Hradištko

Hradišťko (more precisely Hradišťko-pod-Medníkem , Hradistko-under-Mednik) is a commune in Bohemia Centrale, district of Prague - southern) to approximately 25 km in the south of the capital. The village (1300 inhabitants) is located on a height dominating the confluence of two rivers, the Vltava in the west and the Sázava in north, little distance from the top of Medník (471m), in an area known for the beauty of its nature (canyons, flora) and its bonds with the history of Bohemian (monasteries, river navigation, extraction of gold in particular). Become as from the years 1920 an area of tourism, with the development of the camp-site and the second home, the common one also developed activities in other economic sectors (printing works, ceramics, techniques of the breeding).

History

A settlement is attested as of the 13th century on the site strengthened called Sekanka established on a rock escarpment dominating Vltava, being devoted to an artisanal and commercial activity, in connection with the monastery Benedictine of the island over the river located near the confluence. The grounds of the village, after having belonged to this monastery, then with various private individuals, formed part then of the goods of the prémontré monastery of Strahov, near Prague, until 1945. On the administrative level the village has the statute of commune since 1848.

During the Second world war, Hradišťko, from its geographical location, was as of the beginning in the Protectorat of Bohemia-Moravie. Moreover, inside this one, the German authorities cut out a territory prohibited to the Czech citizens of 440 km ², centered on Neveklov, delimited by Vltava in the west and Sázava in north, and extending to the surroundings from Benešov in the east and Sedlčany in the south. The inhabitants of the village of Hradišťko, located at the north-western corner of the zone thus defined, were summarily expropriés and expelled by it, like all those of all the zone concerned and the site used to create there various installations of military use (School of the Genius of the Waffen-SS, police academy, parade ground, field of fire), to which was added in 1943 an appendix (among others) of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Bavaria. The deportees who there were interned and used with various forced labors in the vicinity were foreign, with a strong proportion of French.

Others

Because of its site and its situation during the war, Hradišťko sees also its name sometimes associated with a treasure Nazi known as of Stěchovice (another commune, located at 3km, on opposite bank of Moldau), buried by the S in the last days of the Second world war. This treasure would have been made up, for a share of files (of which a share, if not totality, actually found since 1946), and for another, always conjectural, of gold and works of art, whose trace, in spite of various initiatives, does not seem to be found to date.

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