Hrdějovice | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | South Bohemian |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | České Budějovice |
Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
Coordinates: | 49.0189°N 14.4786°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1350 |
Area Total Km2: | 8.82 |
Elevation M: | 385 |
Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1491 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 373 61 |
Hrdějovice (German: Hartowitz) is a municipality and village in České Budějovice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,500 inhabitants.
The village of Opatovice is an administrative part of Hrdějovice.
The name is derived from the personal name Hrděj, meaning "the village of Hrděj's people".[2]
Hosín is located about 4km (02miles) north of České Budějovice. Most of the municipal territory lies in the České Budějovice Basin, but it also extends into a tip of the Třeboň Basin in the north. The western municipal border is formed by the Vltava River. There is a former china clay mine called Orty, protected as a nature monument.
The first written mention of Hrdějovice is from 1350. Opatovice was first mentioned in 1378. From 1661 to abolition of serfdom in 1850, it belonged to the Hluboká estate owned by the Schwarzenberg family.[3]
Hrdějovice is located on the railway line heading from České Budějovice to Tábor and Chotoviny.[4]
Among the landmarks of Hrdějovice is the Chapel of the Virgin Mary, built in the Baroque style in the mid-18th century and rebuilt in 1876, and a pilgrimage chapel with a healing well from 1889.[5]
The layout and the folk architecture in Opatovice is well preserved. The village is protected as a village monument zone.[6] The main landmark in Opatovice is the Chapel of the Holy Trinity from 1863.[5]