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Hořice (Jičín District)

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- summer (DST)
  
CEST (UTC+2)

Area
  
21.46 km²

Elevation
  
311 m

Local time
  
Wednesday 9:37 PM

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Weather
  
4°C, Wind NW at 13 km/h, 66% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Městské Muzeum A Galerie V, Masarykova věž samostatnosti, Expivovar, Sochařský park U svatého, Smetanovy sady

Hořice ( [ˈɦor̝ɪtsɛ], German: Horschitz, also known as Hořice v Podkrkonoší) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 9,000 inhabitants.

Contents

Map of 508 01 Ho%C5%99ice, Czechia

Villages Březovice, Doubrava, Chlum, Chvalina, Libonice and Svatogothardská Lhota are administrative parts of Hořice.

People

  • Jacob Felix (1832–1905), Jewish doctor
  • Josef Ladislav Jandera (1776–1857), mathematician
  • Jan Levit (1884–1944), Jewish physician
  • Petr Maixner (1831–1884), painter
  • Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923), Jewish writer, philosopher
  • Karel Vik (1883–1964), painter
  • Jiri Karnet (1920 - 2011), writer, journalist

    • References

    Hořice (Jičín District) Wikipedia
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