
- František Antonín Bečvařovský, composer
- František Gellner, Czech poet, anarchist, novelist, painter and caricaturist
- Josef Holub, botanist
- Hugo Mary Kritz (pseudonym of Hugo Křížkovský ), German writer
- Vincenç Zahradník (1790-1836), priest
- Vladislav Brunner (1910-1989), flutist
- Adina Mandlová, (1910-1991), actress
- Eva Bosáková, (1931-1991), gymnast
- Václav Roubíček (1944-2010), engineer, scientists, university president and deputy Senate of the Czech Parliament
- Vladimír Michálek, ( born 1956 ), director
- Vilém Čok, ( born 1961 ), singer
- Jan Zelezny, (born 1966 ), javelin thrower
- Václav Koloušek, (born 1976 ), football player
- Radim Vrbata, ( born 1981 ), ice hockey player
- Martin Havlát, ( born 1981 ), ice hockey player
- Jiří Polnický, (* 1989), cyclocross riders
In the village had
- Siegfried Kapper, Czech writer, translator and doctor of Jewish origin
- Josef Bohumil Herclík, Geigenbaumeister