OpoÄnice
Opočnice ( German Opotschnitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers south-west of Městec Králové and belongs to fulltext your real estates.
Geography
Opočnice is on a ridge of the East Bohemian panel in the headwaters of the creek Velenický ( Velenka ). To the west the hill rises Vinný vrch (252 m) and in the southeast of the Na Hřebínku ( Banberg, 271 m).
Neighboring towns are Městec Králové and Běrunice in the northeast, Dlouhopolsko in the east, Hradcany and Stara BAN in the southeast, and Kolaje Vlkov pod Oškobrhem in the southwest, and Srbce Vrbice in the west and Podmoky in the northwest.
History
First mentioned in writing was the place Woppocznici in 1223, as Sezima of Kostomlaty left him to the Benedictine monastery Vilémov. In another document the Vilémover Abbot Hermann to have the village Woppocznici and the festivals Bolice already received 1219. There was a small party at the Velenka. In 1288 the village was called desolate. Later the place came to the monastery Sadská that him in 1367 the Prague collegiate of St.. Apollinaris handed. In this period was probably also started with the wine on the southern slope of the ridge between Opočnice and Vrbice. During the Hussite Wars, the area was devastated. The northern location, the village and the festivals Bolice were destroyed, as well as the adjacent south pole Nice. Both villages have not been rebuilt.
In the first half of the 16th century, the hospital was in Český Brod owner of the village. Meanwhile, property was confiscated in 1547 by the anti-Habsburg uprising by the Bohemian and Roman-German King Ferdinand I and the Village of the chamber rule Poděbrady connected. During the Thirty Years' War in 1624 Opočnice was burned down by Saxon troops. Later Swedish troops of Field Marshal Banér invaded and 1633 devastated the Imperial under Vitzthum Eckstadt of the village.
1858 was a farmer on the field at the former Byzantine Bronzekreuzchen six festivals from the 8th or 9th century, today in the Prague National Museum. The find was described by Jan Erazim Vocel.
After the abolition of patrimonial Opočnice formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Poděbrady. On January 1, 1961, the community came to fulltext your real estates.
Community structure
For the community Opočnice no districts are reported. To Opočnice include the corridors of extinct villages Bolice and mast Nice.
Attractions
- Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, built 1899-1900 in neo-Renaissance style according to the plans of the architect František Poděbrady Proft. The consecration of the church took place on July 8, 1900. The Baroque main altar of St.. Alois is a work of Ignaz Raab from the 18th century.
- Vinný vrch hill, west of the village, a natural monument
- Remains of the festivals Bolice, north of the town
- Statue of St.. Trinity from 1854, in the park
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bohuslav Vrbenský (1882-1944), Czechoslovak anarchist, politician, minister and mayor of Prague
- Bohuslav KUKAN (1916-1986), architect and master builder of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie