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Historical development of Okříšky Klára Hobzová

Basic information Bohemian-Moravian Highlands altitude: 479,435 m above the sea territory: 658 ha population: number of houses: th May 2007 Okříšky = small town

Emblem awarded by the chairman of Parliament on 14 th May 2002 consits of: blue board (ponds) with golden trail wheel (importance of railway for development) and silver fleur-de-lis in M shape above (symbol of Virgin Mary church)

History first reference to Okříšky comes from 1371 the oldest surviving village name leads to the idea that the original name was the same as the name of nearby Okřešice (accoding to the personal name Okřeša = vzkřísiti-revive) since the 18 th century name Okříško, after the formation of the Czech republic name Okříšky were used (during protektorate - Klein Wartenberg)

Castle medieval fortress – prehussite epoch (reputedly 1375) Knights from Hrochov rebuilt the original building in late gothic style (after 1466) renaissance (16 th century) – village aristocratic residence was built, field researche showed that ochre sgraffito covered the front facade together with built up main quad front facade builder of the renaissance residence – Jiří Rechemberk from Želetice (1609) during the baroque recontruction sgraffito stucco of the ground floor walls up to the ledge was plastered by rustica of rectangulars

decorative stripes height 110 and 120 cm with mermaids (found in a probe on garden facade) the first 20 years of 18th century – wooden courtyard balcony was replaced by a brick two- storey arcade since 1945 the castle was used by „JZD“ small town took care of damaged castle and all the premises as a part of its possession in 2001

took place since July 2002 till August 2009 reconstruction was aproached as a return to baroque and classicism state of the castle from 19 th century is the result of the reconstruction first the rest home arised (40 flats), then the castle was reconstructed Ceiling paintings in previous dining room Reconstruction

Compounds of the castle

Course of reconstruction

Before After

Castle pond (church with the castle)

Name of Virgin Mary church the date of origin and the name of builder aren´t known (the church with a tower was situated there before the year 1500) so called grandstand church (the middle aged church wasn´t in the village but above it close to the castle, formerly a fortress) owners of the residence built a small church outside of the fortification the stands for the landlord and his family was a choir loft (entered through a roofed bridge from the fortress), the ground space served for the folks, the cemetery-churchyard was situated around the church

Virgin Mary church

Babí pond

Draining of the pond

Today the pond was replaced by tennis courts and a reservoir

Chronicle

Sources Newslettres of Okříšky - 2/2007 – ps. 3, /2008 – p /2009 – ps /2009 – ps. 10, 11 Chronicles of Okříšky1924 – 1938 – teacher Antonín Němeček 1977 – 2000 – Ladislav Krivjanský 2000 – 2011 – Hana Küthreiberová Black-white photos – Karel Dokulil

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