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Žehušice
Žehušice is a market town in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. Administrative division Žehušice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Žehušice (755) *Bojmany (83) Etymology The name is derived from the personal name Žehuš, meaning "the village of Žehuš's people". Geography Žehušice is located about east of Kutná Hora and west of Pardubice. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape in the Central Elbe Table. The market town is situated on the left bank of the Doubrava River, at the confluence of the Doubrava with the Brslenka Stream. History The first written mention of Žehušice is from 1350. The village was promoted to a market town in 1540 by Emperor Ferdinand I, but it lost this title in 1601. From 1661 to 1918, Žehušice was owned by the Thun und Hohenstein family. In 1865, Žehušice was once again promoted to a market town. Demographics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deer Park Žehušice
Deer Park Žehušice () is a nature monument in the municipal territory of Žehušice in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Location The deer park is located about east of Kutná Hora. History Deer Park Žehušice was founded by the Thun-Hohenstein family in 1867. In 1826, Count Matthias Thun-Hohenstein decided to drain the fish pond ''Kravinec'' located behind Žehušice Castle and to build a fence around the area. A park consisting of meadows and groves, covering about 2.5 km², was created. Four years later, Matthias obtained several white deer from Count Kinsky from Chlumec nad Cidlinou. The origin of the deer is disputed but the species were likely either from India or Persia. The particular breed was short-lived and the herds held at the same time by Counts Kinsky, Czernin and Schwarzenberg were on the verge of dying out. However, the herd in Žehušice has been bred continually. The owners failed to obtain new white deer to introduce fresh blood i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Punto
Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice – 16 February 1803 in Prague) was a Czechs, Czech French horn, horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes. Early life Stich was born in Žehušice in Bohemia. His father was a serfdom, serf bonded to the estate of Count Joseph Johann Thun und Hohenstein, but Stich was taught singing, violin and finally the horn. The Count sent him to study horn under Joseph Matiegka in Prague, Jan Schindelarz in Munich, and finally with A. J. Hampel in Dresden (from 1763 to 1764). Hampel first taught Stich the hand-stopping technique which he later improved and extended. Stich then returned to the service of the Count, where he remained for the next four years. At the age of 20 Stich and four friends ran away from the estate. The Count, who had invested heavily in Stich's education, dispatched soldiers with orders to knock out Stich's fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kutná Hora District
Kutná Hora District () is a Okres, district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Kutná Hora. Administrative division Kutná Hora District is divided into two Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with extended competence, administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Kutná Hora and Čáslav. List of municipalities Towns are marked in bold and market towns in ''italics'': Adamov (Kutná Hora District), Adamov - Bernardov - ''Bílé Podolí'' - Bludov (Kutná Hora District), Bludov - Bohdaneč - Brambory (Kutná Hora District), Brambory - Bratčice (Kutná Hora District), Bratčice - Čáslav - Čejkovice (Kutná Hora District), Čejkovice - Černíny - Červené Janovice - Čestín - Chabeřice - Chlístovice - Chotusice (Kutná Hora District), Chotusice - Církvice (Kutná Hora District), Církvice - Dobrovítov - Dolní Pohleď - Drobovice - Hlízov - Horka I - Horka II - Horky (Kutná Hora District), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubrava (river)
The Doubrava is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It flows through the Vysočina Region, Vysočina, Pardubice Region, Pardubice and Central Bohemian Region, Central Bohemian regions. It is long. Etymology The Czech word ''doubrava'' means 'oak forest' (derived from ''dub'' = 'oak'). However, the name did not express the character of the entire stream (that the river would flow through oak forests), but this type of name was most often created according to the groups of trees that grew at its mouth. Characteristic The Doubrava originates in the territory of Radostín (Žďár nad Sázavou District), Radostín on the border between the Křižanov Highlands and Upper Sázava Hills, at an elevation of . The river has three marked springs, lying close to each other. Due to human activity (draining marshes and regulating water courses), the yield of the springs has changed over time, and it is not clear which spring is the main one. The Doubrava flows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thun Und Hohenstein
The House of Thun und Hohenstein, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Austrian nobility, Austrian and Bohemian nobility. There is one princely and several count, comital branches of the family. The princely branch of the family lived at Děčín () in Bohemia for more than 200 years. The family maintained an expansive library, including two important albums depicting artistically and technologically innovative armour made for the Habsburg court during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. History A feudalism, feudal family originally from Ton, Trentino, formerly an Italian-speaking part of Tyrol (state), Tyrol (today part of the Trentino province of Italy), the male line traces back to Manfreinus of Tunno in 1187.Almanach de Gotha, ''Thun und Hohenstein''. Justus Perthes, 1944, p. 539 (in French). In 1469, they became hereditary cup-bearers of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trento, Prince-bishopric of Trent and in 1558 of the Roman Catholic Diocese of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moorish Architecture
Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture that developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb). Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic West or architecture of the Western Islamic lands. This architectural tradition integrated influences from pre-Islamic Roman, Byzantine, and Visigothic architectures, from ongoing artistic currents in the Islamic Middle East, and from North African Berber traditions. Major centers of artistic development included the main capitals of the empires and Muslim states in the region's history, such as Córdoba, Kairouan, Fes, Marrakesh, Seville, Granada and Tlemcen. While Kairouan and Córdoba were some of the most important centers during the 8th to 10th centuries, a wider regional style was later synthesized and shared across the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Style
The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 during the Consulate and the First French Empire periods, although its life span lasted until the late-1820s. From France it spread into much of Europe and the United States. The Empire style originated in and takes its name from the rule of the Emperor Napoleon I in the First French Empire, when it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state. The previous fashionable style in France had been the Directoire style, a more austere and minimalist form of Neoclassicism that replaced the Louis XVI style, and the new Empire style brought a full return to ostentatious richness. The style corresponds somewhat to the '' Biedermeier style'' in the German-speaking lands, Federal style in the United States, and the Regency st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Monument (Czech Republic)
The cultural monuments of the Czech Republic ( Czech: ''kulturní památka'') are protected properties (both real and movable properties) designated by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Cultural monuments that constitute the most important part of the Czech cultural heritage may be declared national cultural monuments ( Czech: ''národní kulturní památka'') by a regulation of the Government of the Czech Republic. The government may also proclaim a territory, whose character and environment are determined by a group of immovable cultural monuments or archaeological finds, as a whole, as a monument reservation. The Ministry of Culture may proclaim a territory of a settlement with a smaller number of cultural monuments, a historical environment or part of a landscape area that displays significant cultural values as a monument zone. As of 2019, there are 14 Czech cultural monuments on the World Heritage List. Proclaiming Objects as Cultural Monuments The criter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kačina
Kačina is a significant Empire style castle in Svatý Mikuláš in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. In 1945, it was designated a national property. History Kačina was built from 1806 to 1824 in place of the defunct medieval village of Kačín as a prestige mansion of the supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia and president of the governorate, Jan Rudolf Chotek (1748–1824). The architectural scheme was drawn up by Saxons, Saxon royal architect Christian Franz Schuricht (1753–1832) from Dresden. In the last few years of construction, Johann Philipp Jöndl (1782–1870) also controlled the construction. He also eminently influenced the final appearance of the castle. Functionally, the castle is divided into three parts. The main (central) building with exquisite halls was the residence of the family, with two-quarter circle adjacent lower wings with pillared colonnades where the guest rooms were situated. To those wings were connected other pavilions. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Stag
A white stag (or white hind for the female) is a white-colored red deer, elk, sika deer, chital, reindeer, or moose. A white deer from species such as fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, or rusa, is instead referred to as a “white buck” or “white doe”. The all-white coloration is the result of leucism, a condition that causes hair and skin to lose its natural pigmentation. The white deer has played a prominent role in the mythology of many cultures. Biology Leucism is a rare genetic pattern that causes a reduction in the pigment of an animal's hair and skin. The natural colour of the red deer ranges from dark red to brown. They are often thought to be albinos; however, unlike albinos, who have characteristically red eyes, deer with leucism have normal colouring in their eyes. It is distinguished biologically from albinism in that it causes a reduced pigmentation in all skin types, and not just melanin. There is also a black color morph of the wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kostel may refer to: * Kostel, Kostel, a settlement in the Municipality of Kostel, Slovenia * Municipality of Kostel, Slovenia * Kostel, Croatia, a village near Pregrada, Croatia * Kostel, German name of the Czech town of Podivín * Kostel Pribićki, a village near Krašić, Croatia * Kostel, Bulgaria, a village in Elena Municipality * Pietrapelosa Pietrapelosa () is a castle in the Croatian part of Istria, now ruined. In the medieval period a family took their name from the castle. "Pietrapelosa" comes from the Italian words meaning "hairy stone" after the moss that has always grown on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
