THE 25TH IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MANEUVERS WILL TAKE PLACE ON 21 MAY IN HNĚVČEVES (18/05/2016)

This clash took place not far from the timbered cottage No. 15. 'The Austrian and Prussian patrols met each other near the Kadeřávek family (about 100 steps from the church), and one Austrian rifleman was shot, and also one Prussian, and this happened before the eyes of the locals. Then a complete flight began and only 10 men with the priest and about the same number of women remained in Hněvčeves. Dwellings, chambers, cellars and stables remained open, for word had spread that wherever the Prussians found something locked, they raged badly there.' This is how the event was recorded by the parish priest Josef Just in the memorial book of the Hněvčeves parish office.
Programme:
9:00 – 11:30 Assembly of units and training of individual military units on the grounds behind the rectory.
12:30 – 13:30 Joint rehearsal of battle demonstrations.
13:30 – 14:30 Break - Presentation of the equipment and armament of the armies of 1866 to visitors.
15:00 – 15:30 Battle demonstration on the theme 'The first fallen soldier in the Battle of Hradec Králové 1866'. This demonstration will
take place at the authentic site of this event – the death of field rifleman František Kozák from the Austrian 14th
Field Rifle Battalion, near the church on the village green in Hněvčeves.
15:45 Commemorative act at the monument to František Kozák.
16:00 Mass in the local church for all victims of the 1866 war.
17:00 End of the 25th Imperial and Royal Maneuvers

Hradec Králové, May 2016, Radek Balcárek, e-mail: info@koniggratz150.eu, tel.: 608 216 662