10. Culturally Historical Wandering around Slaný
Třebíz – Klobuky – Čeradice – Páleček – Stradonice – Lisovice – Vyšínek – Páleč – Peruc
TŘEBÍZ
The beginnings of the village and the local fortress are not documented in writing. The Ethnical Musem in Třebíz is dedicated to the folk culture of the local region. It is a proof of the development of folk building industry, way of living, agricultural farming, and village life in general. House No. 1, called Cífkův statek, the seat of the reeve with a right to run a tap-room, with a grange, a cellar, stables, and other farm buildings. House No. 4 has an interior of a little village shop, little cottages No. 62 and 64, originally the rent-charges of the estates, and No. 10 and 11, former cottars´ houses, equipped correspondingly to the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. House No. 10 shelters a half-timbered, rammed earth barn in the garder, documenting the construction style of the end of the 17th and of the 18th century. Also house No. 2 – called Šubrtův statek – presents an interesting example of folk architecture around Slaný.
St. Martin´s Baroque Chapel in the village green dates back to the half of the 18th century.
The house where the priest and the writer Václav Beneš Třebízský was born (No. 19) was open to public in 1904, and it is a permanent exposition documenting his life and works.
Above the village, there are sandstone rocks with caved cellars and a Piety embossment from an unknown folk artist. On the rock, there is a monument dedicated to Václav Beneš Třebízský on the 14th August 1892. The authors were František Hergessel and František Procházka. From Třebíz, we will set off along road No. 237 leading to Klobuky.
KLOBUKY
The first written documents about the village are from 1226. In the beginning of the 14th century, the local rulers built a fortress with a church under the hill, or a ruler´s court. The first remarks about a church with a vicarage school are from 1352. In place of this church, the present St. Laurence Church was built anew in 1729, with a dominant tower and adjacent cemetery. Memorial plaques on the church and on the vicarage remind of the local activities of Jindřich Šimon Baar, the writer, in 1899-1909. At the cemetery, there are tombs of important families of Zapa and Malypetr. An alcove chapel in the village is from the 19th century. Feudal brewery was already here at the turn of the 16th and the 17th century. In 1705, the canonry abolished all the breweries within the dominion, and the modernized brewery in Klobuky remained the only one. In 1904, the Schwarzenbergs bought the brewery, and they made it a subsidiary of their brewery in Louny. In 1906, the brewery got a new malt house, where malt was made until 1938. Beer brewing stopped in 1921 in this brewery. Ancient linden tree in the brewery´s courtyard became a commemorative theme for the Svatopluk Čech´s works, the writer who spent his childhood and student years in our region. His father was the manager of the Vraný dominion. The sugar mill established in 1871, and completed in 1872, was the only guild – agricultural sugar mill in our region. The Sokol house was open by a great Sokol festival, and a gathering of the Sladkovský Sokol district on the 15th July 1923. On the same day, also the memorial plaque on the house where Jan Malypetr was born (1815-1890) was dedicated to this physical training teacher, and co-founder of the Czech physical training. In the same house, also the Karel Malypetr was born (1815-1880) – a lawyer, archaeologist, nationist, and the first trainer of Sokol in Prague – and Jan Malypetr (1873-1947) – a minister and chairman of the chamber of deputies. A new memorial plaque on the Malypetr family house was dedicated in August 2003. Above the village, on the right hand side, in a field next to the road to Telce, there is a monumental menhir called Stone Man.
We will walk on past Čeradice to get to Páleček.
PÁLEČEK
A stone belfry is worth our attention, originally with three bells (now only two), the greatest of which is the work of Brikcí of Cimperk, and a Late-Baroque charnel house, built together with the Church of Visitation of Virgin Mary in 1776-1778. Wall paintings with scenes from the Old and the New Testament were preserved in the charnel house interior. These painted decorations are unique in our region, as well as the Baroque charnel house.
STRADONICE
The first remarks appeared as early as 1318. During the construction works on a road leading from Slaný to Budyně, fragments of bronze bracelets were found here, and a lot of urns from a pagan burial ground were found in the "Na Okrouhlíku" locality. There are monuments of folk architecture here, like the mill, No. 22, with a bricked storeyed grinding room from the 2nd half of the 18th century, and ground-floor farming buildings. There is a Baroque sculpture of St. John and Paul from 1782. At the end of the village, in the direction of Páleč, there is a stone Calvary, 230 cm high. We will continue to Vyšínek, past Lisovice.
VYŠÍNEK
The village was first mentioned in 1263 as the property of the chief justice named Čeč, who sold or donated the village, together with Drchkov, to the Prague Canonry of All Saints at the Prague Castle. A Baroque farming house No. 5 is interesting, having the Kinský family emblem in the portal. The cross in the village green is from 1855.
Feudal Court in Vyšínek
The farming court used to be a part of the Zlonice dominion. It was one of the 23 feudal courts, which belonged to this dominion in 1845, and which even today form expressive constructional dominants in a lot of villages around Zlonice. A storeyed Baroque grange was declared a nationally protected cultural monument in 2003, together with the neighbouring stables and the barn. The grange is the oldest building in this group, there is a datation 1739 on the entrance portal with the emblem of count Filip Josef Kinský. The original four-storey wooden interior was preserved, being a demonstration of professional carpenter work of our predecessors. Since 2001, it has served the purposes of a seat of a civic association named Aranka – Dvůr Vyšínek, which deals with educational and sport programmes for children and the youth. There is a western horse-riding club here.
PÁLEČ
The village was first documented in 1318. The local rulers built a fortress with a round tower on the right bank of the stream, on a hill above the village. The fortress became extinct during the Thirty Years´ War. A renewed Baroque cross from 1712 in the village green is an interesting monument. The Gothic single-isle Church of the Birth of Virgin Mary was already mentioned in the years 1333-38. On the southern portal, there is an emblem of Bishop Jan IV of Dražice. At the cemetery near the church, there is a Baroque mortuary (charnel house). We will arrive at Peruc, passing through Vraný. On the left hand side, in a field near the road to Peruc, there is a memorial of the Three Emperors´ Encounter. The military memorial was built here in 1913, to commemorate a centennary anniversary of the victorious war against Napoleon. In 1813, a great military review of the allied armies of the attending Russian tzar Alexander I., Prussian king Frederick Wilhelm III., and Austrian emperor Francis I. took place in the fields between Vraný and Peruc.
PERUC
The first remarks about the village date back to 1170. Around the 12th or the 13th century, a castle was built here, which is documented by a finding of old Romanic cellarage, perhaps the dungeon, in the castle´s northern wing. The castle used to stand above a strong spring, which runs out of the cellarage into the Božena fountain, mentioned for the first time as early as 1401. In place of the castle, Jetřich of Peruc built a strong fortress in 1319. A number of families had the village and the castle in possession during the 15th and the 16th century. At the time of the Ledebur family, in the years 1760-70, the Renaissance castle was rebuilt in a Rococo style. During the occupation, and then until 1954, the castle served the purposes of a depository for the University Library in Leipzig. In the southern part of the castle, academic painter Emil Filla lived and worked, and after he died, his memorial hall was open here. Sculptural decorations of the castle´s front are from the workshop of Mr. Platzer, the sculptor. Under the castle´s north wing, there is the Božena fountain, and a little lower down the road to Slavětín, there is the hundreds-of-years old Oldřich´s oak. The originally medieval Church of St. Peter and Paul has been mentioned as a vicarage church since 1384. It was built anew in the years 1724-1725, and renewed in 1824. There are the statues of St. Václav and of St. John of Nepomuk in the niches alongside the entrance, there is the statue of Christ above them, with St. Peter and Paul by his side, the church´s patrons. The gable above the entrance portal commemorates the year of the completion of the building (1724), and both the founders of the church, Alexandr Jan and Anna Alžběta of Ledebur. The church together with the vicarage, the village green, and the castle create a beautiful baroque unit. The statue of St. John of Nepomuk near the church was made by K. I. Platzer, dated 1857. The memorial for the killed in World War I in the square is the work of E. Kodet from 1922.
The overall length of the track is 22.5 km. It is suitable for tourists, also on bicycles. The path includes roads of the 2nd and 3rd class. From Peruc, it is also possible to take the train to Slaný, or continue on marked cycling tracks.
Třebíz – Klobuky 3,4 km
Klobuky – Čeradice 1,5 km
Čeradice – Páleček 1,3 km
Páleček – Stradonice/Lisovice 3,7 km
Lisovice – Vyšínek 1,3 km
Vyšínek – Páleč 2,6 km
Páleč – Peruc 8,7 km
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