Vodňany

Vodňany ( German Vodňany ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is 28 kilometers northwest of the center of České Budějovice and belongs to Okres Strakonice.

Geography

Vodňany is located on the right bank of the Blanice in the northwest of Budweiser pool. In the north and east of the city there are large ponds. East of Vodňany runs the route of State Road 20/ 49 E State Road 22 branches between Pisek and České Budějovice, from the north-east of Vodňany Strakonice.

Neighboring towns are Křtětice and Radčice in the north, and Milenovice Čavyně in the northeast, and Číčenice Strpí in the east, Újezd ​​Hvožďany, Svatá Mari Magdalena and Chelčice in the south, Stožice the southwest, Prazak in the west and Krašlovice in the northwest.

History

At the junction of the 12th and 13th centuries placer gold were operated at the Blanice. On the right bank of the river the fishing village Vodna arose. At the location of this settlement probably at times Ottokar II Přemysl was created the modern city. 1327 gave William of country rock in the reign of King John of Luxembourg, the right of patronage of the church of Vodňany the Schlägl. 1336 gave John of Luxembourg Vodňany city rights. Together with Pisek and České Budějovice was the royal city Vodňany from 1400 one of the power centers of the Bohemian crown in South Bohemia. During the Hussite Wars Jan Žižka conquered the city in 1420 and made it by cruel persecution of other faiths as a bulwark of the encampments. 1441 broke in Vodňany from a plague that was referred to as plague, and a majority of the population lost their lives.

During the 15th century more ponds and Vodňany emerged became a center of the South Bohemian fish farming. Once in the hills of the Bohemian Forest - Foothills silver deposits were discovered, originated southwest of the city on Svobodna hora ( 647 m), the mining settlement Vodňanské Svobodné Hory. 1547 Vodňany was raised to Royal mountain town, and received a coat of arms.

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, the city was Vodňany in June 1619 after the Battle of Sablat - to switch between the villages of upper and lower case Sablat at Vodňany - between the mercenaries of the generals Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld and Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Comte de Bucquoy plundered the supremacy in South Bohemia and devastated. 1623 she received Field Marshal Don Baltasar of Marradas of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg as a pledge and then to property. The nephew Don Francisco de Marradas Count of Solent sold them in 1661, along with the rule Seated Woman mountain on the Vltava River to Johann Adolf Imperial Prince of Schwarzenberg. In the years 1722, 1757 and 1782 destroyed large parts of city fires Vodňany, characterized the city lost its importance. Due to the tolerance patents of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, the economic situation of the city improved after 1782 due to the influx of new citizens. In expanding the city's gates were demolished in the first half of the 19th century.

After the founding of Czechoslovakia was created in 1920 a Medium fishing school. 1939-1945 Vodňany belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Vodňany is after the founding of the Czech Republic since 1993 seat of the Research Institute of Fisheries and Hydrobiology at the University of South Bohemia České Budějovice

Boroughs

The city Vodňany consists of the districts Čavyně ( Tschawin ) Hvožďany ( Hwoschdian ) Křtětice ( Kretietitz ), Prazak ( Praschak ) Radčice ( Ratschitz ) Újezd ​​( Großaujest ) Vodňanské Svobodné Hory ( Wodnianer free village), Vodňany I and Vodňany II.

Twinning

• Aarwangen, Switzerland
• Orava Podzámok, Slovakia
• Sieraków, Poland
• Wartberg ob der Aist, Austria
• Zlaté Hory, Czech Republic

Attractions

• Dean Church Nativity of the Virgin, which was redesigned in neo-Gothic 1894-1897 from 1317 detectable structure. At the renewal of the interior of the painter Aleš worked with.
• Fountain on the market, built at the beginning of the 20th century
• Fortifications and moats of the 15th century
• Hospital Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1844
• Former pharmacy on the market, with attic Renaissance, birthplace of František Herites
• Monument to Peter Chelčický in Zeyer Garden
• City Museum in the former synagogue. Vodňany / Wodnany had by the tolerance patents of 1782 -. 1785 the Austrian Emperor Joseph II of Habsburg was a Jewish community of traders, who built a synagogue These Jewish Community ceased to exist when, after the Munich Agreement in 1938, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as an occupying area of the German Reich the Nazi period lasted until 1945.
• Municipal Gallery