The story
The first written mention of Cítoliby is from 1325, when it was a royal property. The owners often changed and included various lower noble families. From 1570 to 1630, the Cítoliby estate was a property of the Hruška family, who first expanded the estate significantly, but then part of it was confiscated from them as a result of the Battle of White Mountain. During the Thirty Years' War, Cítoliby was looted repeatedly. In 1698, the almost entire village burned down.
The last aristocratic owners of Cítoliby before the establishment of an independent municipality was the Schwarzenberg family, which acquired it in 1803. In 1873, Cítoliby was promoted to a market town.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cítoliby, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5
