Miskovice is a municipality and village in

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#Municipalit ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,100 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Miskovice consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Miskovice (403) *Bylany (222) *Hořany (83) *Mezholezy (49) *Přítoky (386)

Etymology

The initial name of the village was Myslkovice. The name was derived from the personal name Myslek, meaning "the village of Myslek's people". In the 15th century, the name was distorted to Miskovice.

Geography

Miskovice is located about west of

Kutná Hora Kutná Hora (; ) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The history of Kutná Hora is linked to silver mining, which made it a rich and rapidly developing town. The centre of Kutná Hora, i ...

and east 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 in an agricultural landscape in the

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. The highest point is at above sea level. The

Vrchlice The Vrchlice is a stream in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Klejnárka River. It flows through the Central Bohemian Region. It is long. Etymology The initial name of the stream was Vysplice. The German miners then began to call the s ...

Stream flows along the southern municipal border. Part of the Vrchlice Reservoir, built on the Vrchlice, is located within the territory of Miskovice.

History

The first written mention of Miskovice is from 1131.

Demographics

Transport

The I/2 road from Prague to

and

Pardubice Pardubice (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Repub ...

passes through the municipality.

Sights

A notable building is the former Renaissance fortress in Přítoky. It dates from the end of the 16th century. Later it was rebuilt into a homestead, but many Renaissance elements have been preserved. Near Bylany is the Spring of Saint Adalbert, which supplied Kutná Hora with drinking water in the Middle Ages. Above the spring stands the Chapel of St. Adalbert from the end of the 19th century, decorated with a statue of St. Adalbert from the first half of the 18th century.

Archaeology

In 2003, the first Czech fossil bones of a non-avian

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were found in an abandoned quarry in the municipality. These belong to a small

ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (). They represent one of the most successful groups of herbivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous. The most primitive members of the group were bipedal and relatively sm ...

related to the popular genus ''

Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species found worldwide have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, Taxonomy (bi ...

''.

Notable people

Antonietta Brandeis Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech lands, Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. Early life She was born on Ja ...

(1848–1926), Czech-Italian painter

References

External links

* {{authority control Villages in Kutná Hora District