Statue of a knight stands surmounts a Renaissance fountain in Tábor, a town in South Bohemia, Czechia. The fountain, sculpted by stonemason Martin of Susice, is in Žižka Square (Žižkovo námestí), Tábor’s central square, named after Jan Žižka of Trocnov, a Hussite leader who founded Tábor in 1420. The knight, who is known as Koudela or Koudelka and was probably a captain among Hussite religious reformers, holds aloft a banner symbolising the market privileges of Tábor.
Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia: knight, holding aloft a banner symbolising the market privileges of Tábor, on a fountain in the town’s main square, Žižka Square (Žižkovo náměstí). Tábor lies 88 km (55 miles) south of Prague. It has numerous Renaissance buildings and associations with the Hussite Christian movement. Hussites broke with Rome in using Czech liturgy and administering Holy Communion, both bread and wine, to the laity. Hussites took their name from Jan Hus, a religious reformer who was martyred in 1416. Huss’s followers included a radical party whose main centre was at Usti, a small town to which they gave the name of the mountain where Christ was transfigured, Tabor. In 1420, the leader of the ‘Taborites’, Jan Žižka of Trocnov, founded the present Tábor, 4 km (2 1/2 miles) to the north of the former Tábor. The main square in Tábor is named after Jan Žižka. The Taborite movement died out in the 1430s, but the town which Žižka had founded lived on as a royal town after 1437. The castle was later converted into a brewery.
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Location: Žižka Square, Žižkovo námestí, Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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