VsetÃn
Vsetín ( German Wsetin, older even Settein ) is a city on the Vsetínská Bečva in the northeastern part of the Czech Republic. It is located in Okres Vsetín and has more than 29,000 inhabitants.
The city consists of the districts Horni Jasenka ( Obereschenbach ) Rokytnice ( Roketnitz ) Semetín and Vsetín.
History
The corresponding rule for friend Setteinz mountain town is first mentioned in 1308 as a wok of Krawarn the castle Freundsberg leased with all the accessories by the Knights Templar. Already in the 14th century, the castle went out again and Vsetín became the new seat of power. During the Hussite Wars, the town was spared from destruction by the rebels, as the lords of Krawarn sympathized with the Hussites. 1446 was the reign of Anna of Krawarn to her husband John of Messenbek over on Helfenstein. Five years later, his nephew Ctibor of Cimburg acquired on Meziříčí and Rožnov the rule Vsetín as collateral possession. In 1480, Gwendolyn of Cimburg took the reigns Meziříčí - Rožnov and Vsetín as dowry in her marriage to Peter of St. Georgen and Bösing one. After Cunegonde had died in 1491, Peter married in St. Georgen and Bösing Sophie von Waldstein.
In 1502 he sold both gentlemen to the five brothers of Kunštát. In 1503 took place in the country board certification of purchase, the rule Vsetín included the festivals and the town Vsetín with the toll, the market Pržno, the villages Jablůnka, Růžďka, Kateřinice, Hostalkova, Johanová, Dolni Rokytnice, Horni Rokytnice, Liptál, Austi, Hovězí, Jasenka, Seninka and Ratiboř and the waste places Bobrek Huselná, Semetín, Dvorce, Ščrbkov, Těškovice and Mikulková. In the same year the four other brothers transferred the Lehn Jan Kuna of Kunštát.
Later, the owner of Vsetín changed frequently. Among them were the lords of Pernštejna that Nekes Landek, Arkleb of Víckov and his widow Lukrecia Nekešová Landek (1582-1614) who in 1610 following her husband Albrecht of Waldstein wrote about the rule. Wallenstein broke in 1618, the town Pržno and the mill at the Mikulůvka going on and gave them for extraordinary services Václav Štáblovský of Kovalovice. After Wallenstein was Zdenko Žampach of Potštejn owner of the domain. 1634 bought by the Archbishop of Esztergom Péter Pázmány the rule Vsetín. Under him and his heirs Nicholas Pázmány de Panasz the rule was re-Catholicised to 1644. On May 3, 1652 Nicholas Pázmány sold the reign of George Illésházy in Trenčín. 1708 fell kuruc in Vsetín and burned the town and the castle down.
In 1777, stir among the subjects of the rule Vsetín resistance against high Fronabgaben. At the same time, the former Jesuit January Kořistka, Petr and Petr Jiříček sasina covered by the rule, and spread the rumor that Maria Theresa non-Catholics religious freedom had assured in a Patent of Tolerance. The hoax, which had the goal of revelation and punishment of other faiths goal was used in at least 72 villages and certified in several places with the local seal. Most Protestants were exiled. From the initial resistance to the rule a religious struggle, which grasped the entire Moravian Wallachia emerged. The Protestant Vlachs presented Emperor Joseph II on his visit to meet with Catherine in 1780 a petition for religious freedom. After the actual enactment of the Patent of Toleration by Joseph II in 1781, the exiles returned in 1782 from Hungary. 1802 had the dominion Vsetín 22179 subjects. At this time, there was again a violent religious controversy, this time within the Protestants between the Lutherans and Helvetians.
Since the marriage of Stefan Illésházy with Theresa Barkóczy remained childless, inherited in 1831 the children of his mistress Teresa of Gattersburg the rule. Other owners were her husband Josef Ritter von Wachtler and his descendants.
Attractions
The New Town Hall in neo-Renaissance style on the top place among the most important monuments of Vsetín, it documents the flowering of the city at the end of the 19th century. Due to the growing needs of the Magistrate was built according to the design of the builder and architect Michal Urbanek in the years 1898-1899, in the neighborhood of the existing City Town Hall, the new building with representative appearance. The front of the building decorated with three pairs of relief medallions with portraits of historical figures of the Czech political and cultural life, including of František Palacký, Charles the Elder of Žerotín, George of Podiebrad, Charles IV, Johann Amos Comenius and Karel Havlicek Borovský.
The entrance is flanked by two sandstone pillars and two Säulenkaryatiden wearing a balcony with a stone balustrade. The first solemn meeting in the boardroom was held in May 1990 after complete equipment of the hall.
For the newly erected county in 1909, the city of the district of residence rented in the town hall building fifteen rooms, including the repealed private homes and law offices, up to 1937, when the district office moved into a new building in the neighborhood. The magistrate then convened in the building of Neurathauses until 1980, when he moved to larger premises in the center of the city. In the years 1981-1996 the National District Office used the vacated offices. The last occupant of the building before the general renovation and Bauinstandsetzung for use as a hotel and restaurant was 1997-2003, the district military administration.
The " Regional Museum of Wallachia " in Vsetín the castle has retained a portrait of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, painted by the painter František Vsetín Hlavica. The portrait was created in 1926 for a ceremonial decoration of the meeting room of the Town Hall for the 19th anniversary of the first deputies choice Masaryk in Moravian Wallachia.
Twinning
- Austria Mödling, Austria - since 2004
- Slovakia Stara Ľubovňa, Slovakia
- Slovakia Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia
- Poland Bytom, Poland
- Vrgorac Croatia, Croatia
In addition, the city maintains since 2004 a twinning with Offenbach am Main.
Sports
In the city the six-time Czech champion plays in hockey hokejová Vsetínská.
Personalities
- Eliska Balzerová ( b. 1949 ), actress
- Jiří Čunek (* 1959), politician, mayor of Vsetín
- Michal Horňák (born 1970 ), football player and coach
- Roman Hubník ( born 1984 ), football player
- Erich Kulka (1911-1995), historian, writer and publicist
- Albert Milde (1839-1904), metalworkers and Civil
- Jakub Stepanek ( born 1986 ), professional ice hockey goaltender
- Mirek Topolánek (* 1956), politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Vráblík Martin ( b. 1982 ), skier
- Josef Winkler (1826-1903), Evangelical Lutheran theologian