Welcome to the Town of
Podebrady

Central Bohemia Region of Czech Republic

(approx. 50 kilometers from Prague)

The history of Podebrady town reaches back to primeval times, before the beginnings of the Czech state. A long-distance trade route running from Prague to Eastern Bohemia, Silesia and Poland passed through the then forested landscape interwoven wit a dense network of river branches. This important communication intersected the Labe river to the west of the present town.

The existence of the Slavnik castle site at nearby Libice nad Cidlinou undoubledly had an influence on the development of the community. The Slavonic metropolis of eastern Bohemia originated in 995 thanks to the Prague members of the Premyslid family. This was the cause of the division of the previous Slavnik principality into smaller administrative wholes. One of them was Podebrady. The name Podebrady has appeared in written materials approximately wince the mid-12th century in connection with the aristocratic Sezemice and later Hroznaty families.

In the latter half of the 13th century Podebrady fell into the hands of King Premysl Otakar II as an escheat. In the years 1262 to 1268 this king built a stone water castle on the site of an older fortified seat in a strategic position on the Labe river. In its outer bailey a new settlement agglommeration was formed where the castle domestics, the first merchants and craftsmen lived. Podebrady changed into a tributatory town, which was often the object of the interest of Czech rulers. Apart from other things the reason for this lay in the attractive possibilities of hinting in the local meadow forests, enhanced by the small distance of the hunting-grounds from Prague. Podebrady also acted as host to King Vaclav II and John of Luxembourg.

A historic milestone in the history of Podebrady was the year 1905, when it was visited by the German estate owner Prince von Buellow. This well-known water diviner found in the inner courtyard signs of a strong spring, which was later really bored to a depth od 97.6 meters. The discovery of carbonic mineral water resulted in the openig of the first spa season already in 1908. After World War I Podebrady rapidly changed into a spa town which from 1926 specialized in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, rapidly gaining renown not only in this country, but also abroad.

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