Valdice
Sign in to saveValdice (until 1950 Kartouzy-Valdice) is a municipality and village in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. It is known for a former monastery, which is today a high-security prison.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Valdice
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Valdice od jihu.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View from the south
- Settlement.image_flag
- Valdice vlajka.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Valdice znak.gif
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hradec Králové
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Jičín
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Czech Republic
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Czech Republic
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1627
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 0.92
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 308
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Czech Republic
- Official name
- Valdice
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Population
- 1281
- Area
- 0.91916
- Elevation
- 308
- Shares border with
- Železnice
- Official website
- www.valdice.cz
- Image
- Valdice od jihu.jpg
- Licence plate code
- H
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- Commons category
- Valdice
- postal code
- 507 11
- Commons gallery
- Valdice
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- time of earliest written record
- 1627-01-01
- historical region
- Bohemia
- number of houses
- 181
- mean age
- 42
- P8168
- Arabian Ostrich
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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Valdice (until 1950 Kartouzy-Valdice) is a municipality and village in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. It is known for a former monastery, which is today a high-security prison.
==Etymology== Valdice was named after the nearby deer park (from German Wald, meaning "forest"). It was also called Kartouzy after the local monastery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valdice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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