Bořanovice | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Bohemian |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Prague-East |
Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
Coordinates: | 50.1783°N 14.4789°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1227 |
Area Total Km2: | 5.35 |
Elevation M: | 249 |
Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 950 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 250 65 |
Bořanovice is a municipality and village in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
The village of Pakoměřice is an administrative part of Bořanovice.
The name is derived from the personal name Bořan (an abbreviated form of Bořivoj), meaning "the village of Bořan's people".[2]
Bořanovice is located about 6km (04miles) north of Prague. It lies mostly in an agricultural landscape of the Central Elbe Table, but the western part of the municipal territory extends into the Prague Plateau.
The first written mention of Bořanovice is from 1227. Pakoměřice was first documented in 1352, when the church was mentioned.[3]
The I/9 road (which connects the D8 motorway with Česká Lípa and the Czech-German border) passes through the municipality.
In Pakoměřice is the complex of a rural castle with the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The church was originally a Gothic building, rebuilt in the Baroque style. The castle was originally a medieval fortress which underwent Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical modifications.[4]