Vysoké Veselí

Vysoke Veseli ( German Hochwessely, even high Wessely, high Wesseln, High Wessely ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers south-east of Jičín and belongs to Okres Jičín.

Geography

Vysoke Veseli is located on the left bank of the Cidlina on the East Bohemian panel. To the west lies the pond Velkoveselký rybnik and on the southeast edge of the smaller Šmejkal. In the southeast, rises in the forest Veselský les of the hill "U Liščích the " (286 m).

Neighboring towns are Dolni Hradišťko, Hradišťko, Veselska Lhota and Stříbrnice in the north, Chomutičky and Nevratice in the northeast, Staré Smrkovice in the east, Chotělice the southeast, Hrobičany and Velešice in the south, SbEr and Kozojedy the southwest, Volanice in the west and Novy Dvur and Vlhošť in northwest.

History

Veseli was probably founded as a center of Wartenberg in Northeast Bohemia before the end of the 13th century. At the top on the Cidlina a large celebrations and below the village had been. From 1283 included the goods Beneš I. von Wartenberg, he was succeeded by 1297-1312 Beneš II, the predicate of Weselí and Wartenberg grew up. It is believed that Veseli even before the founding of Nový Bydžov received municipal rights. In 1311 the citizens and Council Conrad de Wesel is detectable in Nový Bydžov. As Beneš II Ješek son died in 1332, the estates were divided. Switch to the new rule Veseli included not only the parties and a Vorwerkshof the town Veseli and the villages Vlhošť, Hrobičany and SbEr. 1335 St. Nicholas Parish Church was first mentioned. Veseli was lying in those days, Nový Chlumec, Hradišťko and Žiželice one of the four Mediatstädtchen to the royal town of Nový Bydžov in Cidlinagebiet. From 1361 Beneš III was. Wartenberg owner of Veseli. He was followed in 1385 Peter von Wartenberg and after him Vinzenz von Wartenberg. 1425 were the Hussites in Veseli and plundered the town. In the same year was Heinrich von Wartenberg owner of Veseli, he bequeathed in 1434 the gentlemen Veliš, Jičín, Brada, Veseli, Nový Bydžov and Hradišťko his aunt Machna. With it went out in 1438, the line of waiting Berger of Veseli and the property fell to Hašek of Wallenstein.

Below the fortress Veseli was the administrative center of large estates around. The following owners were before 1522 Nicholas the Elder Karlík of Nežetice and 1533 the gender of the Bořek Dohalský of Dohalice. At that time belonged to the festivals next to the Barbican and the town the villages Velešice, Hrobičany and SbEr. 1544 Nicholas bought Bořek Vrbice, Veselska Lhota and part of Hradistko added. 1577 burned down Veseli including church and rectory. The parsonage was not rebuilt and 1577-1840 Veseli was gepfarrt after Velešice, where the family Bořek Dohalský her family had grave lay. 1580 Rudolf II granted at the request of Jan Bořek Dohalský Veseli the right to bear a coat of arms and to hold an annual cattle fair. 1616 was an inheritance among the descendants of Jaroslav Bořek Dohalský 1627 and sold in January Bedřich Bořek Dohalský Veseli to Albrecht von Wallenstein. 1633 Electoral Saxon troops plundered the town. After Wallenstein's assassination Hermann Nidrum received from troop deck, the rule Veseli. Since 1638 a town brewery is detectable. In the Berni rula 1654 42 property are reported for Veseli, of which eleven were desolate. In the same year were again Dohalský of Dohalice owner of Wessely. After the sale of the Zaruba of Hustířan on Čistá the festivals lost in 1672, its function as a manor house and was left to decay. 1689 bought Josef von Sternberg on Bechyně dominion Wessely and 1715 it fell by marriage Johann Leopold of couple. At that time belonged to the castle, a stately farmyard, a three Raden mill and a wine distillery. In the 18th century the town was referred to as Červené Veseli / Roth Wessely. The counts of pair left the festivals since 1745 rebuilt into a baroque castle, which, however, only served as the seat of manorial officials and as storage.

1747 had the town of 326 inhabitants. In the same year burned down 56 houses of 91 houses including the stately wine distillery, brewery urban and town hall with the clock tower. In rebuilding again emerged mostly wooden buildings. On the small side of a stately brewery was built. 1790 Roth Wessely had grown to 111 houses. In the 19th century, the name continued through high Wessely. Matěj Buva founded in 1825 in high Wessely the first chicory kk Monarchy. Later Antonín Kliment founded another chicory. 1835 broke another larger town fire from, in consequence of brick houses were built.

After the abolition of patrimonial Vysoke Veseli / Hochwessely formed in 1850, market town in the district of Nový Bydžov. The establishment of a joint-stock brewery west of the town at the pond Lhotak 1869 was provided. However, they failed for lack of capital. 1870 presented the old brewery operating. Karl von couple left in 1871 to build a large candy factory at the intended brewery location. Couple asked in 1871 unsuccessful in Central Bohemian orbit around support for the construction of a railroad Kopidlno - Hochwessely - Jitschin. The same happened in 1879 the municipal council with his application for establishment of a local train from Smidary about Chotělický and by the Veselský les after Vysoke Veseli, which was to end above the cemetery. Finally, the Austrian local railway company ( ÖLEG ) began the construction of the local railway Smidar - Hochwessely. In November 1881, the railway, which ended west of the town on the farm and the sugar factory was inaugurated. This means that the sugar factory was profitable, which was previously subsidized by pair. 1880 reached the town with 1490 inhabitants, the largest population in its history. On May 5, 1908 rose Emperor Franz Joseph I. Vesely Vysoke to the city.

The chicory Buva 1911 was converted into a public limited company. 1913, the sugar factory was a Schnitzeltrocknerei erweitert.1921 the Zichorienfabriken were united in Vysoke Veseli and Kolin. In 1924, the chicory a production and the building served as a granary. After the sale of the sugar factory at the Prague Credit Bank, the sugar factory was in 1927, only the processing of raw materials in the refinery of Skřivany and 1932 decommissioned and dismantled. 1930 lived 1220 people in Vysoke Vesely. Between 1939 and 1950 the pond Lhotak to Velkoveselký fishpond was built as a flood storage of Cidlina. Veselska Lhota was incorporated in 1947. 1948 were withdrawn together with Smidary and Žiželice city rights Vysoke Veseli. Since 1961, Vysoke Veseli belongs to Okres Jičín. The historical Zichoriendarre in 1962 destroyed by fire. In 1970, the population with a low of 757. The railway line Smidary - Vysoke Veseli was decommissioned in 1976. In 1974 a regulation of Cidlina between Veselska Lhota and Vysoke Veseli. This was further to Smidary continued in the 1980s, so that the meanders and small side arms disappeared. Since June 22, 2007 Vysoke Veseli is a city again.

Boroughs

The town of Vysoke Veseli consists of the districts Vysoke Veseli ( Hochwessely ) and Veselska Lhota ( Lhota Weselska ).

Attractions

• Church of Sts. Nicholas of Tolentino, the original Baroque structure was built in 1770 next to the castle and was connected with it by a bridge. After the fire of 1835 it was rebuilt in the Empire style.
• Castle Vysoke Veseli, the original fort was rebuilt in 1585 in the Renaissance style and inserted a stone relief with the coat of arms of the owner in January Bořek Dohalský of Dohalice and Barbara of Solopysk. In 1745 it was converted into a baroque palace and instead of the fortifications was a palace garden. After the fire of 1835 took place under Charles of pair of reconstruction in the Empire style. In 1950, the reconstruction of the castle began at a school. In this regardless of the value of confiscated partitions as a historic landmark and a part of the historic windows replaced by modern standard types. Between 1967 and 1969, eventually became the facade and other windows " modernized ".
• Renaissance corner house dating from 1586, on the market
• Marian column at the church, built in 1869 on the market. There she was eliminated in the 1970s and in 1977 moved to the church
• Implemented statue of the Virgin Mary in the New Town, the figure in 1808 was created in 1869 from the market at its current location
• Statue of St. Wenzel, on the way to the castle, donated in 1807 by the merchant Christoph Erban
• Statue of John the Baptist, between the Cidlina bridge and the engine house, built in 1761
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, created in 1777
• Nature Reserve Veselský háj a fishpond Smrkovák, southeast of the city

Sons and daughters of the town

• Václav Šimerka (1819-1887), Bohemian mathematician