Lovosice

In the 13th century, the village belonged to the lords of Lichtemburk, who sold them twice - in 1251 and 1272 - to the Meissen Cistercian monastery of Altzella. They belonged to the Lovosice monastery until 1415, when King Wenceslas IV. took it and made it to a fief of Vlášek from Kladno. Roughly, in the 15th century a fortress was built in Lovosice, about which very little is known. In 1510, the village was registered into the hands of the Šlejnice family, who probably had the local fortress rebuilt into a Renaissance chateau. At some point in the third quarter of the 16th century. In 1574, Lovosice was acquired by Jan of Valdštejn, whose son Adam achieved the promotion of the village to a town in 1600.

In 1756, the first battle of the Seven Years' War was fought near Lovosice, in which King Frederick II. the Great of Prussia defeated the Austrian army led by General von Brown. In 1783, the Lovosice estate was acquired by the Schwarzenbergs, who held it until 1945. In the first half of the 19th century, the town was hit by two catastrophes: in 1809 a large fire and in 1845 a large flood, but the town recovered from both.

Lovosice has been a free town since the middle of the 19th century. The industrial development of the city was supported by the railway, which in the years 1850 - 1851 connected it with Prague and Dresden. This was followed by the founding of a “cikorka” factory, a sugar factory, a brewery and most importantly the first chemical factory in 1900. The town acquired a modern character through a radical reconstruction in the second half of the 20th century, during which a number of older buildings were demolished, including the former Jewish ghetto.

Although Lovosice is traditionally seen as an industrial town, there are interesting monuments: in addition to the already mentioned castle, it is mainly the Baroque church of St. Wenceslas from 1745 and the so-called Pfannschmidt's villa from 1887. The villa has a remarkable stucco decoration in the interior. Lovosice is a popular starting point for trips to Lovoš and further to the Central Bohemian Uplands.

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