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History of Ceska Lipa


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The current territory of the city was permanently settled around the 13th century. The first written reference of settlement comes from year 1263 and is included in the Doksany Prior's purchase roll. The history of the city is associated with Ronovci ancestry's name of Chvala ze Žitavy, who founded the Lipý Castle, and mainly his grandson Jindřich z Lipé (1270–1329), a significant royal aristocrat. As rolls have not been preserved, it is not clear who exactly of the ancestry founded the castle and settlement around. Thus the Lipý Castle became their another fortified seat in the North Bohemia on the route of trade ways that time. As mentioned above, there were a Slavonic colony of that name near the castle, later renamed to Stará Lípa (a part of the city today). There is a reference of Arnold, said to come from Stará Lípa, who used to be a burgess in Kravaře (a small town today). Historians derive from the reference of Stará Lípa that the Lipý Castle and the colony were established around. Jindřich z Lipé moved to Moravia in 1319 after he had sold the castle with its surroundings to his cousin Hynek Berka. According to other news, in 1327 the mentioned Hynek Berka z Dobé, also a member of the ancestry of Ronovci and rich Prague burgrave, was the lord of Lipá and wide surroundings. When he died in 1348, his son of the same name took the grip and after his death the second of sons Jinřich succeeded him. Then his nephew Hynek Berka z Dubé reigned the area. The eldest city charter, which he issued on March 23, 1381, documents that discretions were granted to the city of Lipá and that it was he who contributed the most to the boom of the city and the castle bearing the same name.

City walls were constructed in the beginning of the 14th century as well as a perish church of St. Paul and Peter, which was destroyed when fires affected the city in 1787. It was canonized by Peter of Aspelt, the Mayence archbishop, in 1312 in the presence of Jan
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