Dětenice is a municipality and village in

Jičín District Jičín District () is a Okres, district in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Jičín. Administrative division Jičín District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Dětenice consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Dětenice (353) *Brodek (124) *Osenice (214)

Etymology

The initial name of the village was Dětynice. The name was derived from the personal name Dětyně, meaning "the village of Dětyně's people".

Geography

Dětenice is located about southwest of

Jičín Jičín (; or ''Gitschin'') is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument reservatio ...

and northeast of

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. It lies mostly in the

Central Elbe Table The Central Elbe Table () is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Central Bohemian Region, but due to its size, it also extends to other regions. The axis of the plateau is the Elbe River, ...

. The northernmost part of the municipal territory belongs to the

Jičín Uplands The Jičín Uplands () are uplands and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the Hradec Králové, Liberec and Central Bohemian regions. Geomorphology The Jičín Uplands are a mesoregion of the North Bohemian ...

and includes the highest point of Dětenice at above sea level.

History

The first written mention of Dětenice is from 1052, when Duke

Bretislav I Bretislav I (; 1002/1005 – 10 January 1055), known as the "Bohemian Achilles", of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 1034 until his death in 1055. Youth Bretislav was the son of Duke Oldřich and his low-born concubine Božena. ...

donated the village to the collegiate church in Stará Boleslav. Then the village was divided into two parts; one was acquired by the Prague bishopric and one was owned by various noblemen. Beneš Markvartic (1269–1318) founded here a fortress. After the

Hussite Wars The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, a ...

, the village was united. In 1503, the Dětenice estate was bought by the Lords of Křinec. Their properties were confiscated after the

Battle of White Mountain The Battle of White Mountain (; ) was an important battle in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War. It led to the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt and ensured Habsburg control for the next three hundred years. It was fought on 8 November 16 ...

in 1620 and Dětenice was then acquired by

Albrecht von Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (; 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618–16 ...

. The

Waldstein family The House of Waldstein (Valdstejn, Valdonio, or Wallenstein) is an old, wealthy and important noble family from Central Europe (Germany and the Czech Republic). They owned many castles across Europe. Origin The House of Waldstein or House of V ...

owned Dětenice until the mid-18th century.

Demographics

Transport

There are no major roads passing through the municipality. The railway that runs through Dětenice is unused.

Sights

The most important monument is the Dětenice Castle. It was originally a medieval fortress, rebuilt in the Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century. In 1762–1765, the fortress was rebuilt into the late Baroque castle. Today the castle is privately owned and is open to the public. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is located in Osenice. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque style in 1863–1865.

Notable people

Miloš Hájek Miloš Hájek (12 May 1921 – 25 February 2016) was a Czech historian, politician and Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak resistance fighter during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945). Hájek, who signed the Charter 77 human rights mani ...

(1921–2016), historian, politician and resistance fighter

References

External links

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Dětenice Castle
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