Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman, National cultural monument in Stadice, Czech Republic.
The Royal field with the monument to Přemysl, the Ploughman is a national cultural monument in Stadice. It consists of a profiled stone base topped by a cast-iron plough, with two cast-iron reliefs on the front and rear showing Přemysl meeting Libuše's delegation and his arrival at Vyšehrad.
Count Ervín of Nostitz had the monument built in 1841 to a design by architect F. Staumann. Its cast-iron reliefs were cast in 1840 at Count Vrbna's foundry in Komárov, based on models by Josef Max. The site was declared a national cultural monument in 1962.
The two cast-iron reliefs on the base, cast in 1840 at Count Vrbna's foundry in Komárov, depict Přemysl meeting Libuše's delegation at the plough and his reception at Vyšehrad by Libuše, Kazi and Teta. The Czech inscription on the left reads that Přemysl was called here from the plough to the duchy in 1841.
The monument stands west of Stadice in the Bílina valley, reached via road 258 toward Hliňany, between the Trmice–Bílina railway and the D8 motorway. It lies within a park, so visitors can walk around the stone base and view the iron reliefs on both the front and rear faces.
The dimensions of the Royal Field were used in the Middle Ages as the basis of the Czech field measure. The plough on the monument is made of cast iron, and the two reliefs on the base were cast in 1840 at Count Vrbna's foundry in Komárov u Hořovic from designs by Josef Max.
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