Velvary

Velvary ( German Welwarn, older Welbern ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers north-west of Kralupy nad Vltavou and belongs to Okres Kladno.

Geography

Velvary is on the left side of the Moldautals in the North Bohemian plateau. The city is situated on the right bank of the creek creek creek Bakovský at the confluence of Cerveny. In the south Velvary is bypassed by the main road I/16 between the motorway junction 18 of the D 8 at Nová Ves and Slany. The town is the terminus of the railway line Kralupy nad Vltavou - Velvary.

Neighboring towns are Miletice and Dolni KAMENICE in the north, Budihostice and Chržín in the northeast, Uhy in the east, Hleďsebe 1 díl, Radovic and Nelahozeves in the southeast, Velka Bučina, Olovnice and Neuměřice in the south, Kamenný Most, Nový Mlýn and Jesin the southwest, Hobšovice, Podhorní Mlýn, Nabdín and Bratkovice in the west and Hospozín and Černuc in the northwest.

History

Velvary was built on a significant commercial street of Prague in the Mark Meissen. The first mention of the Prague collegiate chapters belonging to the village took place in 1282nd Charles IV raised Velvary 1357 to town. 1482 rose Vladislav Jagiello Velvary to the Royal City. The voltage applied to a rectangular market square city was fortified and had four gates. Efforts to subject the city to Colonel Viscount of Prague, were unsuccessful in the 16th century. 1593 confirmed as King Rudolf II Velvary city. Although the city during the Thirty Years' War suffered no damage, it was deserted.

Until the mid-19th century Velvary always belonged to the Bohemian Chamber goods. The Emperor Teplitzer road formed until the start of rail transport the most important connection between Prague and Dresden. Trend of this period was also the demolition a gender fortifications, whose construction purpose was no longer given. 1841 Roudnice Gate, 1878 Slaný goal was canceled and the Chržíner gate also fell in the 19th century.

After the abolition of patrimonial Velvary was from 1848 the seat of a district court and belonged since 1850 to the District Commission Slany. The relocation of roads to Saxony in the Elbe valley led Velvary sidelined. It was not until 1882 Velvary was connected by a local train from Kralupp on the railway network. Since 1921, the town belonged to Okres Kralupy nad Vltavou and after its dissolution in 1960, she was assigned to the Okres Kladno. In 1961, the incorporation of Velka Bučina ( with Malá Bučina ) and in 1980 was added Jesin. Because of the numerous historical buildings of the city center Velvary was declared an urban conservation area.

Boroughs

The city Velvary consists of the districts Jesin ( Jeschin ), Malá Bučina (small Butschin ), Velka Bučina ( United Butschin ) and Velvary ( Welwarn ) and the settlements Nové Uhy ( New Uha ) and Radovic ( Radowitz ).

Sons and daughters of the town

  • January Antonín Koželuh (1738-1814), composer
  • Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818), composer and music educator
  • Václav Klement (1868-1938), automobile manufacturer
  • Stiebitz Ferdinand (1894-1961), classical scholar and translator

Attractions

  • Deanery Church of St. Catherine, the Gothic building dates from the 14th century
  • Cemetery church of St. George, built in 1613-1616, the last Protestant church in Bohemia before recatholicization
  • Hospital
  • Stately inn, today Public Library
  • Town Hall, originally built in 1714,
  • City ​​Museum
  • Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
  • Chapel of All Saints
  • Plague Column on the market created, 1716-1719
  • Prague Gate, Renaissance building from 1580
  • Chapel of St.. Trinity, built at Trinity Fountain at Radovic
  • Halbhölzerner bell tower

House No. 57 on the marketplace ( 1600)

Prague Gate

Cemetery church of St. George

Kraj Hectare Vehicle registration plates of the Czech Republic Vltava Vyšehrad Chapter Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor Klobuky Lidice Otvovice Stradonice (Kladno District)
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