Panovnické návštěvy Jindřichova Hradce v 17. a 18. století
Visits by the Sovereign to Jindřichův Hradec in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: In the post-White Mountain period, and even more after the Thirty Years’ War, the Czech kings of the Habsburg family ruled mainly from Vienna, which became their permanent and predominant city of residence from the reign of Leopold I at the latest. Gradually, the frequency of their visits to the Bohemian lands diminished. Chief among these were the occasional journeys that the Habsburgs undertook, whose route usually copied the imperial highways. One of the most important of these was that running through Jindřichův Hradec (Neuhaus), a residential and populous town belonging in the period under review to the powerful and wealthy families of Slavata and later Černín. The present study discusses visits by the sovereign to Jindřichův Hradec from several perspectives: in terms of ceremonial entry into the city, dining, festivities, communications between the nobility, regional governors, court authorities, city or church institutions, and, last but not least, from a technical point of view, as each visit was associated with an enormous logistical and organizational burden which tested the capacities of the entire apparatus of the nobility and significantly affected the everyday functioning of the city as an organism.

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