Polna

Few towns in the Vysočina Region have a past as closely tied to the Polná Affair of 1899 as Polná. The case against Leopold Hilsner, accused of murder, became one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most notorious antisemitic trials; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk publicly challenged its assumptions. The Šlapanka flows through this historic town in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. Polná Castle and the Church of the Assumption shape its old centre, while the former Jewish quarter, synagogue and cemetery recall a once substantial Jewish community. See how Polná belongs to the wider Vysočina landscape by browsing webcams nearby.

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