Ondřejov (Prague-East District)
Ondřejov | |
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![]() Church of Saints Simon and Jude | |
Coordinates: 49°54′17″N 14°47′3″E / 49.90472°N 14.78417°ECoordinates: 49°54′17″N 14°47′3″E / 49.90472°N 14.78417°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Region | Central Bohemian |
District | Prague-East |
First mentioned | 1352 |
Area | |
• Total | 18.15 km2 (7.01 sq mi) |
Elevation | 467 m (1,532 ft) |
Population (2022-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 1,804 |
• Density | 99/km2 (260/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 251 65, 251 66 |
Website | www |
Ondřejov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈondr̝ɛjof]) is a municipality and village in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,800 inhabitants. Thehistoric centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
Administrative parts
The villages of Třemblat and Turkovice are administrative parts of Ondřejov.
History
The first written mention of Ondřejov is from 1352. The parish church is dated from around the first quarter of the 14th century. In the early modern period it was discovered that there were large amounts of silver ore in the municipality, prompting one of the village's main exports to be crafts such as pottery.[2]
Demographics
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Source: Historical lexicon of municipalities of the Czech Republic[3][4] |
Sights
The Church of Saints Simon and Jude was originally a Romanesque building, baroque modified in 1668. The adjacent Baroque building of the rectory is from 1778–1780[5]
In 1898–1906 the industrialist Josef Jan Frič built the astronomical observatory in the village, which he gave to the Charles University in 1928. Today the Ondřejov Observatory is operated by the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Its part is also the Vojtěch Šafařík Astronomical Museum.[6]
References
- ^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2022". Czech Statistical Office. 29 April 2022.
- ^ Premsyl, Otto (1976). Otto's encyclopedia.
- ^ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Okres Praha-východ" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 21 December 2015. pp. 9–10.
- ^ "Population Census 2021: Population by sex". Public Database. Czech Statistical Office. 27 March 2021.
- ^ "Kostel sv. Šimona a Judy" (in Czech). Obec Ondřejov. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Historie" (in Czech). Obec Ondřejov. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
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