Slaný
The town of Slany ( German snake ), a former royal town in Bohemia is located in Slaný plateau, the north-western part of Prague plateau, about 25 km north- west of Prague.
History
The area in the vicinity of Prague has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The emergence Slaný goes back to a salt source where around the year 750 AD a settlement is detectable. Beginning of the 13th century developed a prosperous city at this salt source and was appointed by Wenceslas II in 1305 to King City. The rulers of the house of Přemyslids gave the city as well as later Emperor Charles IV numerous privileges. During the Hussite Wars Slany was a center of political and religious movement of the Hussites in Bohemia. In the following two centuries, the city remained economically prosperous. After the Battle of White Mountain with the victory of the Catholic League of the Protestant lords in Bohemia, the assets and the land was confiscated by the asset management of the Austrian emperor. She sold the city in 1620 to Jaroslav Borsita Count of Martinic on Smečno. Snake was since 1788 the seat of the district office of the Rakonitzer circle. 1848 snake got its own city council, developed in the second half of the 19th century, to an industrial city. In 2003, Slany had 15,754 inhabitants.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was originally the royal unchanged Bohemian coat of arms, including crest. To distinguish was - seen by the observer - selected: left on the helmet cover kneels an unclothed boy with both hands holding the helmet turned to the right. In the more recent form he is dressed in blue and eliminated the left side of the crest.
Attractions
- City Hall, 1378 donated by King Charles IV
- Church of the Holy Trinity - originally Protestant, built in the years 1581-1602. Today the seat of the Carmelite Order.
- St. Gotthard Church
- Piaristenwohnheim, founded in 1658, today the seat of the municipal library and the national heritage museum.
- Gates of the city wall - Pražská, Lounská, Velvarská and Fortna - today only get Velvarská.
- Slaný mountain: dominant volcanic mountain, with salt mines.
Districts
Dolín, Želevčice, Lotouš, Blahotice, Netovice, KVIC, Trpoměchy, Otruby
Twin Cities
- Pegnitz (City), Germany
Personalities
- Václav Beneš Třebízský (1848-1884), Catholic priest, writer
- Karl Joseph Biener of bees Mountain (1731-1778), district captain, prehistorians
- Ladislav Čepelák (1924-2000), painter and graphic artist
- Jaroslav Fencl (* 1913), graphic
- Josef Holub (1870-1957), landscape painter
- Eduard Hradec, urologist, a professor at the University of Prague
- Jindřich Hulínský, historian and archivist
- Dominik Kynský, writer and translator
- Josef Lacina (pseudonym Kolda Malínský; 1850-1908 ), historian, writer
- Paul Ludwik (1878-1934), engineer
- January Malypetr (1873-1947), Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
- František Karel Miltner, archaeologist and numismatist
- Václav Moucha, archaeologist
- Josef Matej Navratil, painter
- Václav Nejtek, academic sculptor
- Josef Pacák, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Prague, professional publicist
- Martin Přibyl, Priest, King archivist in Berlin
- Karel Scheinpflug (1869-1948), entrepreneur, writer and journalist, father of Olga Scheinpflugová and father of Karel Capek
- Olga Scheinpflugová, actress and writer. Wife of Karel Capek
- Václav Smetáček (1906-1986), composer and conductor
- Miloslav Stiebr, a professor at the University of Prague, lawyer and legal historian
- Jaroslav Suchy, anthropologist
- Václav Štech (1859-1947), writer, author, theater director and co-founder of Slaný Museum
- Václav Vilém Štech, art historian, publicist
- Johann Schulz of rock village, mayor of Kutna Hora
- Rudolf Urbanek, historian, professor at the University of Brno in Moravia, professional publicist
- Ferdinand Velc, painter, art historian, publicist
- Daniel Vepřek, author of "historical calendar " City Chronicles
- Karel Alois Vinaricky, translator of classical literature
- Karl Wildbrunn, singer