Plasy
Plasy ( German Plaß ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 21 km north of the center of Plzeň and belongs to the district of Pilsen North.
Geography
Plasy lies in the west of the Rakonitzer hills in the valley of Střela ( Schnella ). To the north rises the Táhly ( 457 m), in the west the Spálené hora (514 m ) south of the hospital (410 m) and in the southwest Na Krasnići (462 m). Through the city leads the state road I/27 Železná Ruda - Plzeň- Plasy - Kralovice - Dubi and the railway line Plzeň- Žatec.
Neighboring towns are Horni Hradiste and Žebnice in the north, Sechutice, Hadačka and Výrov in the northeast, Babina in the east, Nebřeziny the southeast, Rybnice and Kaznějov in the south, Mrtník and Lomnička the southwest, Lomany and Korýtka in the west and Vrazne and Ondřejov in the northwest.
History
Occupied the site of Plasy In the 12th century a royal court. 1144 donated Vladislav II and his wife Gertrude of Babenberg the monastery Plasy. The following year the first nine Cistercians came from the Klosterlangheim in the area and received by Vladislav II the royal stand hunting Plasy and villages Kázňov, Sechutice, Vrazne and Nebřeziny and whose income is passed into serfdom. In 1202 a Romanesque basilica was built. The Cistercian monastery was a center of Roman Catholic colonization of Rakonitzer mountain country. 1350 included the the Monastery of 50 villages. During the attacks of the Hussites, the economic decline of the monastery began. 1419 the first villages were pledged in 1431 and burned the Hussites under their generals Andreas Prokop the monastery down. Subsequently, the monastery became impoverished and had in 1518 also pledge to him remaining dominion Kaceřov. After the monastery rule included only six villages and the revenue to be obtained therefrom. A turning point was the Thirty Years War. After the Battle of White Mountain, and the recatholicization in Bohemia the monastery Plaß got back a large part of the lost property. Thus, the monastery looked able to make the ruined convent building in baroque style new.
1785 the monastery Plaß was canceled because of the Josephine reforms and be handed over to the religious fund management from the town Kralowitz, 55 villages, the deaneries Mariánská Týnice and Bohemian Leipa and houses in Prague, Pilsen and Rakonitz existing possession. 1826 bought by the Austrian foreign minister Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich, the basic rule Plaß / Plasy, left the monastery to a chateau with an English park landscape remodel and northwest of the town Plaß add to the Schnella Ironworks Clemens cabin. In the 19th century Plasy was extended to the right bank of the Schnella.
After the abolition of manorial Plaß / Plasy formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Kralowitz. 1873 was the place by the railway Pilsen- Billed ( - Komotau ) a rail connection. In 1918 the newly formed Czechoslovakia Plaß. 1930, Plasy 1747 inhabitants, of whom 32 were German and belonged from 1939 to 1945 for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. After the end of World War II in May 1945, the Princely House of Metternich was expropriated and expelled the German inhabitants. In 1949 Plasy was raised to the district town. After the abolition of Okres Plasy the city was in 1961 assigned to the Okres Plzeň -sever and belongs since 1993 to the Czech Republic.
Local structure
The city Plasy consists of the districts Babina, Horni Hradiště (Upper Radisch ) Nebřeziny ( Bruck, also Nebrzczin ) Lomnička ( Lomnitschka ), Plasy ( Plaß ) and Žebnice ( Schebnitz, also Zebnitz ) and the settlement Lomany ( Loman ).
Attractions
- Plasy monastery, under the abbots Andreas Troyer and Eugen Tyttl took place between the late 17th and mid-18th century by Jean Baptiste Mathey, Jan Blazej Santini - Aichl, Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer a redesign of the monastery complex in the Baroque style.
- Monastery Church of the Assumption, built 1661-1666
- Three-storey store, built 1685-1686
- Gothic royal chapel from 1265
- Church of Sts. Wenzel, baroque redesigned by Jean Baptiste Mathey; Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich who converted in 1826 the main facade of the Empire style. In the church, he had a grave lay for himself and his family create.
- Valley of Střela northwest of the city, rocky gorge with several meanders and two railway tunnels
- English landscape park Velka Louka
Sons and daughters of the town
- Rudolf Jung (1882-1945), Nazi politician and author
- Václav Levý (1820-1870), sculptor, was born in Nebřeziny
- Viktor Stretti (1878-1957), graphic artist and lithographer
- Antonín Wiehl (1846-1910), architect
Worked in the city
- Johann Georg Nussbaumer (1794-1854), chief forester