High above the Elbe

Vysoká nad Labem - a village established deep in the past on the left bank of the Elbe south of the confluence of the Elbe and Orlica. The first written mention is preserved from the year 1073 in connection with the Opatovice Monastery, which for several centuries by decree of King Vratislav II. the village belonged to. The village also played an important role in the Hussite wars and is the place of the betrothal of Emperor Francis Joseph I and the Empress of Austria. In 1535 she was…