Podhorní Újezd a Vojice

Podhorní Újezd ​​a Vojice (until 1991 Podhorní Újezd ​​) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers south-east of Jičín and belongs to Okres Jičín.

Geography

Podhorní Újezd ​​a Vojice is on the left of the creek at the foot of Bukovka Horschitzer sandstone ridge. To the northwest rises the Hůra ( 389 m ) in the north of Maxinec (450 m) and in the northeast of Chlum ( 449 m). East of the village, the transverse valley of the river Javorka located by the mountain range of Mlázovický Chlum. In Podhorní Újezd ​​are in Mlázovický Chlum numerous quarries.

Through the village the Europa road 442 / State Road 35 leads between Hradec Králové and Jičín. One kilometer south runs the rail link between these cities, where the station is located Vojice.

Neighboring towns are Mlázovice in the north, Šárovcova Lhota, Mezihoří and Libín in the northeast, Dolni Mezihoří and Chloumky in the east, Holovousy and Ostroměř the southeast, Sobčice, Kabaty and Chomutice in the south, Třtěnice the southwest, Kovač in the west and Konecchlumí in the northwest.

History

Vojice

The first mention of Vojice was in 1357 as the seat of Vladiken Zdeněk of Vojice. 1515 acquired a Jan Vojický Nová Ves the festivals Vojice. Until the 17th century, changed hands from the festivals and went out. After the Battle of White Mountain, Albrecht of Wallenstein bought 1624 Vojice.

Among its owners was from 1718 the Monastery of the Carthusian in Valdicka. After the secularization of the monastery during the Josephine reforms the rule Valdicka passed into imperial possession. The farm was Vojice parzellisiert and 20 settlers founded the settlement Kabaty.

After the abolition of patrimonial Vojice in 1850 to a municipality in the district of Hradec Králové, which included the districts Podhorní Oujezd and Kabaty. Until the 19th century Vojice was a dominantly agricultural village, was operated in the through the convenient location on the southern slope of the Mlázovický Chlum especially fruit growing. In particular, its cherry orchards made ​​known Vojice.

Podhorní Oujezd in 1880 independently. 1897 Vojice was one of the first villages in Bohemia, where Jan Hus was a monument. Two years later opened in the place a further craft and trade school for sandstone processing companies. From 1900 the village belonged to the district of Nová Paka and from the 1930s to the Okres Hořice. As part of the reform of the education sector, the craft and trade school Vojice was dissolved in 1932.

The local government reform of 1960 Vojice was incorporated on January 1, 1961, after Podhorní Újezd ​​and came to the same Okres Jičín.

Podhorní Újezd

The first written mention of the village was 1408th Podhorný Ougezd was like the northwestern located Vojice a village of fruit and vegetable farmers.

In 1800 Count Trauttmandsorff opened at the foot of the majestic Maxinec sand quarry. During the 19th century more breaks were added, in 1860 there were in the village for 17 quarry operations. After the abolition of patrimonial Podhorní Oujezd formed in 1850 a district of the municipality in the district Vojice Hradec Králové. The transformation of the village to a center of stone crusher and stone masons led to independence in 1880 as a community. 1882 employed the stone industry 200 workers. Horschitzer sandstone from Podhorní Újezd ​​was used for the construction of the National Theatre, the Emperor Franz Joseph train station and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, as well as for numerous buildings in Budapest and Vienna. He plays a significant role in the Czech monument and architecture today.

From 1900 Podhorný Újezd ​​belonged to the district of Nová Paka.

At the commercial and art exhibition of 1903 in Horschitz created a consortium of Steinmetz masters from Podhorní Újezd ​​the twelve -meter-high and 32 -ton obelisk - Rieger, which was placed there on the hill Gotthard. The number of employees of 23 Quarry and Stonemason of Podhorní Újezd ​​, which also maintained its own health insurance, amounted during the period 1906 to 1910 to 300 to 600 in the 1930s, the village came to Okres Hořice. In the course of municipal reform of 1960, the community came on 1 January 1961 Okres Jičín. At the same time was the incorporation of Vojice. On 1 February 1991, the community changed its name Podhorní Újezd ​​in Podhorní Újezd ​​a Vojice.

Community structure

The community Podhorní Újezd ​​a Vojice consists of the districts Podhorní Újezd ​​( Podhorn Aujest ) and Vojice ( Wojitz ) and the settlement Kabaty.

Attractions

• Monument to Jan Hus in Vojice, made ​​in 1897 in the quarries of Podhorní Újezd
• Cemetery in Vojice with numerous ornate grave painting from sandstone
• Birthplace of the sculptor Alois Khun, elaborate sandstone
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
• Chapel in Vojice
• Quarries

Personalities

• Ladislav January Kofránek (1880-1954), painter and sculptor, born in Vojice