{{For|the municipality in South Moravian Region|Zbraslav (Brno-Country District)}} {{morefootnotes|date=October 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Zbraslav | native_name = | other_name = | settlement_type = Municipal District of Prague<br />Cadastral Area of Prague <!-- images, nickname, motto --> | image_skyline = Zbraslav, Radotín a estakáda.jpg | image_caption = Zbraslav from the right bank of the Vltava | image_flag = Praha-Zbraslav flag.svg | image_shield = Praha-Zbraslav CoA.png | etymology = <!-- location --> | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Czech Republic | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Prague, the Capital City <!-- maps and coordinates --> | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Czech Republic Prague | pushpin_relief = | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Prague | coordinates = {{coord|49|58|30|N|14|23|16|E|type:city|display=title,inline}} | coordinates_footnotes = <!-- established --> | established_title = | established_date = <!-- area --> | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 9.85 <!-- elevation --> | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = <!-- population --> | population_as_of = 2021 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 10140 | population_density_km2 = auto <!-- time zone(s) --> | timezone1 = CET | utc_offset1 = +1 | timezone1_DST = CEST | utc_offset1_DST = +2 <!-- postal codes, area code --> | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 156 00 | area_code_type = | area_code = <!-- website, footnotes --> | website = http://www.mc-zbraslav.cz | footnotes = }} '''Zbraslav''' ({{IPA|cs|ˈzbraslaf}}; {{langx|de|Königsaal}}; Latin ''Aula Regia'') is a municipal district and cadastral area of Prague. The southernmost district of Prague, it lies on the Vltava River in the national administrative district of Prague 16.
The former independent municipality of Zbraslav is now one of two cadastral areas in the '''Prague-Zbraslav Municipal District'''. The other is Lahovice.
==History== {{stack|thumb|Zbraslav Château}} Zbraslav was founded in 1118. In the 13th century, the king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia founded here a very influential Cistercian abbey which was called ''Aula regia'' in Latin. The medieval monastery became the burial place of Bohemian kings. The Madonna of Zbraslav (a masterpiece of Bohemian Gothic fine art) was painted for this monastery in the 1340s.
In 1935, V. Bulgakov founded an important Russian museum here with collections dedicated to Russian emigrants, but the museum was closed and confiscated by the Communists before 1948.
In 1924, Žabovřesky and Záběhlice were joined to Zbraslav. In 1967, Zbraslav was promoted to a town. Zbraslav was merged into the city of Prague in 1974. It used to house the Chinese and Japanese collections of the National Gallery in Prague in the building of former monastery.
==Demographics== {{historical population |align=none|cols=1 |1869|2925 |1880|2868 |1890|3195 |1900|3286 |1910|3604 |1921|3727 |1930|4887 |1950|5534 |1961|6006 |1970|6226 |1980|7181 |1991|7530 |2001|7838 |2011|9995 |2021|10140 |source=Censuses<ref>{{cite web|title=Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Praha|url=https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20537734/130084150100.pdf/2df95051-142b-43e1-aa83-30662a31d3b6?version=1.2|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|pages=7–8|language=cs|date=2015-12-21|access-date=25 October 2023|archive-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817003539/https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20537734/130084150100.pdf/2df95051-142b-43e1-aa83-30662a31d3b6?version=1.2|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Population Census 2021: Population by sex|url=https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf?page=vystup-objekt&pvo=SLD21001-MC-OB&z=T&f=TABULKA&skupId=4429&katalog=33515&pvo=SLD21001-MC-OB&pvokc=43&pvoch=554782#w=|work=Public Database|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|date=2021-03-27}}</ref>}}
==Notable people== *Petr Žitavský (1270–1339), abbot of the Zbraslav Monastery, politician and author of the ''Zbraslav Chronicle'' *Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), novelist; lived here from 1921 *Jaromír Vejvoda (1902–1988), songwriter; his home is now a restaurant called Škoda Lásky with paraphernalia relating to him
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.zbraslav.cz Unofficial Zbraslav page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722045043/http://zbraslav.cz/ |date=22 July 2013 }} (in Czech) *[http://www.mc-zbraslav.cz Official page of the Prague-Zbraslav Municipal District] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528064028/http://www.mc-zbraslav.cz/ |date=28 May 2019 }} *[http://www.zbraslavhistorie.info Zbraslav and history] (in Czech)
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