Nové Dvory (german: Neuhof) is a market town in

Kutná Hora District Kutná Hora District ( cs, okres Kutná Hora) is a district ('' okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Kutná Hora. Complete list of municipalities Adamov - Bernardov - '' Bílé Podolí'' - B ...

in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. The market town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

Administrative parts

The village of Ovčáry is an administrative part of Nové Dvory.

Geography

Nové Dvory is located about northeast of

Kutná Hora Kutná Hora (; medieval Czech: ''Hory Kutné''; german: Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. The centre of Kutná Hora, including the Sedlec Abbey and its ossuary, was designa ...

and west of

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. It lies in the

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lowland. The market town is situated on the right bank of the

Klejnárka The Klejnárka is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It flows through the Central Bohemian Region. It is long. Characteristic The Klejnárka originates in the territory of Dobrovítov in the Upper Sázava Hills at ...

River. Ovčárecký Pond is located in the southern part of the territory.

History

The first written mention of Nové Dvory is from 1370. The area was owned and settled by Cistercian monks from the nearby

Sedlec Abbey Sedlec Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, part of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1142, it was the first Cistercian foundation in Bohemia. Along with the rest of the Kutná Hora town centre, it was listed as a UNES ...

. After the abbey was destroyed by the Hussites in 1421, Nové Dvory was acquired by the royal chamber. Nové Dvory changed hands often as the kings pledged the village to various people. In the first half of the 16th century, it was owned by the restored Sedlec Abbey. In 1552, Nové Dvory was bought by Hynek Martinický, who established gardens and a pond here. After that, it often changed owners again, the most notable owners being the

Zierotin The House of Žerotín or House of Zierotin was a Czech noble family in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, one of the oldest and most illustrious noble families from Bohemia and Moravia. The family was first mentioned around the year 1200 as ''Bl ...

family. In 1701, Nové Dvory was promoted to a market town by Emperor Leopold I.

Demographics

Transport

The I/2 road from Prague to

and

passes through the market town. The I/38 road (the section from Kolín to Havlíčkův Brod) runs through the western part of the municipal territory and intersects with the I/2.

Sights

The main landmarks are the Nové Dvory Castle with the Church of Saint Martin, connected together by an arcade corridor. A fortress in Nové Dvory, first documented in 1534, was rebuilt into a Renaissance castle in 1588, then it was completely rebuilt in the early Baroque style by Count Bernard Věžník in 1679–1686. The neighbouring Chapel of Saint Martin was rebuilt into a church around 1683. Today the building of the castle serves as a primary school. The Dominican monastery was built in the early Baroque style in 1727, its Church of Saint Anne was built in 1695–1696. Today the premises of the monastery are unused. In the north is the castle park of the

Kačina Kačina is a significant Empire style castle in Svatý Mikuláš in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. In 1945, it was designated a national property. History Kačina was built from 1806 to 1824 in place of the defunct medieval ...

castle. A large part of the territory of Nové Dvory, including this castle park, belongs to the Žehušicko Landscape Monument Zone. It is a unique composed baroque cultural landscape.

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