Jíloviště is a municipality and village in

Prague-West District Prague-West District () is a district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Prague. The most populated town of the district is Jesenice. Administrative division Prague-West District is formed by only one administ ...

in the

Central Bohemian Region The Central Bohemian Region ( ; ) is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the central part of its historical region of Bohemia. Its administrative centre is in the Czech capital Prague, which lies in the centre of the regio ...

of the

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. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Etymology

The name is derived from the Czech word (i.e. 'clay') and translates as '

clay pit A clay pit is a quarry or Mining, mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits. A brickyard or brickwor ...

Geography

Jíloviště is located about southwest of

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. It lies mostly in the Brdy Highlands, only the southern and western part of the municipal territory extends into the

Benešov Uplands The Benešov Uplands or Benešov Hills () are uplands and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Central Bohemian Region. It belongs to the largest mesoregions in the country. It is named after Benešov ...

. The highest point is the Kámen hill at above sea level. The Vrané Reservoir, built on the

Vltava The Vltava ( , ; ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It runs southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague. It is com ...

River, is located east of the municipality just outside the municipal territory. The Vltava briefly crosses the eastern part of the municipal territory. The

Berounka The Berounka () is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Vltava River. It flows through the Plzeň Region, Plzeň and Central Bohemian Region, Central Bohemian regions to Prague. It is formed by the confluence of the Mže and Radbu ...

River briefly flows along the western municipal border, outside the territoy of Jíloviště.

History

The first written mention of Jíloviště is in a deed of

Zbraslav Monastery The Cistercian Abbey of Zbraslav (, , ) located in Zbraslav near Prague (today part of Prague) was one of the most significant monastery, monasteries of the Cistercians, Cistercian Order in the Kingdom of Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic). Fou ...

from 1347. The village was founded after 1342. The monastery owned Jíloviště until 1420, when the

Hussites upright=1.2, Battle between Hussites (left) and Crusades#Campaigns against heretics and schismatics, Catholic crusaders in the 15th century upright=1.2, The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began during the Prag ...

burned down the monastery. In 1420, the village was acquired by a lower noblemen Zikmund Bolechovec of Pušperk, but between 1471 and 1526, it became a property of the Zbraslav Monastery again. In the mid-16th century, Jíloviště was described as abandoned, but it was repopulated in 1587 at the latest. Around 1639, during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine ...

, the village was burned down. The Zbraslav Monastery was abolished in 1785 and the estate was managed by the religious fund since then. In 1825, the Zbraslav estate was bought by Count Bedřich Jindřich Öettinger-Wallerstein. In 1848, Jíloviště became an independent municipality.

Demographics

Transport

The D4 motorway from Prague to

Písek Písek (; ) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 31,000 inhabitants. The town is known for the oldest bridge in the country. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument z ...

runs through the municipal territory.

Sights

Among the protected cultural monuments in the municipality are two gords called Humenská and Kazín. Only terrain remains have survived. The localities are archaeological sites. A landmark in the centre of Jíloviště is the Chapel of Saint Florian. It was originally a firehouse, transformed into the chapel in 2014.

References

External links

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