Peruc

Peruc ( German Perutz ) is a market town ( městys ) in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers east of Louny and belongs to Okres Louny.

Geography

The place is located on the right side above the valley of the creek Débeřský on a plateau. In Peruc the state roads 239 and between Louny Velvary, and the 237 between Libochovice and Nové Strašecí cross. Through the town built by the Prague - Duxer railroad railway Kralupy nad Vltavou - Most. Neighboring towns are palek, Stradonice and Chrastín in the north, Černochov in the east, and Vraný Vrbičany the southeast, Telce in the south, Vrbno nad Lesy and Hřivčice the southwest, Milonka, Deber and Slavětín in the west and Kystra and Radonice nad Ohri in the northwest.

History

According to ancient traditions Peruc was the scene of the romance of Prince Oldrich with the farmer's daughter, Bozena, from which his son Břetislav emerged. Recalled in place the Oldrich and Bozena - oak - source.

The first documentary evidence dates from the year 1170. Up to the Hussite wars the place was among the possessions of the Premonstratensian Strahov. Below is secular changed hands frequently. Among them were Johann Dietrich von Ledebur, who earned Perutz in 1673. Until 1718 Ledebur owned the place and in 1814 it was acquired by the noble family of Thun and Hohenstein. Until the expropriation in 1945 were these owners of the castle. The manor belonged then to 1963 the People's Committee of Okres Louny and was subsequently overwrite the state museums in Prague. In 1994, the community owner of the castle.

On 30 November 2005, a partnership agreement with the Saxon village of Leubsdorf was closed.

Peruc has since December 1, 2006 the status of a market town ( městys ). On 9 March 2007, the investors Francis James Hellyer and Emmanuel Ciolfi from Wales acquired the lock for 19 million crowns. After completion of the renovation, the object should be used for a hotel.

Local structure

The community Peruc consists of the districts Černochov ( Czernochow ) Chrastín ( Chrastin ) Hřivčice (vegetable village), Pátek ( Patek ), Peruc ( Perutz ), Radonice nad Ohri ( Radonitz an der Eger ), Stradonice ( Stradonitz ) and Telce ( Teletz ). The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Černochov, Hřivčice, Pátek u Loun, Peruc, nad Ohri Radonice, Stradonice u Pátku and Telce.

Attractions

• Church of St. Peter and Paul, begun in 1694 by Antonio della Porta and completed 1760-1770 by Pietro Paolo Columbani.
• Baroque castle Peruc, 1770 designed by Ignaz Franz Platzer. The complex includes a park.
• The Oldrich oak is probably older than 1000 years and has a circumference of 9.70 m at the base. She stands at the Bozena - source which has a pseudo-Gothic canopy.

Personalities

• The painter Emil Filla spent in Peruc the last years of his life
• Father František Daneš, a Czech patriot and educator acts for many years in Peruc. During this time, the parish was the meeting place of leading personalities of national rebirth, as František Palacký, Karel Havlicek Borovský, František Ladislav Čelakovský, Josef Václav Fric, František Ladislav Rieger, Karel Sabina, Svatopluk Čech and Václav Vladivoj Tomek. His final resting place is under a neoclassical chapel in the cemetery of Peruc.