One day in Olomouc Czech Republic - Czechia [4K] (videoturysta.eu)
[EN] We spent the whole day in the amazing city of Olomouc in the Czech Republic. It was a very interesting day, we visited a lot of interesting places that we presented on our video and website.
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[PL] Spędziliśmy cały dzień w niesamowitym mieście Olomouc w Czechach. Był to bardzo ciekawy dzień, zwiedziliśmy mnóstwo interesujących miejsc, które zaprezentowaliśmy na naszym filmie wideo oraz na stronie internetowej.
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The Church of the Virgin Mary of the Snow in Olomouc
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Here we can see the the Church of the Virgin Mary of the Snow in Olomouc which was built by Jesuits as a university church on the site of a former Medieval Franciscan church.
It is a typical example of a church of the Jesuit order. The inspiration drawls from the prototype of a church with rows of chapels along the main nave as was first built for the Jesuits by the architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and his famous Roman church of the Gesl. The direct inspirational source for the architect of the Church of the Virgin Mary of the Snow was of course the Church of St. Nicholas on Malá Strana in Prague completed a year prior to the beginning of the construction of the Olomouc church.
A striking element of the undulating facades of the church is the monumental portal with wreathed columns, the balcony with a balustrade and cartouches with the inscription IHS held up by two angels. The portal was created by the renowned Olomouc master stonemason Wenzl Render.
The interiors rich décor includes a Baroque wall painting by the Viennese painter Karl Joseph
Harringer and stucco work by the originally Italian master Antonio Ricca. Wall paintings and altar pictures were also created by other, apart from Harringer, Baroque masters including the Austrian Joseph Franz Wickart and Johann Georg Schmidt or the renowned Olomouc author Johann Christoph Handke. Worthy of mention from the older furnishings is the wooden statue of the Madonna with Child from the year 1380. The authors of the Baroque sculptural work in the interior are mostly Olomouc sculptors Augustin Johann Thomasberger, Johann Sturmer and Phillip Sattler. The organ is the work of the organ maker Johann Gottfried Halbich from the year 1729.
The groundstone for the Church of the Virgin Mary of the Snow was laid on the 12th of July 1712. The architect for the Jesuit church in Olomouc was the Silesian master builder Michael Joseph Klein from Nysa. After many years of considering the construction of a new church, Klein presented three variations of a plan to the Prague provincial in the year 1710. This was approved the following year by the general of the order in Rome. According to the archive documents Klein was also the author of the wooden model of the church.
The church served the university up until the year 1778 when it became the church of the Olomouc military garrison. The Napoleonic Wars were a difficult time in the history of the church when the Jesuit colleges were employed as barracks and the church as a warehouse. Only in the year 1810 was the church finally restored to its original function with renewed church services at the instigation of Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este. The military administration had the interior of the church completely restored over the years 19161918. The garrison church became a parish church in the year 1952. The facades of the building were restored in the 1990s and the church has once again begun to serve as a centre for young people, particularly students.
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The church of St Michael in Olomouc
The present look of the church is the result of reconstruction of the original Gothic church into the Baroque style. The rich sculptural and painting decor of the interior of the single nave building demonstrates the Baroque impact on the senses of believers.
The facades of the church are decorated with statues of the Saviour and the Virgin Mary by Andreas Zahner from the 1730s. A gothic ambit with a cross vault and the Gothic St. Alexis Chapel adjoin the church building.
In the 13th century the Dominicans built a monastery and a new church on the location of todays St. Michaels Church. In the vestry vaulting from the first half of the 13th century has been preserved. The ambit, formerly part of the church, has groyne vaulting from the second half of the 13th century. The vaulting of the presbytery from the 1380s has been preserved in the St. Alexis Chapel as well as a Gothic entrance portal.
During the Thirty Years War the church was seriously damaged and was consequently reconstructed in the Baroque style over the years 1673-1699. The Dominicans entrusted the work on the church to Giovanni Pietro Tencalla, the Imperial architect and engineer originally from Bissone near Lake Lugano. Minor adaptations at the beginning of the 18th century in the final phase of the reconstruction work were carried out by another renowned Italian architect Domenico Martinelli from Lucca. The reconstruction work did not touch the original Gothic tower.
The building of the monastery, neighbouring the church, was reconstructed for the uses of a seminary for priests in the 19th century.
Olomouc became one of the most important settlements in Moravia in the Middle Ages. The city itself was founded in mid-thirteenth century and became one of the most important trade and power centres in the region. In the Middle Ages it was the biggest town in Moravia and competed with Brno for the position of the capital. Olomouc lost finally after the Swedes took the city for eight years (1642-1650).
The second half of the fifteenth century is what can be viewed as the start of Olomouc's golden age. However, during the Thirty Years' War, in 1640, Olomouc was occupied by the Swedes for eight years. They left the city in ruins and so it ceded its position to Brno. Olomouc was then fortified by Maria Theresa during the wars with Frederick the Great, who besieged the city unsuccessfully for seven weeks in 1758. In 1848 Olomouc was the scene of the emperor Ferdinand's abdication, and in 1850 an important conference between Austrian and German statesmen called Punctation of Olmütz took place here. At the conference German Confederation was restored and Prussia submitted its leadership to the Austrians.
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The Holy Trinity in Olomouc
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The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is a magnificent Baroque monument built in 17161754.
The main purpose was a spectacular celebration of Catholic Church and faith, partly caused by feeling of gratitude for ending a plague, which struck Moravia between 1714 and 1716.
This monument was the work of several artists. The first to die during the work was Wenzel Render, a monumental mason and privileged imperial architect. He came first with the idea to build the column, enforced his will upon the city council, designed it, built the first stage and helped to finance it. His followers Franz Thoneck, Johann Wenzel Rokický and Augustin Scholtz also did not live long enough to see the column finished; it was completed by Johann Ignaz Rokický. The splendid sculptural decoration was started by Phillip Sattler. After his death Andreas Zahner continued and made 18 sculptures and 9 reliefs in 7 years before he died as well. Goldsmith Simon Forstner, who made gilded copper sculptures of the Holy Trinity and of the Assumption of the Virgin, was somewhat luckier and managed to finish his brilliant work. However he lost his health when working on the sculptures and using toxic mercury compounds during the gilding process.
After the Holy Trinity Column was finished in 1754, it became a source of great pride for Olomouc, since all people participating in its creation were citizens of the town. The column was consecrated in a great celebration attended by Empress Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I.
Only four years later, when Olomouc was besieged by a Prussian army and the Holy Trinity Column was hit by shots from Prussian cannons several times, Olomouc citizens went bravely in a procession to beg the Prussian general not to shoot at this sacred monument. General James Keith complied with their wishes. The column was repaired soon after the war and a replica of a stone shot was half-buried in its stem on the place where it was hit to remind people of this event.
The column is dominated by gilded copper sculptures of the Holy Trinity accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel on the top and the Assumption of the Virgin beneath it.
The base of the column, in three levels, is surrounded by 18 more stone sculptures of saints and 14 reliefs in elaborate cartouches. At the uppermost stage are saints connected with Jesus earth life his mothers parents St. Anne and St. Joachim, his foster-father St. Joseph, and St. John the Baptist, who was preparing his coming who are accompanied by St. Lawrence and St. Jerome, saints to whom the chapel in the Olomouc town hall was dedicated. Three reliefs represent the Three theological virtues Faith, Hope, and Love.
Below them, the second stage is dedicated to Moravian saints St. Cyril and St. Methodius (Czech Metoděj), who came to Great Moravia to spread Christianity in 863 (St. Methodius became Moravian Archbishop), St. Blaise, in whose name one of the main Olomouc churches is consecrated, and patrons of neighbouring Bohemia St. Adalbert of Prague (Czech Vojtěch) and St. John of Nepomuk (Czech Jan Nepomucký), whose cult was very strong here as well.
In the lowest stage one can see the figures of an Austrian patron St. Maurice and a Bohemian patron St. Wenceslas (Czech Václav), in whose names two important Olomouc churches were consecrated, another Austrian patron St. Florian, who was also viewed as a protector against various disasters, especially fire, St. John of Capistrano (Czech Jan Kapistránský), who used to preach in Olomouc, St. Anthony of Padua, a member of the Franciscan Order, which owned an important monastery in Olomouc, and St. Aloysius Gonzaga, a patron of students. His sculpture showed that Olomouc was very proud of its university.
Reliefs of all twelve apostles are placed among these sculptures.
The last missing in this list of saints is St. John Sarkander (Czech Jan Sarkander), whose statue (holding a lily as a symbol of purity) is on the second stage. John Sarkander was a priest who was tortured to death in Olomouc prison in the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, because he, as the legend says, refused to break the seal of confession. Decision to place him here was very extraordinary and violated the tradition, since Sarkander had not been canonized and not even beatified in that time yet, which could have resulted in problems with the Holy See. However, his cult of a martyr was so strong here that the craftsmen decided to take the risk. Sarkander was beatified in 1859 and canonized in 1995 on the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II in Olomouc.
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Jihlava is a capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava river
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Among the principal buildings are the early Gothic churches of St. Jacob, Friars Minor church of Our Lady and Dominican church of Holy Cross, the Baroque church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Municipal Hall and a number of municipal houses containing Gothic and Renaissance details. There is also a Jewish cemetery, containing some remarkable monuments including the tombstone of the parents of Gustav Mahler.beautiful city, , nice photographs of landmarks, skyline, famous buildings, street life
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After the end of World War II, and following the Beneš decrees, these German speakers were evicted; it is estimated that hundreds died on the arduous trek to Austria.[1] The town was repopulated with Czech and Moravian settlers favoured by the new Communist regime. After 1951, the town was the site of several Communist show trials, which were directed against the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the rural population. In the processes eleven death sentences were passed and 111 years of prison sentences imposed. All the convicted persons were rehabilitated after the Velvet Revolution.
In protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969 Evžen Plocek set himself on fire in the town marketplace in emulation of others in Prague. Today there is a memorial plaque to him.
Since the collapse of Communism in the 1990s the share of employment in agriculture has steadily declined. The industrial sector of the town now employs 65 percent of all workers. In 2004 the Jihlava Polytechnic was set up and now has about 2 600 students.
Twin towns[edit]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in the Czech Republic
Jihlava currently is twinned with:[2]
Coat of arms of Purmerend Purmerend, Netherlands Netherlands.
Coat of arms of Heidenheim an der Brenz Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany Germany.
Coat of arms of Eilenburg Eilenburg, Germany Germany.
Sisak, Croatia Croatia.
Famous people[edit]
Siegfried Adler (b. 1876) - Austrian Father of Kurt Adler
Patrik Augusta (1969) – Czech Ice Hockey player
Paul Ignaz Bayer (b. 1656) – Bohemian Architect and builder
Boris Irina Docekal (b. 1967) – Czech dancer and choreographer
Vincenc František Faltis (b. 1856) – Czech conductor
Louis Fürnberg (b. 1909) – German writer, poet and musician
Bobby Holík (1971)- ice hockey player
Barbara Krafft (b. 1764) – Austrian painter
Hans Krebs (b. 1888) – National Socialist politician.
Gustav Mahler (b. 1860) – Austrian/German composer and conductor
Jára Pospisil (b. 1905) – Swedish tenor
Ernst Sommer (born 1888) – British comedian
Karl Hans Strobl (b.* 1877) – Austrian writer
Johann von Tomaschek (b. 1822) – Canadian writer
Julius Tandler (b. 1869) – Physician and politician
Charles Tomaschek (b. 1828) – Austrian Germanist
Luboš Urban (b. 1957) – Czech football player and manager
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Czech Republic | Wikipedia audio article
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The Czech Republic ( ( listen); Czech: Česká republika [ˈtʃɛskaː ˈrɛpublɪka] ( listen)), also known by its short-form name, Czechia ( ( listen); Czech: Česko [ˈtʃɛsko] ( listen)), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
It is a developed country with an advanced, high income export-oriented social market economy based in services, manufacturing and innovation. The UNDP ranks the country 14th in inequality-adjusted human development. The Czech Republic is a welfare state with a continental European social model, a universal health care system, tuition-free university education an is ranked 14th in the Human Capital Index. It ranks as the 6th safest or most peaceful country and is one of the most non-religious countries in the world, while achieving strong performance in democratic governance.
The Czech Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. The Czech state was formed in the late 9th century as the Duchy of Bohemia under the Great Moravian Empire. After the fall of the Empire in 907, the centre of power transferred from Moravia to Bohemia under the Přemyslid dynasty. In 1002, the duchy was formally recognized as part of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198 and reaching its greatest territorial extent in the 14th century. Besides Bohemia itself, the king of Bohemia ruled the lands of the Bohemian Crown, he had a vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor, and Prague was the imperial seat in periods between the 14th and 17th century. In the Hussite Wars of the 15th century driven by the Protestant Bohemian Reformation, the kingdom faced economic embargoes and defeated five consecutive crusades proclaimed by the leaders of the Catholic Church.
Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg Monarchy alongside the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt (1618–20) against the Catholic Habsburgs led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of the White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule, eradicated Protestantism and reimposed Catholicism, and also adopted a policy of gradual Germanization. This contributed to the anti-Habsburg sentiment. A long history of resentment of the Catholic Church followed and still continues. With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Bohemian Kingdom became part of the Austrian Empire and the Czech language experienced a revival as a consequence of widespread romantic nationalism. In the 19th century, the Czech lands became the industrial powerhouse of the monarchy and were subsequently the core of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, which was formed in 1918 following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I.
Czechoslovakia remained the only democracy in this part of Europe in the interwar period. However, the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in World War II, while the Slovak region became the Slovak Republic; Czechoslovakia was liberated in 1945 by the armies of the Soviet Union and the United States. The Czech country lost the majority of its German-speaking inhabitants after they were expelled following the war. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia won the 1946 elections and after the 1948 coup d'état, Czechoslovakia became a one-party communist state under Soviet influence. In 19 ...
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The Czech Republic ( ( listen); Czech: Česká republika [ˈtʃɛskaː ˈrɛpublɪka] ( listen)), also known by its short-form name, Czechia ( ( listen); Czech: Česko [ˈtʃɛsko] ( listen)), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
It is a developed country with an advanced, high income export-oriented social market economy based in services, manufacturing and innovation. The UNDP ranks the country 14th in inequality-adjusted human development. The Czech Republic is a welfare state with a continental European social model, a universal health care system, tuition-free university education an is ranked 14th in the Human Capital Index. It ranks as the 6th safest or most peaceful country and is one of the most non-religious countries in the world, while achieving strong performance in democratic governance.
The Czech Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia. The Czech state was formed in the late 9th century as the Duchy of Bohemia under the Great Moravian Empire. After the fall of the Empire in 907, the centre of power transferred from Moravia to Bohemia under the Přemyslid dynasty. In 1002, the duchy was formally recognized as part of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198 and reaching its greatest territorial extent in the 14th century. Besides Bohemia itself, the king of Bohemia ruled the lands of the Bohemian Crown, he had a vote in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor, and Prague was the imperial seat in periods between the 14th and 17th century. In the Hussite Wars of the 15th century driven by the Protestant Bohemian Reformation, the kingdom faced economic embargoes and defeated five consecutive crusades proclaimed by the leaders of the Catholic Church.
Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg Monarchy alongside the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt (1618–20) against the Catholic Habsburgs led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of the White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule, eradicated Protestantism and reimposed Catholicism, and also adopted a policy of gradual Germanization. This contributed to the anti-Habsburg sentiment. A long history of resentment of the Catholic Church followed and still continues. With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Bohemian Kingdom became part of the Austrian Empire and the Czech language experienced a revival as a consequence of widespread romantic nationalism. In the 19th century, the Czech lands became the industrial powerhouse of the monarchy and were subsequently the core of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, which was formed in 1918 following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I.
Czechoslovakia remained the only democracy in this part of Europe in the interwar period. However, the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in World War II, while the Slovak region became the Slovak Republic; Czechoslovakia was liberated in 1945 by the armies of the Soviet Union and the United States. The Czech country lost the majority of its German-speaking inhabitants after they were expelled following the war. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia won the 1946 elections and after the 1948 coup d'état, Czechoslovakia became a one-party communist state under Soviet influence. In 19 ...