Hradec Králové - My Town
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Hradec Králové - My Town
Hradec Králové is a town lying on the confluence of the Elbe und Orlice rivers. It is the political, cultural, social and administrative capital of Královehradecký area. In ancient times the elevation between the two rivers, together with many tributaries and marshes, formed a natural barrier, protecting the inhabitants of this region.The first sings of the settling of the farmers is here in the later Stone Age. Many relics from later periods are to be seen in the regional museum. In the 10th century the settlement, called Hradec, belonged to the Slavníkov family. When they were annihilated, it became the property of the Czech princes of the Přemysl family. In 1225 Hradec became a free royal town. In this age was Hradec the wealthiest and largest Czech town after Prague. At the beginning of the 14th century it became dower town of the Czech queens, Elizabeth Rejčka and Elizabeth Pomořanská and later word “Králové” was added to its name. In the same century arose in the town a new landmark – the Gothic brick-built Cathedral of the Holy Ghost. In 1337 John of Luxemburg conferred on Hradec all privileges of a royal town. A famous chapter in history of Hradec Králové was the Hussite period. In 1420 it became a Hussite town for a long period and year later it welcomed the great military commander Jan Žižka of Trocnov. He was buried in Cathedral in 1424. In the next period arose a new monument in Hradec – it was the Renaissance White Tower with the second largest bell in Bohemia – Augustin. War in 18th century made it necessary to turn the town to the fortress. It halted the development of Hradec for 100 years. In the first third of the 19th century became Hradec and surroundings the most important centre of Czech writing. In break of century was fortress pull down and was worked a building plan, which was entrusted to famous architects. In this are sprang up new flats and public buildings around the historical core and on the banks of the rivers. The famous architects Jan Kotěra and Josef Gočár built many buildings according to the new urban conception. Jan Kotěra built the Municipal museum in 1909-12. In the next years was built new suburbs and was added neighboring villages to Hradec. In Hradec were many important factories in communist age. There are ČKD, Tesla, Gumokov, ZVU, Mileta, Montas, PETROF and others. But after the take-over were most of them closed or limited. There is in Hradec only one big factories – PETROF, where are make pianos.
In the last years arose here many super- and hypermarkets. In Hradec there are some hotels. The Amber hotel Černigov and Hotel Alessandria are the oldest hotels in town. The new hotels are Hotel by Queen Elizabeth or Villa Christina. In the town there are many private accommodations. The town has big possibility to education. There are many primary schools. In town there are four grammar schools. One of them is private. In town there are two industrial schools for architects and for machine engineer. And here there is secondary school for a nurse, too. In Hradec there is University. Our University has two faculties – Pedagogical Faculty and Faculty of informatics and management. There are two Faculties from Charles University – Medical Faculty and Pharmacy Faculty. Life in Hradec Králové has many cultural sides. In Hradec have we three theatres. The Václav Kliment Klicpera Theater is the best theater in Czech Republic in years 1998-1999. The well-known producer of this theater is controversy producer Moravek. Klicpera´s Theater has four scenes. The next theater in Hradec is Dragon Theater. It is world well-known puppet theater. And the last theater is Jesličky. This is theater for beginning actress. In Hradec there is the Municipal symphony orchestra and a several art galleries. In town we have the States scientific Library. In Nový Hradec Králové there is observatory and planetarium. In town there many sports grounds with modern equipment. On the bank of Orlice there are winter stadium with two ice rinks and hotel with accommodation. Ice hockey club from Hradec plays the second highest league in Czech Republic. In Hradec there is many football ground. The biggest is on the bank of Orlice. Here plays football club from Hradec the highest league. The stadium is very old and don’t correspond to the UEFA’s norms. In Malšovice there is a big tennis stadium. A new tennis ground arose in the last year on the bank of Elbe next to the Hospital. We have swimming pool with 50m run and the Aqua centre.