Dvůr Králové nad
Labem
[key], Ger. Königinhof, town, N central Czech
Republic, in Bohemia, on the Labe (Elbe) River. Among its manufactures are
linen textiles and beer. Founded in 1139 as a ducal palace, the town was
given by King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia to his queen, Elizabeth, in the late
13th cent. In 1817 several manuscripts purported to be early medieval Czech
poems were “discovered” at Dvůr Králové
nad Labem; one of the scholars who exposed the poems as patriotic forgeries
was Thomas G. Masaryk, later the chief founder of independent
Czechoslovakia.
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