Byšice is a municipality and village in

Mělník District Mělník District ( cs, okres Mělník) is a district ('' okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Mělník. Complete list of municipalities Býkev - Byšice - Chlumín - Chorušice - Chvatěrub ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,400 inhabitants.

Etymology

The name is believed to originate from the personal name Byš.

Geography

Byšice is located about southeast of

Mělník Mělník (; german: Melnik) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Mělník lies in one of the most im ...

and north of

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. It lies in the

Jizera Table The Jizera Table ( cs, Jizerská tabule) is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Central Bohemian Region, northeast of Prague. Geomorphology The Jizera Table is a mesoregion of the Centra ...

plateau.

History

The first written mention of Byšice is from 1321. The settlement was founded on a trade route from

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. It was an agricultural and market village, in the 19th century it was a

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. The seal comes from the 15th or 16th century. The coat of arms is derived from this seal.

Demographics

Economy

In Byšice is located one of the most significant Czech food-producing companies, ''Vitana''. The company was founded in 1919 as ''Graf'' and it was moved to Byšice in 1927. In 2013, it became a part of the

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conglomerate. A large part of the municipal territory is agricultural land, which is managed by several entities.

Sights

The most valuable building is the Church of St. John the Baptist. It is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

building from 1690–1693. The church has been protected as a cultural monument. The church is a single rectangular building. It has a rectangular, triangular-ended presbytery. There is a rectangular sacristy in the axis of the building. The façade of the church is divided by pilasters. There are niches in the side fields of the façade. In the middle of the facade is a rectangular portal with a supraport and a rectangular window with a segmental niche. In the side parts of the facade above the pilasters takes place laying. Above the middle part is a ledge. The façade is finished with a wing gable with vases, pilasters and niches. The side facades have lysine frames and semicircular windows. The presbytery and the sacristy have a barrel vault with

lunette A lunette (French ''lunette'', "little moon") is a half-moon shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void. A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc take ...

s. The ship has a flat ceiling. There is an indistinct stucco decoration on the vault and wall of the presbytery and the semicircular triumphal arch. The walls of the nave are divided by cornice pilasters with stucco decoration. There are stucco cut fields on the ceiling of the ship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bysice Villages in Mělník District