Polička

Geobox | Settlement
name = Polička
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category = Town


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country = Czech Republic
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region = Pardubice
region_type = Region
district = Svitavy
district_type = District
commune = Polička
municipality =
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river = Bílý potok
location =
elevation = 555
lat_d = 49
lat_m = 42
lat_s = 54
lat_NS = N
long_d = 16
long_m = 16
long_s = 3
long_EW = E
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area = 33.11
area_round = 2
population = 9128
population_date = 2006-07-03
population_density = auto
established = 1265
established_type = Founded
mayor = Jaroslav Martinů
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map_background = Czechia - background map.png map_caption = Location in the Czech Republic
map_locator = Czechia
commons = Polička
statistics = [http://www.statnisprava.cz/ebe/ciselniky.nsf/i/578576 statnisprava.cz]
website = [http://www.policka.org/ www.policka.org]
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Polička is a town on Bohemia-Moravia borderline in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 10,000 inhabitants. It is about 17 km west of Svitavy.

History

Polička was founded in the year 1265 by Bohemian king Přemysl Otakar II

The name of the land "Na polickach" (On the Fields) appears already in the list of places which in 1167 King Vladislav I gave under the administration of the Praemonstratensian monastery in Litomyšl. A settlement was built there gradually in order to defend the country's trading path, leading from Moravia to Bohemia through dense forests.

On September 27, 1265 King Přemysl Ottokar II issued a decree in which he ordered the Royal Administrator Conrad of Loewendorf to take proper care of "the new setting of our town "Na polickach". Undoubtedly, Conrad's plan was the beginning of the basic ground plan which still exists: a trapezoid square with four corner streets leading to four gates is surrounded with a complex of buildings confined into an elliptical shape.

It was Přemysl Ottokar II who first dedicated the town to his wife Kunhuta as a dowry. In the 14th century, Queen Eliška Rejčka was given the town as a forfeit for her dowry by her second husband King Rudolf I of Hapsburg. Later the profit from the town's revenues remained a part of the dowry of wives of members of the ruling family. Thus the reginal dowry town of Polička entered history.

External links

* [http://www.policka.org Official Pages of Town Polička]