Zbraslav (; german: Königsaal; Latin ''Aula Regia'') is a municipal district and cadastral area of Prague. The southernmost district of Prague, it lies on the Vltava River in the national administrative district of Prague 16. The former independent municipality of Zbraslav is now one of two cadastral areas in the Prague-Zbraslav Municipal District. The other is

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History

Zbraslav was founded in 1118. In the 13th century, the king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia founded here a very influential

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abbey which was called ''Aula regia'' in Latin. The medieval monastery became the burial place of Bohemian kings. The

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(a masterpiece of Bohemian Gothic fine art) was painted for this monastery in the 1340s. In 1935, V. Bulgakov founded an important Russian museum here with collections dedicated to Russian emigrants, but the museum was closed and confiscated by the

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s before 1948. In 1924, Žabovřesky and

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were joined to Zbraslav. In 1967, Zbraslav was promoted to a town. Zbraslav was merged into the city of Prague in 1974. It used to house the

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and Japanese collections of the National Gallery in Prague in the building of former monastery.

Notable people

Petr Žitavský Peter of Zittau ( cz, Petr Žitavský; –1339) was a Bohemian churchman and historian. Born in Zittau, he entered the Cistercian monastery of Aula Regia (Zbraslav), founded by Wenceslaus II in 1292, and became the monastery's official historian. ...

(1270–1339), abbot of the Zbraslav Monastery, politician and author of the ''Zbraslav Chronicle'' * Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), novelist; lived here from 1921 * Jaromír Vejvoda (1902–1988), songwriter; his home is now a restaurant called Škoda Lásky with paraphernalia relating to him

References

External links

Unofficial Zbraslav page
(in Czech)
Official page of the Prague-Zbraslav Municipal DistrictZbraslav and history
(in Czech) {{Authority control Districts of Prague