Břevnov is the oldest settlement in Prague, it became a city due to the dispute
A small renunciation of the beloved monarch František Josef I. helped the suburban Břevnov to promotion in 1907. The emperor, moved by the cordial reception, thanked the city of Břevnov for the reception. The mayor of the village, who did not have this status at the time, did not hesitate. He had the imperial claim confirmed.
However, there is no longer the original Břevnov places, some of them are in a deplorable state.
However, Břevnov, with its respectable history, did not have to blush for a small trick. “It is one of the oldest settlements in the district of Greater Prague. It was established in the pre-monastery of the first male Czech convent, founded by Bishop St. Adalbert and Prince Boleslav II. 993, “said historian Emanuel Poche.
Monastery of St. In the 10th century, Margaret became the dominant feature of the rugged landscape, stretching from Petřín Hill to Bělohorská Plain. The convention survived the Hussite wars and rose from the rubble in 1708-1745. “It was built at the expense of Abbots Otmar Zinke and Benno Loebl according to the design of Kryštof Dientzenhofer and his son Kilián Ignác,” Poche commented. A unique building in the Prague area was also connected to the monastery complex. Probably at the beginning of the 18th century, a two-storey, nine-meter-high Dutch-type windmill was built here.
Agriculture and war
The landscape between the Strahov Gate and the Bělohorská Plain belonged to farmsteads: Šlejferce, Königsmance, Malovance, Petynce, Ladronce or Kajetánek, which Bernard Ignác of Martinice turned into a monastery in 1666. “The complex also included the Kajetánská Chapel, built as a copy of the Baroque pilgrimage chapel in Oettingen, Bavaria,” said historian Jan Holub. The small monastery survived during the Josephine reforms in 1783, the chapel largely disappeared during the demolition in 1921.
Břevnov and its history
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Bělohorská road used to be the axis of the locality and the source of its suffering. In November 1620, the victorious units of Maximilian of Bavaria and Karl Buqoy invaded Prague. In June 1648, Swedish General Königsmarck’s troops set out against Hradčany and Malá Strana. In 1757, Colonel Gideon Laudon’s Austrian dragoons attacked the Prussians in the opposite direction from the Prague walls to Ladronka.
Sandstone and marl quarries also belonged to the edge of Břevnov towards Strahov. They were also to become an inspiration for Franz Kafka, who were said to have led Josef K., the hero of the novel Proces, to these places for execution.
From the 19th century, country houses and later larger apartment buildings appeared, forming Malý and Velký Břevnov. “An example of a suburban house was buildings with a classic Neo-Renaissance facade with an attic floor,” said Kateřina Bečková, head of the Club for Old Prague. Pubs with distinctive names, such as Na Bídě, also belonged to Břevnov. “Dancing loudly in Břevnov, not hastily,” Egon Erwin Kisch described social life at the beginning of the 20th century in a report on pubs where the army is forbidden to enter.
The U Kaštanu pub is also famous, where in 1878 Josef Boleslav Pecka, Ladislav Zápotocký and other socialist rioters founded the Social Democratic Party.
Cemetery of poets and philosophers
Břevnov enjoyed independence only until the founding of Greater Prague in 1922. Together with Liboc and Střešovice, it formed the district of Prague XVIII. The open spaces continued to be diligently built on, including one of the first housing estates of constructivist houses with small apartments by architect Antonín Černý from 1936–47. A little further on in the current Patočková Street, a set of houses was built in 1936–39 according to the projects of architects Bohumil Kněžka and Josef Václavík.
For Břevnov, the construction of Pionýrů Street (Patočkova) became fatal in 1953, which cut it over. In the 1970s, Velký Břevnov disappeared except for the chapel. Today, the city faces developers. Some of its distinctive parts, like Tejnka, are still alive.
Břevnov used to be a good address, and the poet and Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert also lived on its edge towards Bílá Hora. The Břevnov Cemetery from 1739 is a selective place for the last rest. Abbot Anastáz Opasek, songwriter Karel Kryl, philosopher Jan Patočka and Le Corbusier’s pupil, architect Jan Sokol, are buried here.