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Benešov (Czechia)
Blansko okres, South Moravian region
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image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 24 May 2002
adopted 22 Nov 2001
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Benešov municipality flag
Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí Čr (2001)
- Benešov, Blansko district, South Moravian region - flag adopted 22 Nov
2001.
The village of Benešov is situated on a plateau of the Drahany Higlands
between the tops of Paprč (721m) and Skalky (735m). The first verified
documentation about Benešov dates back to 1362. The community is also found
on the map of Moravia and Silesia from 14 th century. There used to be
deep and barely accessible woods in the region. In 1078 it was given to
a Premonstratensian monastery.The prelates of it summoned glass blowers
from Germany who started glass-making at the place where now there is the
Pavlov yard. A village called Benýška was built there for the glass blowers,
as verified by an inscription in the yard. Later on the village petered
out.
Benešov originated from either a fortified settlement or a yeomanship
with agricultural outbuildings. In the year 1610 the settlement included
even twenty houses and had its own seal with a running hart on it. After
abolishing the monastery a religious foundation was established, thanks
to which a church was built in that very place. It was consecrated on 11th November1787. Both this church and the cast-iron cross in front of it
are protected as national cultural monuments.
The eastern part of the village consists of a local part, Pavlov, based
in 1755 together with a yard near the pond. This yard used to serve as
a collateral seat of the monastery. In the part of Pavlov the new chapel
was built and consecrated in 1994.
Benešov has charming surroundings from the Nature Reserve of Pavlov's
wet grounds to protected regions of Kořenec, where the painter Řehořek
came from and the region of Horní Bělá.
Source: this website,
Jarig Bakker, 24 May 2002
Benešov coat of arms
image from this webpage, located
by Jarig Bakker, 24 May 2002