Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
. It has about 89,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the
Pardubice Region
Pardubice Region ( cs, Pardubický kraj; , ; pl, Kraj pardubicki) is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located mainly in the eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in northwestern Moravia. It ...
and lies on the
Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...
River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an
urban monument reservation.
Pardubice is known as the centre of industry, which represents by an oil refinery or an electronic equipment plant. The city is well known for its sport events, which include the
Great Pardubice Steeplechase in horse racing, the
Golden Helmet of Pardubice
The Golden Helmet of Pardubice (Czech: Zlatá přilba) is a speedway competition hosted annually in Pardubice, the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known a ...
in motorcycle racing, and the Czech Open international chess and games festival.
Administrative division
Pardubice is divided into eight boroughs, which are further divided into 27 administrative parts (in brackets):
*Pardubice I (Bílé Předměstí (partly), Pardubice-Staré Město, Zámek, Zelené Předměstí (partly));
*Pardubice II (Cihelna, Polabiny, Rosice (partly));
*Pardubice III (Bílé Předměstí (partly), Studánka (partly));
*Pardubice IV (Bílé Předměstí (partly), Černá za Bory, Drozdice, Mnětice, Nemošice, Pardubičky, Staročernsko, Studánka (partly), Žižín);
*Pardubice V (Dražkovice, Nové Jesenčany, Zelené Předměstí (partly));
*Pardubice VI (Lány na Důlku, Opočínek, Popkovice, Staré Čívice, Svítkov, Zelené Předměstí (partly));
*Pardubice VII (Doubravice, Ohrazenice, Rosice (partly), Semtín, Trnová);
*Pardubice VIII (Hostovice).
Etymology
The name ''Pardubice'' is derived from the personal Polish name Porydęb. It was the name of the leader of the monks who came here from Poland. For the first time the name was recorded in the form of ''Pordobice''.
Geography
Pardubice lies about east of
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
. The city lies at the confluence of the
Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...
and the
Chrudimka
Chrudimka is a river in the Pardubice Region in the Czech Republic. It is a left tributary of Labe, beginning near Hlinsko and flowing mostly northward to the city of Pardubice
Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It ...
rivers. There are several
fish pond
A fish pond or fishpond is a controlled pond, small artificial lake or retention basin that is stocked with fish and is used in aquaculture for fish farming, for recreational fishing, or for ornamental purposes.
Fish ponds are a classical g ...
s, artificial lakes and
oxbow lake
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water. In South Texas, oxbows left by the Rio Grande are called '' resacas''. In Australia, oxbow lakes are call ...
s of the Elbe in the municipal territory.
Pardubice is located in the
East Elbe Table
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sunrise, Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from ...
lowland, in the eastern part of the
Polabí
Polabí (german: Elbeland) is the traditional and informal name for a lowlands region located mainly in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Etymology
The name comes from Czech ''po Labi'', meaning "along the Elbe". The same linguist ...
lowlands. The highest point is the hill Stropinský vrch with an elevation of , located on the southeastern municipal border.
History
The first written mention of Pardubice is from 1295, when
Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII ( la, Bonifatius PP. VIII; born Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 – 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. The Caetani, Caetani family was of b ...
took over the protection of the local Church of Saint Bartholomew with the order of
Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs
The Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs ( la, Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Mendicantium S. Mariae de Metro de Poenitentia Sanctorum Martyrum) was a small Roman Catholic religious order. It was a penitent order which followed the ...
. In the first half of the 14th century, the settlement was acquired by a noble family, later known as Lords of Pardubice. In 1340, when Pardubice was inherited by
Arnošt of Pardubice
Arnošt of Pardubice ( cs, Arnošt z Pardubic, german: Ernst von Pardubitz) (25 March 1297 probably in Vestec (Náchod District), Hostinka – 30 June 1364 in Roudnice nad Labem) was the first List of bishops and archbishops of Prague, Archbisho ...
, it was first referred to as a city.
In 1491, Pardubice was bought by Vilém II of Pernštejn
Vilém II of Pernštejn (german: Wilhelm II. von Pernstein or ''Wilhelm II. von Bernstein'', cs, Vilém II. z Pernštejna or ''Vilém z Pernštejna a na Helfštejně''; 1438 – 8 April 1521) was a Czech nobleman. He held the office of High Tre ...
, who continued to expand the town and made significant impact on its prosperity. He chose Pardubice as the centre of his estate and began to build a city that corresponded to his status. The Pernštejn family
The Pernštejn (german: Pernstein) was one of the seven Moravian dynasty families and the most important (uradel) family originating from Moravian nobility. The first mentioned member of House of Pernštejn lived in the 13th century. They took th ...
had the entire historic centre with the Renaissance square built. They also had rebuilt the medieval castle into a comfortable fortified residence. In 1560, the Pernštejns were forced to sell the estate to Emperor Ferdinand I because of debts.
During the Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...
, the city was besieged by the army of General Lennart Torstensson
Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 16037 April 1651), was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer.
Early career
He was born at Forstena manor in Västergötland. His parents were Märta Nilsdotter Posse a ...
, but was not conquered.[
An important milestone in the history of the city was the year 1845, when the railway from ]Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
to Olomouc
Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019).
Located on th ...
was finished. Pardubice became an important railway junction, which led to the development of the food, engineering and chemical industries, and subsequently the development of social and cultural life. In 1874, the Great Pardubice Steeplechase horse race took place for the first time. In 1910, Jan Kašpar
Jan Kašpar (20 May 1883 – 2 March 1927) was a Czech aviator, aircraft constructor, designer and engineer. He is considered an aviation pioneer in the Czech lands.
Biography
Kašpar was born at Pardubice. From his early years, he was an enthus ...
made here the first successful flight in Czech lands and a year later he made history by flying the first long-haul flight from Pardubice to Prague.[
Until 1918, the town was part of the ]Austrian monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
(Austria side after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (german: Ausgleich, hu, Kiegyezés) established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary ...
), head of the Pardubitz district, one of the 94 ''Bezirkshauptmannschaften'' in Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...
.
In the interwar period, Pardubice continued to develop, the heyday ended with the advent of World War II. During the war the city was damaged by air strikes of the Allies, and the Fanto Werke refinery was repeatedly bombed during the Oil campaign of World War II.[
]
Demographics
Economy
Pardubice is known as an industrial city. The dominant industries are chemical industry, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Tesla electronics manufacturer operated here in 1921–1989. In 2000, Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Hon Hai Technology Group in China and Taiwan and Foxconn internationally, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer established in 1974 with headquarters in Tucheng, New T ...
established a production plant in its former premises. This electronics manufacturer is the largest employer in Pardubice.
Pardubice has a long tradition in the chemical industry. It is represented by the Paramo refinery, which was founded by David Fanto in 1889. Today it is owned by Orlen Unipetrol
Orlen Unipetrol is a Czech joint stock company owned by a Polish oil company PKN Orlen. The company is engaged in crude oil processing and the production, distribution and sales of fuels and petrochemical products – mainly plastics and fertilis ...
. In Pardubice-Semtín there are the companies Explosia (a manufacturer of explosives founded in 1920, which is associated with the invention of Semtex
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive containing RDX and Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN. It is used in commercial blasting, demolition, and in certain military applications.
Semtex was developed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia, or ...
plastic explosive) and its subsidiary Synthesia (manufacturer of cellulose, pigments and dyes, and organic compounds, established in 1929).
For centuries, Pardubice is known for the production of gingerbread
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as ...
. The gingerbread guild was established in the 16th century. The first factory was founded in 1913. Since 2008, Pardubice gingerbread is a protected geographical indication by the European Union.
Transport
Pardubice main railway station is an important railway junction. Pardubice has direct railway connection with many cities, including Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
, Olomouc
Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019).
Located on th ...
, Ostrava
Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...
, and Žilina
Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...
and Košice
Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...
in Slovakia.
Pardubice is served by Pardubice Airport
Pardubice Airport ( cs, Letiště Pardubice) is both military and civilian international airport in the city of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Apart from the military purpose, it is used for scheduled services, charter flights to Southern Europe d ...
, which is used as both military and civilian international airport.
Education
Pardubice is home to University of Pardubice
University of Pardubice ( or UPA) is a university in Pardubice, the Czech Republic. In 2021 it had nearly 8,000 students. It is the only university in Pardubice Region.
History
In the aftermath of the World War II, chemical factories in the city ...
. It was founded in 1950 as Chemical College and is mainly focused on fields historically associated with the city, such as the chemical industry and transportation.
Sport
The city was first represented in the top national football competition by SK Pardubice
SK Pardubice was a Czech football club from the city of Pardubice, which played in the Czechoslovak First League
The Czechoslovak First League ( cs, 1. fotbalová liga, sk, 1. futbalová liga) was the premier football league in the Czechosl ...
in the 1930s and 1940s. Later VCHZ Pardubice
FK Pardubice 1899 was a Czech football club from the city of Pardubice, which played one season in the Czechoslovak First League, under the name of VCHZ Pardubice. It was founded as Explosia Semtín in 1925.
In 1961n then so called "VCHZ Pardubi ...
played in the top national league in the 1968–69 season. Nowadays the city is represented by FK Pardubice
FK Pardubice is a Czech football club located in the city of Pardubice. It currently plays in the Czech First League.
The club is the successor of TJ Tesla Pardubice, which merged with FC Loko Pardubice in 2008.
History
The club advanced to the ...
, which plays in the Czech First League
The Czech First League, known as the Fortuna liga for sponsorship reasons, is a Czech professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Czech football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Seasons typically r ...
. However, as of 2021/22, the team's stadium Pod Vinicí
Pod Vinicí is a football stadium in Pardubice, Czech Republic. It is the former home stadium of FK Pardubice. The total capacity is 2,500, including 600 seated.
In 2012 FK Pardubice invested over one million CZK in the redevelopment of the seatin ...
does not meet the criteria for holding first league matches. Women's team plays in the Czech Women's First League.
The ice hockey club HC Dynamo Pardubice
HC Dynamo Pardubice is a professional ice hockey club that plays in the Czech Extraliga. Its home venue is Enteria arena located in Pardubice. The club was originally named LTC Pardubice, acquiring its current name at the start of the 2015 ...
plays in the Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga ( cs, Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created by the 1993 split of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League following the breakup of Czechoslovakia. The leag ...
. The team plays its home games at Enteria arena.
The basketball team is BK JIP Pardubice
Basketbalový klub Pardubice, mostly known for sponsorship reasons as KVIS Pardubice is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Pardubice. They play in the Czech National Basketball League (NBL), the highest competition in the C ...
, playing in the National Basketball League.
Pardubice is also represented in the Czech rink bandy
Rink bandy is a variant of the larger sport of bandy. Unlike bandy which is played on a large bandy field, rink bandy is played on significantly smaller ice hockey sized ice rinks.
While a bandy field is about the same size as a football pitch, ...
league.
Pardubice hosts two world-famous sporting events each year. The Great Pardubice Steeplechase was first held in 1874 and is one of the most famous horse races in Europe.
The second event is the Golden Helmet of Pardubice
The Golden Helmet of Pardubice (Czech: Zlatá přilba) is a speedway competition hosted annually in Pardubice, the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known a ...
, a motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
competition held at the Svítkov Stadium. The Golden Helmet has been run since 1929 is one of the most prestigious individual titles in world speedway outside of the Speedway World Championship
The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The first official championsh ...
or a riders national championship.
The Czech Open international chess and games festival has been held in Pardubice since 1990. The city was also known for the Czech Open in golf, but it was last held in 2011.
Sights
The landmark and symbol of Pardubice is the Green Gate as a remnant of the city's fortifications. It is a Renaissance gate with a façade decorated by a relief designed by Mikoláš Aleš
Mikoláš Aleš (18 November 1852 – 10 July 1913) was a Czech painter. Aleš is estimated to have had over 5,000 published pictures; he painted for everything from magazines to playing cards to textbooks. His paintings were not publicized to ...
, which depicts the Lords of Pardubice. Behind the gate is a high tower that serves as an lookout tower. In its interior there is also an exposition with the history and legends of the city.
Pardubice Castle was built at the end of the 13th century and rebuilt in the Renaissance style at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Massive fortifications are preserved around the castle. Today the castle houses the Museum of East Bohemia in Pardubice and Gallery of East Bohemia in Pardubice.
The original Church of Saint Bartholomew was built in 1295 and 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 ...
. The today's Church of Saint Bartholomew was built together with a monastery in 1507–1514. It was used as a burial place of the Pernštejn family
The Pernštejn (german: Pernstein) was one of the seven Moravian dynasty families and the most important (uradel) family originating from Moravian nobility. The first mentioned member of House of Pernštejn lived in the 13th century. They took th ...
. In the interior there is a valuable main altar with the painting "The Passion of St. Bartholomew" from 1692 by Michael Willmann
Michael Leopold Lukas Willmann (27 September 1630 – 26 August 1706) was a German painter. The Baroque artist became known as the "Silesian Rembrandt", "Silesian Apelles" or "Silesian Raphael" and has been called the greatest Silesian paint ...
and a painting decoration by Mikoláš Aleš.
The Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary was founded by Arnošt of Pardubice
Arnošt of Pardubice ( cs, Arnošt z Pardubic, german: Ernst von Pardubitz) (25 March 1297 probably in Vestec (Náchod District), Hostinka – 30 June 1364 in Roudnice nad Labem) was the first List of bishops and archbishops of Prague, Archbisho ...
before 1359. Its present late Gothic and Renaissance appearance dates from the first half of the 16th century. Until 1786, the church belonged to a Minorite monastery, from which time there are extensive underground tombs under the church.
House At Jonáš is one of the most valuable burgher houses in Pardubice. It was built after the fire that hit the city in 1507. It is known fort its façade, which is decorated with a stucco relief from 1797 with a biblical scene of a whale swallowing the prophet Jonah
Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th cent ...
. The premises of the house are used by the Gallery of East Bohemia in Pardubice.
Zámeček Memorial is a place of reverence that commemorates execution of 194 people in 1942. The place is a national cultural monument and in its centre is a granite monument from 1949.
Notable people
*Gustav Gärtner
Gustav Gärtner (September 28, 1855 – November 4, 1937) was an Austrian pathologist born in Pardubice, Bohemia.
In 1879 he earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna, afterwards working in Vienna as an assistant to Salomon Strick ...
(1855–1937), pathologist
* Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862–1934), politician, writer, and feminist
*František Lexa
František Lexa (1876-1960) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist. Lexa began his career as a secondary school teacher. Having learnt the Egyptian language by himself, he became the first person to translate and publish Egyptian texts into Czech in 1 ...
(1876–1960), Egyptologist
*Vilém Mathesius
Vilém Mathesius (, 3 August 1882 – 12 April 1945) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics.
Mathesius was the edit ...
(1882–1945), linguist and writer
*Jan Kašpar
Jan Kašpar (20 May 1883 – 2 March 1927) was a Czech aviator, aircraft constructor, designer and engineer. He is considered an aviation pioneer in the Czech lands.
Biography
Kašpar was born at Pardubice. From his early years, he was an enthus ...
(1883–1927), aviator and aircraft constructor
*Emil Artur Longen
Emil Artur Longen, born Emil Václav František Pitterman (29 July 1885, Pardubice – 24 April 1936, Benešov) was a Czech playwright, director, actor, screenwriter and painter. He was initially drawn to Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, but ...
(1885–1936), playwright, actor and screenwriter
*Oskar Brázda
Oskar Brázda (30 September 1887 in Rosice – 19 December 1977 in Líčkov) was a Czech painter and artist.
Biography
Brázda attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then, through the imperial scholarship, he studied in Italy. In 19 ...
(1887–1977), painter
*Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová
Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová (1900-1995) was a Czechoslovak numismatist, archaeologist and historian. She is considered to be a founder of modern Czech numismatics.
Early life
Nohejlová-Prátová was born on 3 June 1900 in Opatovice nad Labem, ...
(1900–1995), numismatist; died here
* Věra Vovsová (1912–1998), painter, lived here
*Jan Tauc
Jan Tauc (; 15 April 1922 – 28 December 2010) was a Czech-American physicist who introduced the concepts of Tauc gap and Tauc plot to the optical characterization of solids. Born in Bohemia, he emigrated to the United States in 1969, where he re ...
(1922–2010), Czech-American physicist
* Petr Haničinec (1930–2007), actor
*Jiří Gruša
Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech people, Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.[Vladimír Nadrchal
Vladimír Nadrchal (born March 4, 1938 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is an ice hockey player who played for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics, and a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics
...]
(born 1938), ice hockey player
*Alois Švehlík
Alois Švehlík (born 30 July 1939) is a Czech actor and theatre pedagogue.
Life and career
Švehlík was born in Pardubice, then part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, in 1939. Together with his older brother Jaroslav, he became invo ...
(born 1939), actor
*Petr Kabeš
Petr Kabeš (21 June 1941 in Pardubice – 9 July 2005 in Prague) was a Czech poet.
Biography
Kabeš was born in Pardubice and studied at the Prague University of Economics and Business.
He published his first collection ''Čáry na dlani'' in ...
(1941–2005), poet
*Stanislav Prýl
Stanislav Prýl (November 23, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an ice hockey player who played for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He was born in Pardubice
Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) ...
(1942–2015), ice hockey player
*Jiří Crha
Jiří Crha (born April 13, 1950) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender. He who played 69 games in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1980 and 1981. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1993, was spent ...
(born 1950), ice hockey player
*Otakar Janecký
Otakar Janecký (born 26 December 1960 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a retired Czech ice hockey forward.
Career
In his homeland Janecký represented HC Pardubice, his birthcity team for his entire Czechoslovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga ...
(born 1960), ice hockey player and coach
*Hynek Kmoníček
Hynek Kmoníček (born 22 October 1962) is a Czech diplomat and the current Czech Republic Ambassador to the United States. Previously, Kmoníček served as foreign policy advisor of the President Miloš Zeman, and held ambassadorial posts unde ...
(born 1962), diplomat
*Ivo Křen
Ivo Křen (6 February 1964 – 9 May 2020) was a Czech graphic artist, art glass theoretician and curator.
Life
After graduating from grammar school in Pardubice (1979–82) Ivo Křen studied art education and Czech language at the Faculty of Pe ...
(1964–2020), graphic artist and glass art theoretician
* Roman Prymula (born 1964), physician, epidemiologist and politician
*Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek (, ; born January 29, 1965) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender who mostly played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Widely regarded as one of the best goaltenders of all time, Hašek also played for t ...
(born 1965), ice hockey player
*Edita Adlerová
Edita Adlerová (born 27 August 1971) is a Czech classical mezzo-soprano who has been active in operas, concerts, and recitals since the early 1990s. She is the recipient of the Czech Music Fund Award.
Biography
Born in Pardubice, Adlerová stu ...
(born 1971), mezzo-soprano
*Tereza Maxová
Tereza Maxová (born 31 August 1971, in Pardubice), is a Czech model.
Biography
In 1975 her family moved to Ústí nad Labem, where she finished her basic school focussed on sport and athletics in 1985. After passing her entrance exams she starte ...
(born 1971), model
*Radek Baborák
Radek Baborák (born 11 March 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech conductor and French horn player.
Career
Radek Baborák was born into a musical family. He commenced his horn studies at the age of eight under the tutelage of Karel Kren ...
(born 1976), French horn player and conductor
* Nora Fridrichová (born 1977), television presenter
*Lukáš Wagenknecht
Lukáš Wagenknecht (born 24 September 1978) is a Czech economist, auditor and politician serving as a Senate of the Czech Republic, Senator of the Czech Republic representing Senate district 23 – Prague 8, Prague 8 district since October 2018. ...
(born 1978), economist and politician
*Jan Bulis
Jan Bulis () (born March 18, 1978) is a former Czech professional hockey winger who last played as the Captain of Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He spent nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing with ...
(born 1978), ice hockey player
*Jiří Welsch
Jiří Welsch () (born 27 January 1980) is a Czech former professional basketball player for BK Pardubice of the Czech Republic National Basketball League. He has also represented the senior Czech Republic national basketball team. Welsch has ...
(born 1980), basketball player
* Michal Meduna (born 1981), footballer
*Aleš Hemský
Aleš Hemský (, born 13 August 1983) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He most recently played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was originally a member of the Edmonton Oilers, who selected him i ...
(born 1983), ice hockey player
*Filip Bandžak
Filip Bandžak (; born 10 September 1983) is a Czech operatic baritone.
Biography and career
Bandžak was born in Pardubice, Czech Republic. His musical career began very early when he moved to Prague. At the age of four he started playing the ...
(born 1983), opera singer, baritone
*Iva Kramperová
Iva Kramperová (born 1984) is a Czech people, Czech violinist.
Iva Kramperová studied at the Music Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Academy of Performing Arts
in Prague (Prof. Ivan Straus, Leos Cepicky), she has participated in ...
(born 1984), classical violinist
* Tomáš Nosek (born 1992), ice hockey player
*Kovy
Karel Kovář (born 11 September 1996), commonly known as Kovy (), is a Czech YouTube personality, vlogger and former let's player. He started his YouTube career in 2012 at the age of 16, at his first channel calleGameballcz focused mainly on le ...
(born 1996), youtuber
*Filip Zadina
Filip Zadina (; born 27 November 1999) is a Czech professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Zadina was drafted sixth overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career
...
(born 1999), ice hockey player
Twin towns – sister cities
Pardubice is twinned with:
* Bełchatów
Bełchatów () is a city in central Poland with a population of 55,583 as of December 2021. It is located in Łódź Voivodeship, from Warsaw.
The Elektrownia Bełchatów, located in Bełchatów, is the largest coal fueled power plant in Euro ...
, Poland
* Çanakkale
Çanakkale (pronounced ), ancient ''Dardanellia'' (), is a city and seaport in Turkey in Çanakkale province on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. The population of the city is 195,439 (2021 estimate).
Çanakkale is ...
, Turkey
* Doetinchem
Doetinchem (; Low Saxon: ) is a city and municipality in the east of the Netherlands. It is situated along the Oude IJssel (Old IJssel) river in a part of the province of Gelderland called the Achterhoek. The municipality had a population of in ...
, Netherlands
* Merano
Merano (, , ) or Meran () is a city and ''comune'' in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Generally best known for its spa resorts, it is located within a basin, surrounded by mountains standing up to above sea level, at the entrance to the Passeier V ...
, Italy
* Pernik
Pernik ( bg, Перник ) is a town in western Bulgaria (about south-west of Sofia) with a population of 70,285 . Pernik is the most populated town in western Bulgaria after Sofia. It is the main town of Pernik Province and lies on both banks ...
, Bulgaria
* Rosignano Marittimo
Rosignano Marittimo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Livorno.
Geography
Rosignano Marittimo borders the following municipalities: ...
, Italy
* Selb
Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, on the border with the Czech Republic, 20 km northwest of Cheb and 23 km southeast of Hof.
Selb is well known fo ...
, Germany
* Skellefteå
Skellefteå (, locally ) is a Cities in Sweden, city in Västerbotten County, Sweden. It is the seat of Skellefteå Municipality, which had 73,246 inhabitants in 2021.
The city is historically industrial, with mining being a large part of that i ...
, Sweden
* Vysoké Tatry
Vysoké Tatry (; hu, Magastátra, ; german: Höhe Tatra, ; pl, Wysokie Tatry, ; cs, Vysoké Tatry, ), formally Mesto Vysoké Tatry () is a town at the feet of the Slovak part of High Tatras in Slovakia including all the major resorts in that ...
, Slovakia
Cooperation agreements
Pardubice also cooperates with:[
* ]East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the histo ...
, Scotland, United Kingdom
* Golegã
Golegã () is a town and municipality in Santarém District, Portugal. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 5,913,including the parish Pombalinho, that changed from the municipality of Santarém to Golegã in 2013 in an area of 84.32  ...
, Portugal
* Jerez de la Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera (), or simply Jerez (), is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains. , the ...
, Spain
* Sežana
Sežana (; it, Sesana) is a town in the Slovenian Littoral region of Slovenia, near the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Sežana. Sežana is located on the Karst Plateau, from Trieste, Italy, and from Ljubljana, the cap ...
, Slovenia
* Waregem
Waregem (; vls, Woaregem), sometimes known as Waereghem, is a municipality and city located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the river Leie, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the arrondiss ...
, Belgium
* Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
, Poland
References
External links
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Tourist Information Portal
Two legends of Pardubice
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Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Oil campaign of World War II
Populated places in Pardubice District
Populated riverside places in the Czech Republic
Populated places on the Elbe