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Statistics | | Area: | 33 Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 m2 100 hectares 0.386 102 square miles...
km² | | Population: | 21,280 (2003) | | Map |  | Kutná Hora To play the audio file do not click on the -image. Look for a Listen-link near this icon. Click on the back button of your browser to go back to the article and try again. File links The following pages link to this file: Alfred Nobel Adalbert of Prague...
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Czech Republic, in Statistics Capital: Prague Area:11,014 km² Population:1,128,674 (2002) Map Central Bohemian Region ( Czech: Středočeský kraj) is an administrative unit ( Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the central part of its historical region of Bohemia. Its administrative center is...
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History The town of Kutná Hora owes its origin to the General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5 , d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2.5 Appearance Lustrous white metal Atomic properties Atomic weight 107.8683 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 160 (165) pm Covalent radius 153 pm van der Waals radius 172...
silver mines, the existence of which can be traced back to the first part of the 13th century. The city developed with great rapidity, and at the outbreak of the The Hussite Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434. The Hussite Wars were arguably the first European war in which hand-held gunpowder weapons such as muskets made a decisive contribution. Origins The Hussite movement...
Hussite Wars, early in the 15th century, was next to Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river in central Bohemia, it is home to approximately 1.2 million inhabitants. (It can be derived from jobs statistics, however, that additional 300,000 work there without having registered as residents...
Prague the most important in Bohemia, having become the favourite residence of several of the Czech kings. It was here that, on January 18, 1419, Wenceslaus (German: Wenzel; sometimes known as the Drunkard, Czech: Václav IV) of the house of Luxembourg (born February 26, 1361, died August 16, 1419) succeeded his father Charles IV as Holy Roman Emperor (ruled 1378 - 1400) and as king of Bohemia (ruled 1378 - 1419). Accusing Wenceslaus of devoting far...
Wenceslaus IV signed the famous decree of Kutná Hora, by which the Czech nation was given three votes in the elections to the faculty of The Charles University of Prague (also simply University of Prague; Czech: Univerzita Karlova; Latin: Universitas Carolina) is the oldest and most prestigious Czech university and among the oldest universities in Europe, being founded in 1340s (for the exact year, see below). History Most Czech sources at least since at least...
Prague University as against one for the three other "nations" ( The Charles University of Prague (also simply University of Prague; Czech: Univerzita Karlova; Latin: Universitas Carolina) is the oldest and most prestigious Czech university and among the oldest universities in Europe, being founded in 1340s (for the exact year, see below). History Most Czech sources at least since at least...
more details). In 1420 the emperor Sigismund (February 14/15, 1368 - December 9, 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 to 1437. (Non-contemporary) portrait by Albrecht Dürer The third and last German Emperor and fourth Bohemian king of the Luxembourg dynasty, Sigismund, second son of the Emperor Charles IV, was born in Nuremberg. Through...
Sigismund made the city the base for his unsuccessful attack on the A Taborite (Czech Táborita) was a member of religious protestant community of the Bohemian city of Tábor during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century The people joined local peasants to develop a communist-like society. They announced the Millennium of Christ and declared there would be no...
Taborites; Kutná Hora was taken by Jan Zizka (or John Zizka from Trocnov, Czech: Jan Žižka z Trocnova) (c. 1370-1424), Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus, was born at Trocnov in Bohemia, of a family which belonged to the gentry. He took part in the civil wars in Bohemia...
Jan Žižka, and after a temporary reconciliation of the warring parties was burned by the imperial troops in 1422, to prevent its falling again into the hands of the Taborites. Žižka none the less took the place, and under Bohemian auspices it awoke to a new period of prosperity. In 1541 the richest mine was hopelessly flooded; in the insurrection of Bohemia against Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (March 10, 1503 - July 27, 1564) was one of the Habsburg emperors that at various periods during his life ruled over Austria, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary. Ferdinand was born in Madrid, the son of Philip von Habsburg (1478-1506) and his wife Juana of Castile...
Ferdinand I the city lost all its privileges; repeated visitations of the plague and the horrors of the The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the Central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. It occurred for a number...
Thirty Years' War completed its ruin. Half-hearted attempts after the peace to repair the ruined mines failed; the town became impoverished, and in 1770 was devastated by fire. The mines were abandoned at the end of the 18th century.
Architecture Amongst its most important buildings are the Gothic five-naved Church of St. Barbara, begun in 1368, and the Cathedral of our Lady at Sedlec, which are also among the Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage...
World Heritage Sites. The Italian Court, formerly a royal residence and mint, was built at the end of the 13th century, and the Gothic Stone Haus, which since 1902 serves as museum, contains one of the richest archives in the Republic.
There is also the famous Left side of altar with bone monstrance Chandelier made of bones and skulls The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in...
Sedlec ossuary (kostnice in Czech) in one of the city's suburbs.
The ossuary is a little church that looks ordinary from the outside. But inside, the bones of 40,000 people decorate the walls and ceilings. Fourteenth-century plagues and 15th-century wars provided all the raw material necessary for monks to vent their creative spirit. The monks who first stacked these bones 400 years ago wanted viewers to remember that the earthly church is a community of both the living and the dead — a countless multitude that will one day stand before God. Later bone-stackers were more into design than theology — a chandelier includes every bone in the human body.
Kutná Hora today Since 1995 city center become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. -
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