Prague – anniversary in 2023: The establishment of the bishopric, the Motol hospital, floods and defenestration
Right from the beginning of the year, the whole republic remembered the first significant anniversary. 30 years have passed on January 1 since the independent Czech Republic was established. This is not the only significant round anniversary, many of them will be remembered by many Prague residents this year. It has been about 80 years since sick people came to the hospital in Motola. 280 years have passed since the very first crown of the Czech queen, and an incredible 1030 years since the founding of the oldest male monastery in Bohemia…
Jan Graubner has been the current Czech archbishop since last year. Dozens of archbishops and bishops took turns at the head of the Prague archdiocese and diocese. The formation of the Prague Diocese dates back to the very beginning of Czech history, specifically to the year 973.! At that time, Prince Boleslav II ruled from Prague Castle, who therefore entered history with the nickname Pious. Right from the beginning, the rotunda of St. Welcome, the first bishop of Prague sure then Sas name Detmar.
Church of St. Vitus.
Author: Lightning: Martin Sekanina
Boleslav II he also played a pivotal role in its founding the oldest male monastery. According to rumor, they came to meet at the source of the Brusnice stream with the then bishop St. Vojtěch. At that place it was in the year 993 decided to establish the Břevnov Monastery, which became the second oldest monastery in Prague – after the women’s monastery of St. George at Prague Castle.
To this day, the monastery is one of the great prides of the capital city with its gardens – and many interesting things are attached to it. He worked at the monastery first the oldest brewery in Bohemia, whose thousand-year history is followed by the current Břevnov monastery brewery St. Vojtěch.
Břevnov monastery.
Author: Archive
Just as you can’t forget the Petřín lookout from Petřín, you can’t overlook one of the most important church buildings in Bohemia when you look at Strahov. The Strahov Monastery was founded by Premonstratensian monks from the Rhineland in 1143 with the consecration of the then Prince Vladislav II. Today it stands from the original Romanesque basilica opulent baroque complex, whose two towers of the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary are very well recognizable even from a distance. In the Strahov Monastery, among other things, there is also one of the most famous libraries at all, which is often ranked among the best in the world the most beautiful
Strahov Monastery in Prague.
Author: Lightning: Richard Semík
It is without a doubt one of the most iconic medieval buildings in Prague Charles Bridge. Among the series of sandstone sculptures that decorate it, there is one only bronze. Belongs to St. Jan Nepomucké, who lost his life in some places under the bridge under rather dramatic and sad circumstances. Wenceslas IV. He had protracted disputes with the church, for which Nepomuck, vicar general of the Prague archbishop, paid the price. Václav, greatly strengthened by alcohol, had Nepomucký tortured, had him pulled on a violin and burned with torches. But the torturers went too far and killed the pious man.
“On the king’s order, he was tied to a goat and thrown from a stone bridge into the Vltava. The murderous act was concluded on March 20, 1393 around nine o’clock in the evening,” says historian Josef Spěváček in the book Václav IV. On the basis of his martyrdom, Nepomuck became a saint, and today we would hardly be looking for another sufferer who has so many baroque statues in Bohemia.
On the Charles Bridge stands a baroque statue of John of Nepomuk, whose death this year marks 625 years. David Winter
Date defenestration is known all over the world thanks to the Czechs. It is a purely Prague affair, which has happened three times in history. In two cases, wars even broke out because of it – first the Hussite wars in the 15th century, then the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century. Another one took place between the first and third Prague defenestrations 24 September 1483. Riots in the ranks of the Prague population broke out – of course – due to religious differences. That day, radical Kališniks marched to the Old Town Hall and the New Town Hall. At that time, burgomaster Jan z Klobouků i flew from the window a number of aldermen, who did not survive the rampage. Most of them were Catholic.
Reconstruction of the first Prague defenestration: On July 30, 2019, six aldermen-stuntmen were thrown from the window of the New Town Hall. CTK
It is not often that a woman who would rule the Czech lands with a firm hand settles in Prague Castle. It actually happened in the long history only once – that when she was empress Maria Theresa crowned Czech Queen at Prague Castle 12 May 1743. Although the empress did not have a very friendly relationship with the Czech environment, she is still considered a popular monarch in Bohemia, who in 1754 even donated a jesus child to the Prague church in the church of Our Lady of Victory and St. Antonín Paduánský’s hand-sewn dresses.
The Prague 6 district unveiled a controversial statue of Maria Theresa. The statue is located in the park of the same name in Hradčany, near the entrance to the Blanka tunnel
Author: Blesk:ROBERT KLEJCH / CNC Robert Klejch
Even though in today’s age of digitization, everyone mainly resorts to computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones, paper continues to play a central role in our lives. It was produced in ancient history, but only recently in 1833, the very first machine-made paper mill, not only in Bohemia, was established in Prague’s Bubenč, but throughout the Habsburg Monarchy. It was located in the locations of the current Mlýnská and – of course – Papírenská streets.
The area of the former paper mill in Bubenč.
Author: Jiří Marek
At the end of the 19th century, she was born literally in labor pains National Theatre. When it was finally erected and opened to the public in 1881, a devastating fire completely devastated the buildings and it was necessary to re-exhibit them. People are generously supporting the building with a collection in which over a million crowns were collected. Allegedly, every second resident of Prague contributed to the construction. Thus, the theater could once again be opened to the public once and for all November 18, 1883 for great fame at performance of Libuš by Bedřich Smetana. In its 140 years of existence, generations of great actors, legends of the stage and the silver screen have taken turns on it. And the actors in the Golden Chapel make the audience happy to this day.
National Theatre
Author: R. Klejch, J. Fulín
It’s already been 80 years since injured or sick Praguers have been going to Motolo for doctors. The establishment of the hospital there dates back to January 4, 1943, when swastika flags were still flying in the streets of Prague. At that time, the hospital had an inpatient ward, an ambulance, a surgical department and a gynecology department – of course, it included administrative buildings, garages and employees’ apartments. Today, the Faculty Hospital in Motola is the largest medical facility in Bohemiawhere they performed over 1.2 million outpatient treatments in 2021.
This is what it looks like in Prague’s Motol Hospital.
Author: Faculty Hospital in Motola
By the 1950s, audiences knew actors mainly from newspapers, theaters and cinemas. But on May 1, 1953, the lives of many Czechs literally changed by 90 degrees. On that day started the first broadcast of Czechoslovak Television in Prague. At that time, the studio was not located in the Kavče Horá, as it is today, but in Nové Město in Vladislavova Street. At the time, popular actors Jaroslav Marvan and František Filipovský had the opening words during the broadcast. A few years later, almost every household in Prague had a television set, and in May 1973 Czechoslovak Television also started broadcasting in color.
Tesla Merkur TV.
Author: Jiří Nováček.
The Barrand Bridge is often referred to as Fr the busiest bridge not only in Prague, but also in the entire republic. Every day, it is run over by vmore than 100 thousand vehicles – according to statistics from 2017, there were even 142 thousand of them in that year. Cars, vans, buses and trucks were allowed to drive on it for the first time September 20, 1983when its first southern part was built. Compared to the Prague road bridges, this one is unique in that it is not led across the Vltava perpendicularly between the banks, but diagonally.””
Barrandovský most is the busiest similar structure in Prague.
Author: Jiří Černohorský
We would not like to imagine traveling around Prague without sophisticated public transport. Buses, trams, ferries, cable cars and the subway transport countless passengers to work, from work, shopping or seeing doctors every day. The origins of public transport in Prague date back to the 19th century and since then many vehicles and sets of various types roamed the streets of Prague, which we will no longer see today. If only interest would tempt us to do it Strešovice, where it was created in the train station there May 14, 1993 Museum of public transportin whose depository there are also old horse-drawn tram cars, old trolleybuses and even the very first car of the Prague metro, which went underground in the 1970s.
The Škoda 14 TrE trolleybus that ran in Dayton, Ohio can be seen at the MHD Museum Veronika Foltová
Previously, people went shopping at the market, later to shops and supermarkets, today department stores perform this function. One of the most famous has opened to the public March 20, 2003 at Florain the immediate vicinity of the Olšan cemeteries. Atrium Flora it replaced the local park and today forms an unmistakable landmark at the intersection of Vinohradská and Jičínská, which can also be reached from the subway. Compared to other commercial palaces in Prague, the one on Flora got a nationally unique one. He is multiplex cinema that has IMAX 3D technology.
Atrium Flora celebrates 20 years of existence this year.
Author: David Malík
When she said goodbye Olga, the wife of former Ukrainian ambassador Yevhen Perebyjnis, said goodbye to Pragueshe lamented that she would miss them, among other things visits to the Kampa Museum. It will celebrate 20 years of existence this year. The opening was originally planned back in 2002, when they were Sovo’s mills were expensively renovated, but according to the original intentions of patron Medy Mládkováwho is the founder of the museum, were thrown by the whims of the weather.
The devastating August floods in 2002 flooded the building, and it was necessary to literally start anew. “It was about apocalyptic. But she didn’t give up on her dream. It’s as if higher powers wanted Meda Mládková to take credit for the museum twiceJiří Pospíšil, who is today the chairman of the Jan and Meda Mládk Foundation, which manages the museum, told Blesk.
In 2002, Prague was hit by severe floods. The Vltava also flooded Museum Kampa, which was supposed to open in the fall of that year. Instead, the floods delayed the museum’s opening by a year.
Author: Collage Blesk
Floods hit Prague even 10 years later. This time, however, not in August, but in June 2013. Not only the Vltava overflowed its banks, but also Botič or Rokytka streams, which flooded a substantial part of the lower Libna. Fortunately, the flood was not as destructive as the thousand-year flood in 2002, but still a large part of the capital was under water – for example Stromovka, Záběhlice, Hostivař, Libeň, Velká Chuchle, Radotín, Zbraslav…
Floods 2013: Flooded Rokytka in Prague between Libeň Castle and Invalidovna
Author: ČTK
Cathedral of St. Vitus, Wenceslas and Vojtěch
Author: Blesk: David Malík