Dobrovíz is a municipality and village in
Prague-West District in the
Central Bohemian Region of the
Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. The village has well preserved folk architecture and is protected by law as a
village monument reservation.
Geography
Dobrovíz is located about west of
Prague. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the
Prague Plateau
The Prague Plateau ( cs, Pražská plošina) is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the area of Prague and in the Central Bohemian Region.
Geomorphology
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History
The first written mention of Dobrovíz is from 1238, when the village was donated to the Zderaz Monastery in what is today
Prague-New Town. For a short time, there was a fortress, but it was probably destroyed during the
Hussite Wars
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, European monarchs loyal to the Cat ...
. From 1447 to 1621, Dobrovíz was owned by the
Kolowrat family as a part of the
Buštěhrad estate. During the
Thirty Years' War, the village was badly damaged. In 1645, Dobrovíz was returned to the Christian church, then it was acquired by the
Jesuits, who owned it until 1773.
Economy
There is the distribution centre of
Amazon in the municipality. It covers an area of and is the largest free-standing industrial building in the country.
Transport
The
D6 motorway passes through the southern part of the municipality.
The
Václav Havel Airport Prague is partially located in the municipal territory.
Sights
The historic centre of Dobrovíz is declared a
village monument reservation. The set of folk architecture houses consists of brick buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries with
stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...
façade decoration. The baroque Chapel of the Virgin Mary is located in the centre of Dobrovíz.
References
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Villages in Prague-West District