Vrbno is a village, part of the municipality of Hořín in the district of

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in the

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of the

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, located approximately 2.5 km southwest of Hořín. The village lies in the left bank of the

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. There are 81 registered addresses and 98 permanent residents.For the number of addresses see the database of th
Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
11 September 2011, For the number of permanent residents, see the database of th
Czech Statistical Office
2001

History

Vrbno was founded probably in the 11th or 12th century in the area inhabited since the 5th millennium before

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. Mentioned for the first time in 1241 it was the possession of the Queens of

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who owned the castle of

. Then in the 14th century it was enlarged by Queen Elisabeth of Bohemia, the wife of

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, and divided between the Queen’s dominion of

and the local noble family which sold its possession to the Knights of the Cross of the Red Star. This division remained unchanged till the

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, and then Vrbno became a municipality with three cadastral areas. In 1932 there lived 496 permanent residents. Because of the decreasing number of inhabitants, it was united with adjacent municipalities of Hořín and Brozánky in 1960. During the European floods in 2002 the whole village was flooded, many buildings seriously damaged, the third part of addresses destroyed. Nevertheless, the centre of Vrbno was put on the list of the Village Monuments Areas in 2004.Národní památkový ústav ČR (Czech National Institute for Monuments' Preservation)- Monumnet, in Czech
/ref> For its untouched picturesque atmosphere Vrbno became a place where many movies were taken, e.g. about

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and ''

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''.

Monuments

* Church of the

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, built in the 12th century, enlarged in the following centuries, with cemetery and baroque chapels of

St. Barbara Saint Barbara ( grc, Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in t ...

and St. John of Nepomuk. * Building of the Roman Catholic presbytery No. 1, built in 1862. * Building if the former first school No. 60 with geographical wall paintings, built in 1878. * Building of former pub and cultural centre of the village No. 27. * Chapel of the

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, built in 1705. * Memorial of the

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, built in 1919. * Lateral canal

–

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, built in 1905.

References

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