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New Prague (/ ˈ p r eɪ ɡ / PRAYG) [4] is a city in Scott and Le Sueur counties in the state of Minnesota.The population was 8,162 at the 2020 census. [5] Although the northern portion of the City is located within the Metropolitan Council geographic area, the City of New Prague, through special legislation (M.S. 473.121, Subd. 2), is outside the Metropolitan Council review area/approval ...
Reconstruction of the lower part of Wenceslas Square confirmed the already existing pedestrian zone, uniting the surfaces and adding new alleys. A reconstruction of the Wenceslas Square has been underway since 2020. The lower part was completed in 2023. Construction of the new upper part (from Vodičkova street) is to begin in June 2024. It ...
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
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The Church of St. Wenceslaus is a Catholic church in New Prague, Minnesota, United States, constructed in 1907.The church is flanked by a 1908 rectory and a 1914 parochial school, and the three-building complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the Czech American settlement of south-central Minnesota.
In 1498, after the reconstruction the church was reconsecrated. The church's vaulting was designed by Hans Spiess. Two remarkable stained glasses are dated 1502–1505. The church was revaulted in 1575 by a boldly designed dome with a net of the pseudo-Gothic ribs, that was covered with the new roof. The vault was designed by Bonifác Wolmut. [2]
During the reconstruction the chapel on the south side of the tower was removed and the tower roofing modified. In 1909, a commemorative plaque by Josef Mařatka of the Brokoff family, Jan and his sons Michael and Ferdinand , who are buried in the church, was placed on the north wall of the presbytery.
After the founding of New Town in 1348 by king Charles IV, St. Wenceslas’ Church became one of the New Town´s parish churches. The visitation protocols of the Archdeacon of Prague Paul of Janovice from 1379-1382 state that the church had four altars. There was already a vaulted choir with a two bays of cross vault and a pentagonal ending.