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35 Year's Burch of the Imperial Protector -2 King Wenceslas I. fights against Frederick the contentious of Austria, when he rebels against Emperor Frederick II. — Later, wenceslaus I. becomes co-guardian of the German King Konrad IV. — Invasion of the Mongols and Tatars; the latter devastate Moravia. 1278 The extinction of the Babenbergs in Austria (1246) leads under King The imperial dream Pschemist Ottokar IL. (1253 - 1278) to the extension of the Pschemislid kingdom of the Bölmen kingdom to its greatest extent at all. Still as Margrave of Moravia he acquires Austria (he is married to Margarete of Austria in his first marriage), as King Styria, Carinthia, Krain, the Windish Mark, Friuli, the free imperial city of Eger. Twice he moves to Prussia and founds there the city of Königsberg. — In the empire reigns ; Interregnum. Pschemisl Ottokar IL. The electors, however, elect the Count Rudolf of Habsburg. This drives the mighty Pschemislid king to a riot. In 1276 he submits himself to Vienna in peace, renounces all new acquisitions and marries his children Wenceslas and Agnes with the children of the Habsburger Gutta 1, and Rudolf. Two years later (1278) he loses his life in the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedespeigen on the March field and for his kingship the supremacy in Central Europe. — Margrave Otto of Brandenburg becomes guardian of the underage King Wenceslas II. 2081 After the expiry of the guardianly government Wenzel II becomes king. Deuscher The solemn coronation (1297) is carried out by the German archbishop of Minnesang Mainz. Wenceslas is quite the same under the impression of German art. Renowned representatives of the dentschen Spätminnesanges (Ulrich von Eschen- hach, Reimar von Zweter, Heinrich von Freiberg) gather at his court, which is a German court. In 1298 he received from the German Emperor Eger and the Eger-land. 1300 by marriage Poland, 1301 by the extinction of the Arpads Hungary. 1306 After only one year of government — Hungary and the eger-lands of the perished — Wenceslas II's son. Wenzel IIL, murdered in Olmütz Pschemisliden, when he prepared a war for the preservation of Poland. With it the male line of the Pschemislids is extinct; in their last sexes German blood predominated. 13th century The Pshemislid kings necessarily integrate themselves into the German life space. German spirit does not pervade state politics and law colonization less than art and culture. Domestically, these kings favor German colonization to the highest extent. You yourself call the German settlers and monks into the Lard. In increasing numbers new cities arise (Prague-Kleinseite, Aussig, Brüx, Kaaden, Klattau. Chrudim, Znaim etc.). Their constitution is closely bound up with the general development of the German city system. In legal matters eutscheiden Magdeburg and Nüruberg at last instance. The power of the Germans also has a pre-participative effect on the Czech flatmates. 1100 After four years as interim governor who plunges the country into confusion, Johann marries Wenceslas II's sister Elisabeth with Johann von Luxem- von Luxembog burg. to a son of the German emperor Heinrich VIl. Johann acquires the Upper Lusatia, in 1322 Eger and the Egerland (by pledge), almost all Silesian duchies; on the other hand, he gives up the Polish king. title. 134t becomes Prague archdiocese of Johann seibst spends most of the time outside the country with emboldened and knightly way of life; in 1346 he falls (blinded) at Crecy in Kampl sa the side of Fraukreich against England. 1346-1378 The reign of Charles IV — Bohemia's "Golden Age". Charles IV became a German emperor and gave the empire a permanent main town in Preg. In 1348 he founded in Prague the first High School of the Empire, which beats the deuish first denche University. In 356 he edited the "Gldene Reich Bulle", an imperial law that regulates the Wah! of dentschen Kaise-s. It strengthens Bohemia's position within the empire to a large extent. However, it speaks of the property of this space as an integral part of the Reicbe: no doubt. The King of Bohemia becomes the first of the four worldly electors and maintains the e-amt of the cupbearer. Karl constantly works on the extension of the house power of Selzian. In Prague, a new spirit, which is not only limited to the capital and the country, but also has an effect on the entire German habitat. At the head of the Reichskanzlei is the Sudeten-German Johann von Neumarkt. In the U customers, the German takes on an ever-growing space over Latin and becomes an important source of the common written language. — The emperor and king develops a generous building activity, has the Prague castle rebuilt, o:dnets the new building of the cathedral as well as numerous churches, creates at Karlstein Castle a dignified place for the Reichskleinodien. The German architect Peter Parler takes over the cathedral building. erects the Charles Bridge and a number of characteristic church and monastic hautes. He is a sculptor. His ideas penetrate into the country and into the southern German region. Under his direction, the cathedral building hut acquires the priority position between Vienna and Regenshurg. German sculptors and painters find the opportunity to create richly. — Charles IV makes Bohemia the heartland of the empire, bringing the empire and Bohemian kingdom into balance in his person. In the country, whose backbone is a free German bourgeoisie and peasantry, there is peace and well-being (even if there are social tensions). 1400 Johanaes von Saaz creates with the "Ackermann from Bohemia" the most important literary work of German humanism. Charlemagne IV's son and successor Wenceslas IV. is the opposite of his father; he is an enemy of Germany, he has no connection with the Reichs- 1409 thought. Already during his lifetime he is shocked by the electors of the emperor. In the country itself destructive forces work from above and from below. Around the fanatical personality of the Magister Johannes Hus piles enormous explosives. Hus ignites a movement. which initially turns against ecclesiastical maladministration, but soon leaves the telegious and social ground. According to the form it is about the Lord's Supper under both figures, in reality a Czech-national, anti-German storm rises. Wenceslas IV stands on the side of the Hussites. The first attack is directed against the German university. By the Kuttenberg decree, Wenzel decrees that the Germans should be deprived of their rights. They move in the majority to Leipzig, where a new German university is to be built. 1415 At the Council of Constance, Johannes Hus is condemned as a heretic in 1419 and burned. The outbreak of the Hussite revolution (first act: the fall of the window from the Nenstadt town hall). Wenze IV dies. The public violence Hussite storm in the country becomes Hussitic. The Hussites break into the Sudeten area under terror, fire and pillage. to Moravia and far into the German Empire. It is a revolution against the emperor, the empire, the imperial idea. Sigismund, Wenceslas's brother and legal successor, sends several cruciate armies against the Husiti, which, however, continue to be subject. Finally, the Hussites split into the moderate Utraquists and the radical Taborites.