Trhová Kamenice is a market town in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.
Administrative division Trhová Kamenice consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
Trhová Kamenice (766) Hluboká (15) Kameničky (30) Petrkov 3.díl (6) Polom (0) Rohozná (94) Zubří (8)
Etymology Kamenice is a former name of the Chrudimka River, which was transferred to the settlement. Around 1500, after the settlement obtained the right to hold markets (trhy in Czech), it began to be called Trhová Kamenice.
Geography
Trhová Kamenice is located about south of Chrudim and south of Pardubice. It lies in the Iron Mountains and in the eponymous protected landscape area. The highest point is the hill Zuberský vrch at above sea level.
Trhová Kamenice is situated on the Chrudimka River. The municipal territory is rich in fishponds. The largest pond in Trhová Kamenice and in the entire Iron Mountains is Rohozenský velký rybník, which forms half of the large Strádovka Nature Reserve.
History The first written mention of this area is in a donation deed from 1242. A settlement was founded here probably by the monastery in Vilémov. At the end of the 14th century, the ironworks were founded and the production of charcoal started. In the 15th century, the economical development occurred and in 1499, Trhová Kamenice became a market town.
On 8 May 1945, when Trhová Kamenice was under Nazi occupation, several Nazi troops were passing through the market town from Chrudim back to Nazi Germany and massacred 14 people while finding resistance partisans.
Demographics
Transport The I/37 road, which connects Hradec Králové and Pardubice with the D1 motorway, runs through the market town.
Sights The main landmark of Trhová Kamenice is the Church of Saints Philip and James. It was built in the Baroque style in 1737–1747. The interior is decorated with Neoclassical frescoes from the 1790s.
Notable people František Šmahel (1934–2025), historian
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