Trest (Czech Republic)

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• T�e�� CoA

• Czech Republic
• Czech Municipalities
• Region of the Highlands (Kraj Vysocina)
• Jihlava okres

T�e�� city flag

T�e�� - the second biggest centre in the Jihlava district, lies in a deep defile in the Czech-moravian highland, surrounded by mild as well as steeper hills. In the east �pi��k (734m) rises, in the north �e��nek (768m) and on the horizon of the south side Javo�ice (836). The original heart of the town � the parish village T�e�� � was founded at the turn of the 12th and the 13th centuries. It was founded by the brook, where two trade routs crossed. The first written document dates back to 1349 when T�e�� was a small demesne with a church and a citadel and belonged to Z�vi� from T�e��. There were several owners in the course of following centuries in T�e��. It belonged to the �ternberk family, the Vencel�k family, the Herbenstein family � they owed it for 300 years and the last 100 years till 1945 it belonged to Wenzel- Sternbach family. T�e�� became a town in 1901. The foundation of the townlet of T�e�� with its Jewish community was without doubt connected with the discovery and royal mining of silver in the Jihlava region (around 1240). The townlet was founded on the left bank of the brook T�e�tice with a big triangular square in the middle. The original village with the parish church of St. Martin and with the citadel lay on the right bank. In the 16th century when T�e�� was in the possession of the Vencel�k�s family from Vrchovi�t� and in �irovnice, on the origin place of the citadel was built a chateau and on the square the Lutheran church was founded � nowdays the church of St. Catherine. The Empire synagogue built after the big fire of the town in 1824 has preserved left by former Jewish community. Franz Kafka�s stays in the town are connected with the T�e�� Jewish community. The origin of his work �The Country Doctor" is set into this scene. The industry was developing at the beginning of the 19th century. The cloth factory, the match-factory were founded and the small series manufacture of clock boxes and carved furniture began in 1868. The evidence of the T�e�� Christmas crib making that has been devolopig since the 18th century attracts the visitors of the town museum. Originaly only drawn and coloured figures turned into exacting carving execution in the course of the 19th century.
Source: The T�e�� history page.
Jarig Bakker, 8 July 2000

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