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Šťáhlavy
The village Šťáhlavy lies 14 km south of the city Pilsen in the valley of the river Úslava. To the west there is the hill Radyně with a fortress of the same name rising over the valley and there is also a growth of wood of the southwest foothills of the mountains Brdy spreading out as far as to the region of Rokycany, to which the village had belonged until 1949. Referring to historical documents the territory of the village was settled as early as in the 5th millenium B.C.
First written report on the village comes from the year 1239, when king Wenceslas I., son of Przemyslid Otakar I., gave the village to St. Laurentius church by the castle Pilsen in change for the settlement Benešovice u Stříbra. This is how the village gained its steady historical status.
It was for a short period, roughly half a century, that Šťáhlavy belonged to new Pilsen, founded in 1295 under the reign of Wenceslas II. It was held by noblemen until the half of the 15th century. Out of them first was in 1318 a certain Beneda, followed by Mareš, Ješek, Hynek and Vyšemír. Those times Šťáhlavy annexed the villages Lhůta, Kamýk and Neslívy. From the half of the 15th century the village belonged to the family of Doupovec of Doupov, who united each part of Šťáhlavy and had a fortress built on the site of today´s garden belonging to the restaurant "U Radyně".
In 1539 the Doupovec family sold Šťáhlavy, together with the fortress, an estate, a deserted castle Lopata and the villages Šťáhlavice, Nezbavětice, Sedlec, Lhůta, Neslívy, Nezvěstice, Žákava and Nevid, to the high-born lord Jiřík Kokořovec of Kokořov for 6 000 five dozens Meissen groschens. Jiřík Kokořovec further increased his property by the village Radyně and Plzenec, which he bought in 1561 from Zdeněk of Šternberk. In the course of several years Jiřík founded other courts and therefore he can by right be taken for a founder of the dominion of Šťáhlavy, administred after his death by his two sons. First of them Karel Kokořovec built in 1548 a new fortress on the village square, which he had later extended into a Renaissance chateau. Second son built, together with his wife Dorota Týřovská, St. Vojtěch chapel above the chateau, being a central part of today´s church. In 1710 their grandson Jan Jindřich sold the whole vast dominion to Antonie Josefína Černínová, countess of Chudenice, for 260 thousand florins. Her relative, count Heřman Jakub Černín, next holder of dominion, had the chateau chapel in 1762 extended to a cathedral. In 1782 a south wing was built on to the chateau. Both these buildings were already built in baroque style. Former branch cathedral was in 1813 changed by Heřman´s son Jan Vojtěch Černín in a parish church, which became famous by its three domes.
Jan Vojtěch Černín of Chudenice (1745 - 1816) was the highest master of the hounds of the Czech kingdom and in the years 1784 through 1789 he had built in classicist style a splendid hunting lodge Waldschloss on the south slope of the hill Bor. The hunting lodge was later given the name Kozel, referring to pagan habit of the old Slavs, who immolated a billy goat on this site in the time of the spring equinox in order to reconcile gods in hope for a good harvest.
It was a little known Prague architect Václav Haberditz, who managed construction of the main chateau building on a peripheral ground plan around a central court. In mid 90s of the 18th century count Černín had the chateau extended by two couples of buildings. They were designed by an outstanding Czech architect Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi, who extended former simple layout to a large building complex. These days the chateau Kozel is administred by Památkový ústav v Plzni as a listed building and it is one of the most visited monuments in the West Bohemia.
Towards the end of the 18th century Šťáhlavy was as centre of the vast dominion the largest village of the West Bohemia. There lived those days 810 inhabitants in 92 houses and that´s why there was built a local school here in 1794.
In 1816 after J.V.Černín´s death inherited dominion of Šťáhlavy his relative Kristián of Valdštejn and Vartenberk. Those times Šťáhlavy was a dominium, that is to say seignorial authority, having jurisdiction around subject villages. Šťáhlavy dominion covered 50 villages and estates, a "Court district" was concerned. On 3rd June 1850 patrimonial authorities (legal and court authority) stopped to exercise their competence. Dominion was divided into three court districts, Šťáhlavy fell to Rokycany, Plzenec to Pilsen and Šťáhlavice to Blovice.
Upon mayor´s MUDr. Antonín Čížek initiation, there was established in 1885 Section of Central educational foundation, in 1893 Savings bank club andin 1909 Physical Education Club Sokol. A Voluntary firemen club founded in 1884 belonged to one of the oldest clubs in the village.
The Second World war definitively finished in the village on May 7, 1945 by arrival of the American Army. In 1947 Šťáhlavy was incorporated to the district Pilsen - country and in 1960 after state reestablishment (ČSR) arose a Westbohemian region covering 10 districts and Šťáhlavy, Šťáhlavice and Nezbavětice became an integrated village in a newly arisen district Pilsen - south.
Šťáhlavice
Referring to historical documents territory of today´s Šťáhlavice, just as Šťáhlavy, was settled as early as 5 thousand years ago. First time it is reported in writing as late as in 1379. Those days the village was divided in several parts. One of them belonged to the castle Lopata and the other to a certain Hospřida. Original village had in times turned in an independent nobleman´s farm, annexed in 1442 to Nezvěstice. Population of Šťáhlavice was related to this village, above all by assigning to the parish of the local All Saints church, by which they were buried. The village didn´t get disintegrated from the parish in Nezvěstice until 1813, when it was integrated to St. Adalbert church parish in Šťáhlavy.
In 1550 the nobleman´s farm was attached to the castle Valdštejn, to be in 1587 bought by the holder of the Šťáhlavy dominion Karel Kokořovec, which brought a definite integration to other parts of Šťáhlavice, belonging to the house of Kokořovec since 1539, when it was gained from the Doupovec of Doupov by Jiřík of Kokořov. People were those days occupied above all with agriculture and exploitation of wood, also crafts were doing well here – there were wanted especially smiths, cartwrights, millers, joiners etc … Since 2nd half of the 16th century, especially since its end had developed industry at the dominion of Šťáhlavy. In mid 17th century there is reported also a fortress in old writings, called Malé Šťáhlavy or Šťáhlavce. This might refer to a rest of a nobleman´s farm.
Since above mentioned year 1587 the village had developed as Šťáhlavy, part of the dominion of Šťáhlavy, it wasn´t however the residence of dominion any more. In 1850 villages became self-governed units and not even Šťáhlavice was exclusion. Since then history of the village has taken a new direction.
In 1897 there was built up a school with three classes in the village. By end of 19th century there were set up clubs in Šťáhlavice – the oldest covered Občanská beseda, established in 1890 and Voluntary fire service, founded in 1898. Those days began to rise a number of new large farms and homesteads. Quiet life in the village was not broken off until First World War broke out. Just as anywhere else also in Šťáhlavice people suffered from shortage of food and other needs, moreover men were recruited even from here to the front and some of them never came back again … End of the war was real liberation for everybody.. Soon after the war life in the village began to get back on the rails. Relatively soon renewal of social, cultural and association life – e.g. establishment of the Worker´s physical education club and Sokol in 1920 say for it.. Also the school in Šťáhlavice was reduced in the same year to one class. The school was at last in 1975 cancelled due to low number of pupils and pupils began to attend school in Nezvěstice. In 1928 the village was due to state reestablishment transferred from the district Blovice to district Pilsen.
In the 20s there were 3 pubs, butcher´s , a general store, one tailor, 2 shoemakers, one joiner, a smith and a cartwright. There came to a great soar of working professions in Šťáhlavice in relation with development of Škodovy závody in Pilsen, in 1932 there was thus set even a bus line Šťáhlavice-Pilsen.
The Second World War hit the village just as the first one, population was affected alike … Still during the war in 1944 there was set up a railway stop "Šťáhlavice-lom." in the line Nezvěstice-Rokycany. After the war has finished there was established a Unified farmers´cooperative. Due to new constitutional arrangement of the ČSR in 1960 Šťáhlavice was integrated, together with the village Nezbavětice, in one Municipal authority Šťáhlavy.
The village Šťáhlavy lies 14 km south of the city Pilsen in the valley of the river Úslava. To the west there is the hill Radyně with a fortress of the same name rising over the valley and there is also a growth of wood of the southwest foothills of the mountains Brdy spreading out as far as to the region of Rokycany, to which the village had belonged until 1949. Referring to historical documents the territory of the village was settled as early as in the 5th millenium B.C.
First written report on the village comes from the year 1239, when king Wenceslas I., son of Przemyslid Otakar I., gave the village to St. Laurentius church by the castle Pilsen in change for the settlement Benešovice u Stříbra. This is how the village gained its steady historical status.
It was for a short period, roughly half a century, that Šťáhlavy belonged to new Pilsen, founded in 1295 under the reign of Wenceslas II. It was held by noblemen until the half of the 15th century. Out of them first was in 1318 a certain Beneda, followed by Mareš, Ješek, Hynek and Vyšemír. Those times Šťáhlavy annexed the villages Lhůta, Kamýk and Neslívy. From the half of the 15th century the village belonged to the family of Doupovec of Doupov, who united each part of Šťáhlavy and had a fortress built on the site of today´s garden belonging to the restaurant "U Radyně".
In 1539 the Doupovec family sold Šťáhlavy, together with the fortress, an estate, a deserted castle Lopata and the villages Šťáhlavice, Nezbavětice, Sedlec, Lhůta, Neslívy, Nezvěstice, Žákava and Nevid, to the high-born lord Jiřík Kokořovec of Kokořov for 6 000 five dozens Meissen groschens. Jiřík Kokořovec further increased his property by the village Radyně and Plzenec, which he bought in 1561 from Zdeněk of Šternberk. In the course of several years Jiřík founded other courts and therefore he can by right be taken for a founder of the dominion of Šťáhlavy, administred after his death by his two sons. First of them Karel Kokořovec built in 1548 a new fortress on the village square, which he had later extended into a Renaissance chateau. Second son built, together with his wife Dorota Týřovská, St. Vojtěch chapel above the chateau, being a central part of today´s church. In 1710 their grandson Jan Jindřich sold the whole vast dominion to Antonie Josefína Černínová, countess of Chudenice, for 260 thousand florins. Her relative, count Heřman Jakub Černín, next holder of dominion, had the chateau chapel in 1762 extended to a cathedral. In 1782 a south wing was built on to the chateau. Both these buildings were already built in baroque style. Former branch cathedral was in 1813 changed by Heřman´s son Jan Vojtěch Černín in a parish church, which became famous by its three domes.
Jan Vojtěch Černín of Chudenice (1745 - 1816) was the highest master of the hounds of the Czech kingdom and in the years 1784 through 1789 he had built in classicist style a splendid hunting lodge Waldschloss on the south slope of the hill Bor. The hunting lodge was later given the name Kozel, referring to pagan habit of the old Slavs, who immolated a billy goat on this site in the time of the spring equinox in order to reconcile gods in hope for a good harvest.
It was a little known Prague architect Václav Haberditz, who managed construction of the main chateau building on a peripheral ground plan around a central court. In mid 90s of the 18th century count Černín had the chateau extended by two couples of buildings. They were designed by an outstanding Czech architect Ignác Jan Nepomuk Palliardi, who extended former simple layout to a large building complex. These days the chateau Kozel is administred by Památkový ústav v Plzni as a listed building and it is one of the most visited monuments in the West Bohemia.
Towards the end of the 18th century Šťáhlavy was as centre of the vast dominion the largest village of the West Bohemia. There lived those days 810 inhabitants in 92 houses and that´s why there was built a local school here in 1794.
In 1816 after J.V.Černín´s death inherited dominion of Šťáhlavy his relative Kristián of Valdštejn and Vartenberk. Those times Šťáhlavy was a dominium, that is to say seignorial authority, having jurisdiction around subject villages. Šťáhlavy dominion covered 50 villages and estates, a "Court district" was concerned. On 3rd June 1850 patrimonial authorities (legal and court authority) stopped to exercise their competence. Dominion was divided into three court districts, Šťáhlavy fell to Rokycany, Plzenec to Pilsen and Šťáhlavice to Blovice.
Upon mayor´s MUDr. Antonín Čížek initiation, there was established in 1885 Section of Central educational foundation, in 1893 Savings bank club andin 1909 Physical Education Club Sokol. A Voluntary firemen club founded in 1884 belonged to one of the oldest clubs in the village.
The Second World war definitively finished in the village on May 7, 1945 by arrival of the American Army. In 1947 Šťáhlavy was incorporated to the district Pilsen - country and in 1960 after state reestablishment (ČSR) arose a Westbohemian region covering 10 districts and Šťáhlavy, Šťáhlavice and Nezbavětice became an integrated village in a newly arisen district Pilsen - south.
Šťáhlavice
Referring to historical documents territory of today´s Šťáhlavice, just as Šťáhlavy, was settled as early as 5 thousand years ago. First time it is reported in writing as late as in 1379. Those days the village was divided in several parts. One of them belonged to the castle Lopata and the other to a certain Hospřida. Original village had in times turned in an independent nobleman´s farm, annexed in 1442 to Nezvěstice. Population of Šťáhlavice was related to this village, above all by assigning to the parish of the local All Saints church, by which they were buried. The village didn´t get disintegrated from the parish in Nezvěstice until 1813, when it was integrated to St. Adalbert church parish in Šťáhlavy.
In 1550 the nobleman´s farm was attached to the castle Valdštejn, to be in 1587 bought by the holder of the Šťáhlavy dominion Karel Kokořovec, which brought a definite integration to other parts of Šťáhlavice, belonging to the house of Kokořovec since 1539, when it was gained from the Doupovec of Doupov by Jiřík of Kokořov. People were those days occupied above all with agriculture and exploitation of wood, also crafts were doing well here – there were wanted especially smiths, cartwrights, millers, joiners etc … Since 2nd half of the 16th century, especially since its end had developed industry at the dominion of Šťáhlavy. In mid 17th century there is reported also a fortress in old writings, called Malé Šťáhlavy or Šťáhlavce. This might refer to a rest of a nobleman´s farm.
Since above mentioned year 1587 the village had developed as Šťáhlavy, part of the dominion of Šťáhlavy, it wasn´t however the residence of dominion any more. In 1850 villages became self-governed units and not even Šťáhlavice was exclusion. Since then history of the village has taken a new direction.
In 1897 there was built up a school with three classes in the village. By end of 19th century there were set up clubs in Šťáhlavice – the oldest covered Občanská beseda, established in 1890 and Voluntary fire service, founded in 1898. Those days began to rise a number of new large farms and homesteads. Quiet life in the village was not broken off until First World War broke out. Just as anywhere else also in Šťáhlavice people suffered from shortage of food and other needs, moreover men were recruited even from here to the front and some of them never came back again … End of the war was real liberation for everybody.. Soon after the war life in the village began to get back on the rails. Relatively soon renewal of social, cultural and association life – e.g. establishment of the Worker´s physical education club and Sokol in 1920 say for it.. Also the school in Šťáhlavice was reduced in the same year to one class. The school was at last in 1975 cancelled due to low number of pupils and pupils began to attend school in Nezvěstice. In 1928 the village was due to state reestablishment transferred from the district Blovice to district Pilsen.
In the 20s there were 3 pubs, butcher´s , a general store, one tailor, 2 shoemakers, one joiner, a smith and a cartwright. There came to a great soar of working professions in Šťáhlavice in relation with development of Škodovy závody in Pilsen, in 1932 there was thus set even a bus line Šťáhlavice-Pilsen.
The Second World War hit the village just as the first one, population was affected alike … Still during the war in 1944 there was set up a railway stop "Šťáhlavice-lom." in the line Nezvěstice-Rokycany. After the war has finished there was established a Unified farmers´cooperative. Due to new constitutional arrangement of the ČSR in 1960 Šťáhlavice was integrated, together with the village Nezbavětice, in one Municipal authority Šťáhlavy.
