Horoměřice is a municipality and village in
Prague-West District
Prague-West District () is a district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Prague. The most populated town of the district is Jesenice.
Administrative division
Prague-West District is formed by only one administ ...
in the
Central Bohemian Region
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of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 5,500 inhabitants making it the
most populous municipality in the country without the town status.
Geography
Horoměřice is situated northwest of
Prague
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, in its immediate vicinity. It lies in an agricultural landscape of the
Prague Plateau.
History
The first written mention of Horoměřice is from 1273. Back then it was owned by the
Strahov Monastery. The monastery lost the village during 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 ...
in 1421, but after changing hands several times, the monastery owned it continuously from 1598 until establishment of the municipality.
Demographics
Transport
There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.
Sights
In the municipality is a simple castle from the 18th century, which belonged to the Strahov Monastery until 1945. Today it is owned by the municipality, which intends to reconstruct and use it for social and cultural purposes.
Notable people
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Benedikt Roezl (1824–1885), traveller, gardener and botanist
References
External links
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Villages in Prague-West District