Mělník is undermined by corridors and cellars - Horydoly.cz - Outdoor Generation

According to the Czech Chronicle of the Czech Chronicle, the Hradiště Pšov was the center of the Pšovany tribe living on the basin of the Pšovka stream flowing from the rocky Kokořínsko.Kosmas states that Pšov was connected to the Central Bohemian Domain of Bořivoj with Ludmila in 874 or 875, the daughter of the last Pšovský prince Slavibor and the grandmother of St. Wenceslas.Hradiště Pšov was then rebuilt at the end of 10.century to the new stone castle of Mělník.

Was Pšov a mythical Canburg?

Let's add a fantastic theory that Pšov was a mythical Canburg.Historians know today that Canburg existed but no one has discovered it yet.

Since the death of Sam in 659, the report on Prince Mojmir in 833 has been in the history of Bohemia, a deep time abyss except one mention of Canburg.

In 788, the Frankish King Charles the Great, later the Emperor, even later declared the Holy and most recently for the patron saint of Europe, establishes Czech Mark in northern Bavaria, ie the military border area.After the rebuttal of the Avar Empire between 791 and 803, Charles the Great focused on Czechs.In 805, three Frankish churches are doing a military expedition to force Czechs to pay tribute, or peace tax.Somewhere at the confluence of the Ohře and the Elbe, in the traditional area where the troops pulled before, the Charles Army joined the Charles Army.It was commanded by Charles the Younger, the son of Charles the Great.

Dragged to the Canburg Castle, who was bews for 40 days but did not.This was historically the first famous victory of Czech fighters.A year later, Charles sent the Great another army under the command of the second -born son Pipin, who has already defeated Bohemia and forced his tribute.He was led to Bavaria to the reign of St. Wenceslas, when he was redirected to Saxony because power in Europe changed.

As Canburg, there are many other locations next to Melnik - Kanina in the Kokořín region, Hradsko near Mšena, Oškobrh, Kanín near Libice nad Cidlinou, Hradec u Kadana, three -cross hill or opposite castle near Litoměřice, Lovosice or Divoká Šárka in Prague.Indeed, even Wogastisburg, where he defended himself of the army of Franconian Dagobert two centuries earlier, is not known today.

Historical underground in a soft rock

Below the historic town of Mělník there is an underground system to a depth of two to three floors, which interferes with the city walls.

Only a fraction of the Mělník underground is made to tourists.A large parts of the corridors are known, but many are unknown and often walled up.Considerably long sections are still waiting for mapping.The ongoing mapping has a purely practical reason.The molding of the opuky and sandstone from Mesozoic does not stand out with stability.

Why did it go to Mělník in the Middle Ages under the ground up to a depth of 25 meters?There were no veins of gold or silver.In the Mělník monkeys there are only shells and shells of the Mesozoic molluscs.But he did not appreciate the Middle Ages so much.

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The city was rich thanks to trade, crafts, fertile agricultural landscape and wine and needed space to store supplies.The safest it was underground.

The cellars under the Mělnice houses were not separate but were interconnected and some corridors led behind the gates of the city.The burghers had the opportunity not only to store food, wine or beer.They had a space where they could resort in case of danger.This was not only the invasions of enemies, but also fires that were frequent and devastating.Water for extinguishing was not available as easily and quickly as it would have been needed.And when the house lay down with ashes, the cellar in the rock remained reliably.Even with valuables, with the most necessary equipment, supplies and finally with a bed to sleep.

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A huge well supplied the whole city with water

The direct access from the cellars to the Mělnická Studně, which represented the city for three centuries for three centuries, was also essential.It extends to a depth of 54 meters, which is 7 meters above the Elbe surface.Its width is 4.543 meters, which is the widest well in the Czech Republic.However, they invited the Kutná Hora miners to excavate it in the thirteenth century.Have taken a spectacular work - look down do not miss.

Just be careful, the well is surrounded by bars so that visitors do not fall there, but the cell phone could easily fall for an attractive picture.Wouldn't be alone at the bottom.So, for example.You were picked up.On the other hand, the almost three -meter layer remained on the bottom that attacked there at the end of 19.century in removing a dilapidated Baroque chapel that stood on the square above the well.However, water now retains drinking quality.Today, the well is blinded by a vault culminating in a fairly inconspicuous glass hatch.The only thing that draws attention to it is concentric circles in the pavement of the square, reminiscent of circles on the water.

The new Fragner's fountain from 1938 is decently placed aside.

Let's go back to the underground to the original well.The approach was naturally from the surface of the square.Water was pumped with a rump with a bucket of 100 liters.Adding the weight of the bucket, it was together to 140 kilograms - a proper portion of exertion for two strong men in a pedal bike.The other two then the bucket poured into the fountain.However, they also often had a punishment.As prisoners or to repay the debt.

For the water people went to the fountain on the square, but from the well also led the feeders, ie some water supply to important customers - to the chateau, to the monastery to the hospice.By the way, the activity of the monastery was so appreciated by Mělník so much that they were resisted even when it was to be abolished on the basis of the Josephine decree.Did not survive the socialist era.

Today it is located in the former monastery Regional Museum Mělník.The genius loci seems to work: the museum is not a fossil, but a very active and helpful organism that literally comes to its fellow citizens with a number of attractive actions even far from the square.Indeed, the underground journey to the well in the cellar of the museum can be seen, but via the grille.Not modified so that visitors can go there.

Unstable corridors can fall at any time

After the underground lost a protective function, it gradually lost its original appearance.Home owners have been separated from their cellars with a wall - of course who would like to go to the cellar by neighbors or thieves.This, however, lost an overview.And at the same time the original air tension and natural air conditioning have disappeared a little bit.The underground is more wet, there are 70% humidity, and the rock is therefore more "Malní".The floor of the accessible corridors covers mud.

The main trouble is statics.Already in the last century, the land has been unexpectedly unexpectedly.Jenou floor of the basement of the restaurant, at other times the road and no one knows with absolute certainty whether, where and when other slumps will appear.How to deal with a survey and a focused plan of a well -known underground is still a question.Wider access to the city intention, the problem is ownership and finance.

Of course, the castle was connected to the underground system, later rebuilt to Mělník Castle.Wine matured in medieval cellars.Today we will see historical barrels, the exposition of the famous local brand Ludmila, learn where the traditional bottle - calama - and finally also that the deepest cellar leads to the vineyard in the direction of the vineyard.The place where the hallway entered, but he is blinded.The corridor was used for the last time during the war.The tourist guide suggests that the declassification is not the wish of the chateau owner.If the corridor can hide the personnel "skeletons" or because the old castle belongs to the secret, we can only guess.

The Mělník underground is managed by the Mělník Tourist Information Center, which is located practically around the corner of Míru Square and the entrance to the underground with the exhibition and the well leads directly from the courtyard.

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