Panenské Břežany

Panenské Břežany ( German Virgin Breschan also Jungfernbreschan ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 15 kilometers north of the city center of Prague and is part of the Okres Praha- východ.

Geography

The place is located in the headwaters of Kojetický creek on the high area to the right of the Vltava valley. West of the village leads the D8 motorway / Europe 55, the next driveway at Úžice is past. Behind the grounds of military aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody expands.

Neighboring towns are Čenkov and Veliká Ves in the north, Předboj in the northeast, Zlonín in the east, in the southeast Bašť, Klíčany in the south, and Hoštice Vodochody in the southwest and Dolínek and Odolena Voda in the northwest.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1233 as a possession of the Benedictine monastery of St. George at Prague Castle.

In the first half of the 18th century Baroque palace, which was called after the construction of the second lock as "Upper Castle " was born.

After the secularization of the monastery in Josephinism the good Virgin Breschan fell to the religious fund. Until 1820, the owners changed several times, then it was bought by the curator of the Protestant community in Prague Matthias Friedrich Freiherr giant of Stallburg and promoted modern agricultural methods for cultivation and processing of oilseed rape and sugar beet. He built the Lower Castle designed in the Empire style in 1840. His sons, the large landowners Werner Friedrich giant of Stallburg (1815-1887), owner of Blahotitz dominion and honor Knight of the Order of St. Hohn and Adolf giant of Stallburg (1822-1899), Captain of the Imperial Army inherited the property. His descendants lost possession in 1901 because of insolvency on the Prague Credit Bank, which had been found in 1909 in the Austrian sugar manufacturer Ferdinand Bloch -Bauer a financially strong buyers. Bloch -Bauer brought in the Lower Castle under his art and hunting trophy collection.

In the German destruction of the remainder of Czechoslovakia, the Jewish industrialists fled and the estate was confiscated by the Nazis. From 1939 to 1942, the Lower Castle was the residence of the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. In the castle lived Konstantin von Neurath and from 1941 its successor Reinhard Heydrich with their families. After Heydrich's death, his widow Lina lived with the children until 1945 in the castle. For the management of the goods made ​​from July 1942, a subcamp of the concentration camp Theresienstadt, which existed until February 11, 1944, and then a satellite camp of Flossenbiirg with 15 prisoners who worked for Lina Heydrich. After April 13, 1945, the camp was evacuated.

Attractions

• Lower Castle
• Upper Castle
• Chapel of St. Anne, built in 1705 - 1707 spent according to plans by Johann Blasius Santini Aichl instead of a previous building in 1691