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28-436: Erpužice lies approximately 31 kilometres (19 mi) east of Tachov , 26 km (16 mi) west of Plzeň , and 104 km (65 mi) west of Prague . The villages of Blahousty and Malovice are administrative parts of Erpužice. This Plzeň Region location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tachov Tachov ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈtaxof] ; German : Tachau )

56-771: A millwheel was restored. It is used by the Town Cultural Centre and the Tachov's Children Choir. Vysoká is a 563 m (1,847 ft) high hill to the west of the town. There is a 25 m (82 ft) high observation tower on its top and a monument that commemorates the Battle of Tachov . Mohyla is a memorial that commemorates the death of 232 people, who were killed during the death marches during World War II. Czechoslovak Hussite Church The Czechoslovak Hussite Church ( Czech : Církev československá husitská , CČSH or CČH ; Slovak : Cirkev československá husitská )

84-535: A new castle with a massive round stone tower there. He also founded a walled town near the castle. During the Hussite Wars (1419–1434), the town was several times besieged and conquered. In 1427, Prokop the Great defeated the crusaders in the Battle of Tachov . The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) damaged the town considerably. In 1664, Count Johann Anton Losy became the new proprietor. The Losy family began conversion of

112-577: Is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia . Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Moravian Church trace their tradition back to the Hussite reformers and acknowledge Jan Hus (John Huss) as their predecessor. It was well-supported by Czechoslovakia's first president , Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , who himself belonged to

140-610: Is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic . It has about 14,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Mže River. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone . The villages of Bíletín, Malý Rapotín, Mýto, Oldřichov, Světce, Velký Rapotín, Vilémov and Vítkov are administrative parts of Tachov. Tachov is located about 53 km (33 mi) west of Plzeň . The eastern and central parts of

168-553: Is the oldest church in Tachov and may antedate the town itself. In 1802 the Windisch-Graetzs bought it and they made it a family tomb. It is a simple building located in park, which replaced a former churchyard. There are still many tombstones of significant burgesses, who lived in Tachov during the 15th–18th centuries. In 1947 the Czechoslovak Hussite Church took over this place. The former Franciscan monastery and

196-640: The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren . The Czechoslovak Hussite Church describes itself as neo-Hussite. Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Moravian Church trace their tradition back to the Hussite reformers and acknowledge Jan Hus (John Huss) as their predecessor. The forerunner of the CČSH was the Jednota (Union of the Catholic Clergy), which was founded in 1890 to promote modernist reforms in

224-785: The Old Catholic Church , and also espoused a tendency to a rationalist and Unitarian Christian theology, but when adopted its creed in 1958 it was founded on the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed . The church is a member of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic, the Conference of European Churches , and the Leuenberg Community of Churches . Relations between the church and other members of

252-749: The Reichsgau Sudetenland . Most of the German-speaking population was expelled in 1945 according to the Beneš decrees . The area was only partly repopulated, mostly by Czechs and Slovaks, but also by immigrants from Romania and Ukraine . Later on uranium was mined here, attracting laborers to work in the mines. After the Velvet Revolution that ended the Communist era in 1989, the uranium mines were closed. Some German companies established factories in

280-570: The Assumption of the Virgin Mar was originally a Gothic church, but it went through many arrangements during the 14th century. The last reconstruction lasted from 1904 to 1908 and the church was rebuilt in Neo-Gothic style. The inside arrangements come from 1670. It does not have only the classical function of a church. Nowadays there are held many concerts during the year. The church of Saint Wenceslaus

308-609: The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene were founded in 1466 and since this year both buildings went through many reconstructions. The Italian architect Martino Allio made the first reconstruction in 1686–1694, and the most important one came in years 1745–1750. In 1945 bombs damaged the church and four years later it was closed. Since 1945, the monastery has been used as the Museum of the Upper Palatinate Forest , and it offers information about

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336-694: The Czech Republic and three congregations in the Bratislava Diocese in Slovakia . There are approximately 266 priests in active ministry, of whom 130 are women. Candidates of ministry are prepared at the Hussite Faculty of Theology at Charles University in Prague. It draws its teachings from the traditional Christianity presented by the Church Fathers (Patristics), with the first Seven Ecumenical Councils ,

364-576: The Czech independence, the Czechoslovak Church's membership increased rapidly. In the 1921 Czechoslovak census, the first post-war census, 523,232 people claimed to be adherents of this church in what is today the Czech Republic. In 1930, the membership further grew to 779,672. With 7.3% of total population, it became the prevailing religion in several regions of Bohemia and to a lesser degree in Moravia . At

392-573: The Roman Catholic Church, such as use of the vernacular in the liturgy and the adoption of voluntary rather than compulsory clerical celibacy. The radical movement that resulted in the foundation of a new Church began in the Christmas season of 1919, when Christmas masses were celebrated in Czech in many Czechoslovak churches. The CCH was established on January 8, 1920, by Dr. Karel Farský , who became its first Patriarch and author of its liturgy. It

420-570: The Utraquist mass. Clergy wear a black robe with an embroidered red chalice and a white stole during the service. There is no veneration of saints as practiced in the Apostolic Churches , but images of saints are employed in the church decoration. In the post-1920 period new churches were built, but only a few portraits were considered appropriate to place in them, particularly representations of Christ, and occasionally pictures of Jan Hus. In

448-579: The Windisch-Graetzs bought it and rebuilt it as a castle. The castle that was finished in 1700 went down, and nowadays there are only remains of the walls and a small tower. The last one is a riding hall from the time of romanticism, which was built in 1830. It is the second largest riding hall in Central Europe, after the Viennese riding hall . Husmann's Mill is a Baroque mill founded by the regent Jan Filip Husmann in 1645. During reconstruction in 2006–2007,

476-454: The area to make use of the cheap labour. However, the Tachov area is still among the economically least developed Czech regions. Tachov is located on the Planá – Domažlice railway line of local importance. Around 1300, the town fortifications were built around the town. They gradually became a pride of Tachov, because they belong to the best-preserved wall systems in the country. The medieval town

504-528: The beginning of Communist rule, the 1950 census recorded 946,497 adherents of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. In the following decades there was no official census of religious affiliation in what is today the Czech Republic, although it is apparent that under Communist rule, membership started to collapse. At its beginning, the Hussite Church sought relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church and

532-600: The ecumenical movement are cordial, but remained strained with the country's Roman Catholic leadership. The first woman to become a bishop of the Czechoslovak Hussite church, Jana Šilerová , was elected to a seven-year term of office in April 1999. In January 1999, Catholic Archbishop Miloslav Vlk made a public statement of disapproval, warning against election of a woman to this position and saying that it would cause deterioration of ecumenical relations. Following criticism by

560-523: The equal participation of the laity in church leadership. The Hussite Church, as with its sister church, the Moravian Church , teaches the doctrine of apostolic succession . The celebration of the liturgy is the center of worship practice. It used to be two forms, which have much in common with the texts of the Catholic Mass , but there are also elements of Luther's German Mass and the tradition of

588-443: The history of Tachov and the region surrounding it. The museum is used for many activities and many expositions are held here every year. The Jewish cemetery, founded in 1615, is located in the southern part of the town. There are 190 gravestones here, and the oldest preserved one is from 1700. Světce is a complex of three historical buildings. One of them is a monastery built in the 17th century. Josef II cancelled it and so in 1787

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616-517: The iconography of the church the chalice plays a major role, usually depicted in red, as it was used in the 15th century as a battle standard on the flags of the Hussites. It is found in the church, to the sacerdotal, the bindings of liturgical books, church steeples and church banners. After a split from the Catholic Church, amidst the post-war atmosphere of anti-Catholic agitation and euphoria about

644-591: The medieval castle to a large baroque château. In 1784, the title passed to the Windisch-Graetz family. The Windisch-Graetzs, in their turn, rebuilt the house in the classical style at great expense. Until 1918, Tachov – Tachau was part of Austria-Hungary , in the district of the same name, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia . In 1938, it was occupied by the Nazi Germany and administered as part of

672-526: The municipal territory with the town proper lie in the Upper Palatine Forest Foothills . The western part lies in the Upper Palatinate Forest and includes the highest point of Tachov, the hill Světecký vrch at 616 m (2,021 ft) above sea level. The Mže River flows through the town. The area was inhabited by humans around 8,000–6,000 BCE. The first written mention of Tachov is from 1126. King Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233–1278) built

700-552: The work of Saints Cyril and Methodius , and the Protestant Reformation tradition, especially Utraquist and Hussite thought. Like Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, and Anglo-Catholics , the Czechoslovak Hussite Church recognizes seven sacraments . Like some of the Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, it emphasizes the freedom of conscience of individual believers, practices the ordination of women , and emphasizes

728-480: Was enclosed by an 8–10 m high and 150 cm thick circular wall. There were 26 towers around the perimeter of the walls, which reached a height of 11–14 m. To this day, 21 towers or their fragments have been preserved. The Tachov Castle with a cylindrical tower was built during the reign of Ottokar II. In 1802 the tower was taken down, and the Windisch-Graetz family built a Renaissance castle instead. The construction

756-420: Was finished in 1808 and the Windisch-Graetzs lived here until 1939. During World War II, the castle was used for civil and military purposes, but it was seriously ruined, so in 1968 there was the possibility of demolition. Eventually, the castle was saved and from 1969 to 1983 it was under reconstruction. Today, part of the building is used as a primary art school and the rest is open to the public. The Church of

784-651: Was known until 1971 as the Czechoslovak Church . The head of the church continues to bear the title of Patriarch . The church had a working-class membership and supported a socialist economic system in the years leading up to the 1948 Czechoslovak coup . According to 2021 censuses less than 25 000 people identified as adherents of the church, mostly in the Czech Republic and some in Slovakia . There are 304 congregations divided into five dioceses situated in Prague , Plzeň , Hradec Králové , Brno , and Olomouc in

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