Planá () is a municipality and village in
České Budějovice District in the
South Bohemian Region
The South Bohemian Region () is an administrative unit (''Regions of the Czech Republic, kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia. The western ...
of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Etymology
The word meant 'barren', but it also denoted a wide, open landscape.
Geography
Planá is located about southwest of
České Budějovice
České Budějovice (; ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 97,000 inhabitants. The city is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše.
České Budějovice is the largest ...
. It lies in the
České Budějovice Basin. 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 forms the southern and eastern municipal borders.
History
The first written mention of Planá is from 1259.
[ Between 1961 and 1990, it was an administrative part of Homole. Since 24 November 1990, it has been a separate municipality.
]
Demographics
Transport
The I/3 road (part of the European route E55), specifically the section from České Budějovice to the Czech-Austrian border in Dolnà Dvořiště, runs through the municipality.
A part of České Budějovice Airport is located in the municipal territory.
Sights
Planá is poor in monuments. The only protected cultural monument is a homestead from 1881.
Notable people
* Anton Ortmann (1801–1861), Austrian pharmacist and botanist
* Ferdinand Kowarz (1838–1914), Austrian entomologist
References
External links
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Villages in České Budějovice District