Český Krumlov is a small town located in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic and counts 13.141 inhabitants as estimated per 01/01/2017. The word “Český” translates into “Czech” or “Bohemian” and simply refers to the location of the city, opposed to another city in the Czech Republic, called Moravský Krumlov. The name itself derives from the natural topography: The german name “Krumme Au” could be translated to “crooked meadow” and refers to the location of the city on and around an island formed by tight bend of the Vltava river.

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History:

The oldest settlements date back to the Older Stone Age, between 70,000 and 50,000 B.C. Mass settlements were noted in the Bronze Age, around 1,500 B.C., Celtic settlements in the Younger Iron Age, around 400 B.C., and finally Slavonic settlements, which date back to the 6th century A.D. 

 

The Vltava River always presented a natural transportation route into the area and since the early Middle Ages it was used as a popular trade route as well. In the 9th Century the domain where Krumlov is located today originally belonged to the noble Czech family of Slavníkovci, which were slaughtered by their rival family named Přemyslovci in 995 - naturally Krumlov belonged to them afterwards. Following their Principal of internal colonization they gave the doman to a family of their line, named Vítkovci, pronounced Witigonen in German. 

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Legend tells that the roots of the Vítkovci lay in Ancient Rome, where the fathers of the royal Ursini family line lived on a small mountain near Rome. After the city was plundered in 546 the family left Rome. One of their members, Vítek, traveled north, crossed the Danube and settled in Southern Bohemia with his wife and child. He started a new family line there and acquired large domains over time, giving them to his 5 sons after his death. Additionally, each son got a coat of arms including the Five Petaled Rose.

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History suggests another version of the story: Vítek came to the Bohemian Region in the 12th, and not in the 6th Century

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