Planá nad Lužnicí

Planá nad Lužnicí (German: Plan an der Lainsitz) is a town in the South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It is situated on the river Lužnice about 6 km south of Tábor and 11 km north of Soběslav. Highway D3 is being built east of the town. The place was first mentioned in a letter of bishop Tobiáš of Bechyně from 1288–1289, when the town was part of the Prague episcopacy. From the time Oldřich of Ústí came to power until 1547 Planá was a dependency of the newly established Hussite town of Tábor. Then the town was bought by William of Rosenberg, who had a wooden bridge over the Lužnice river built. The estate was inherited by Peter Vok of rosenberg, at the end of the 17th century it was taken over by the Sternbergs and later by the House...