Police nad MetujÃ
Police nad Metují ( German Politz at the Mettau ) is a city in the northeast of the Czech Republic. It belongs to Okres Náchod in the region Hradec Králové region and located 17 kilometers northeast of Náchod.
Geography
Police nad Metují lies in the valley of the Mettau on the edge of Braunauer walls. Neighboring towns are Hony ( Hutberg ) and Pěkov ( Piekau ) in the north, Hlavňov in the northeast, Suchy Dul in the east, Bely and Machov the southeast, Bezděkov, Vysoká Srbská and Velké Petrovice in the south, Starkov and Vlásenka in the west and Lachov in the northwest.
History
The Politzer area originally belonged to the dominion of the Slavnikiden. However, the colonization of the area goes back to the Benedictines. The Přemyslide King Otakar II donated to the monastery Břevnov the Politzer area ( Poličky újezd ) with the mission to cultivate the assigned country. Abbot Martin I. Břevnov founded a monastery here, of which the further history and development of Politz was strongly influenced.
Was first documented Politz on September 6, 1253 in a charter of King Ottokar II, with whom he Břevnov the Abbot Martin I. the transfer market of Provodov by Politz, which already had the status of a town, approved. On August 9, 1254, the boundary between the rule and the Náchod Břevnov branch monastery Politz was set in a Latin written document. It ran along the river of Machau Židovka up to their confluence with the Mettau. On November 3, 1260 King Ottokar II confirmed the monastery Břevnov the area of Politzer parish and the area behind the Braunauer walls that had belonged until then to Glatzer country and which had previously appropriated to the monastery wrong.
In 1295 the town was the center of a dominion which was administered by the Politzer provosts. From Politz from 1322, the monastery was founded in Braunau. During the Hussite Wars Politz was established in May 1421 burned down by the Silesians who fought on the side of the Bohemian king Sigismund, and departed from Braunau over Politz and Náchod to Prague. In addition, people who had fled to the nearby forest on Ostaš was severely abused.
Together with his country's captain Hans warning village participated in the April 24, 1472 Duke Henry the Elder. , Owned the neighboring county of Glatz and the adjacent rule Náchod, at the request of Braunauer Abbot Peter without a fight, the town of Braunau a. She had been in 1469 by the captain of the Czech anti-king Matthias Corvinus, Franz von Hag, busy. Meanwhile, Hungarian mercenaries still were in the city, which was harassed by them. Shortly thereafter took Henry the Elder. also the town Politz one that thus came together with the Braunauer country until 1483 under the reign of Henry, who incorporated it with the consent of King Vladislav II his county Glatz 1479 pledged Henry the Elder. Politz, along with John of the Braunau Žeberk (Jan ze Žeberka az Plané ) on its lifetime.
In the Thirty Years' War the city was plundered and destroyed. Under Abbot Othmar Daniel Zinke the monastery buildings were extended and remodeled the facade of the Abbey Church, designed by Kilian Ignaz Dienzenhofer. The monastery was deconsecrated by Emperor Joseph II in the Josephine reforms in 1785. The monastery church was rededicated to the parish church. As of 1850, the village belonged to the district court for Politz or later the district of Braunau.
Economically were the manufacture of linen and related leash markets of importance. In the 20th century, the textile production and engineering developed.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages Hlavňov ( United Labnay ), Hony ( Hutberg ) Pěkov ( Piekau ) Radešov ( Radeschau ) and Velka Ledhuje ( United Ledhuj ).
Twinning
- Saltara, Italy
- Świdnica, Poland
Attractions
- The three-nave Monastery Church of the Assumption was built in 1294. They burned down several times and was structurally changed. Get remained from the time it was built the early Gothic, richly decorated with plant motifs West Portal. The Baroque Western facade was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer 1723.
- Next to the church are the former monastic buildings.
- The town hall was Baroque style in the 18th century.
Personalities
- Hanus Wihan (1855-1920), cellist, professor of cello at the Prague Conservatory
- Václav Vladivoj Tomek (1818-1905); Historian, spent his holidays in Politz and researched its history; 1881 Honorary Citizen of Politz.