Trebon offers more than enormous carps / Trebon nabizi vic nez obrovske kapry

Although the town of Trebon has only about 8,000 inhabitants it  has been quietly sitting on the map of Europe since the 12th century. Once the famous royal family of Rosenbergs bought the town in 1366 it started to experience its “Golden Age”, mostly thanks to its – now very famous – fish pond farming. Because of the town being geographically located in between vast marshes as well as Trebon’s own fortifications and deep moats, it bravely managed to fight off the Hussite army many, many times. The fish pond building started around the 16th century with its most famous personality being Jakub Krcin from Jelcany. Jakub built 2 major masterpieces: a pond called “Svet” (the World) for which he was criticized quite a bit at first because, from the structural point of view, it disturbed Trebon’s abilitity to defend itself; that’s why Jakub first named the pond the “Ingratitude” (later he probably realized he was overly dramatic and changed it to “Svet”). His second masterpice was the Rosenberg pond – the biggest pond in the Czech Republic. This man-made lake is genius not only for its size but also its structure: thanks to the inbuilt ditch called the New River the nearby river Luznice could drain an access of water in case of  floods.

Today Trebon is not only known for its beautiful countryside, the enourmous-sized carps, but also for its spa services. Here are some interesting things about Trebon that I bet you didn’t know about:

1. Trebon is a birth town to Karel Poborsky, a famous Czech soccer player
2. A mother of a famous Brasilian president Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliviera came from Trebon
3. It is a home to the Regent beer brewery founded in 1379, which makes it one of the oldest breweries in the world!!

CZ: I kdyz ma Trebon necelych 9 000 obyvatel, sedi tise na mape Evropy jiz od 12. stoleti. Mesto zacalo bohatnout a vzrustat od roku 1366, kdy bylo odkoupeno vyznamnymi bratry z Rozemberka. Ti posilili Trebon novymi zdenymi hradbami a prikopem, ktere spolu s okolnim bazinatym terenem vytvorilo z mesta nedobytnou pevnost. Bylo tomu take behem husitskych valek, kdy Trebon odolala Husistskym utokum, a to nejen jednou. Trebon je ale nejznamnejsi diky jejimu rybnikarstvi, ktere se zacalo rozvijet jiz  kolem 16. stoleti v cele s nejznamnejsi osobou trebonskeho rybnikarstvi – Jakuba Krcina z Jelcan. Jakub je tvurcem dvou veledil, a to nejdrive rybnikem Svet a pote Rozmberkem. Svet zprvu nesklidil moc slavy, ponevadz znacne narusil obranu mesta; proto se Jakub nastval a prejmenoval rybnik nakratko na jmeno Nevdek. Rozmberk byl genialni nejen ve sve velikosti (je dodnes nejvetsim rybnikem v CR), ale take diky vystavbe umeleho toku Nove Reky, ktera odvodnuje reku Luznici.

Dnes je Trebon znama nejen kvuli obrovskym kaprum, nadherne krajine, ale je take zname lazenske mesto. Ze jste ale nevedeli, ze Trebon je:

1. rodne mesto Karla Poborskeho, znameho fotbalisty
2. rodne mesto matky znameho brazilskeho prezidenta Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliviera
3. domov pivovaru Regent, ktery byl zalozen v r. 1379, coz ho dela jako jeden z nejstarich pivovaru na svete?

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Třeboň

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Třeboň

http://www.czech.cz/en/culture/most-beautiful-sights-and-places-of-interest/towns/other-remarkable-czech-towns/trebon/

http://rarita.webgarden.cz/zajimavosti-trebonska