Nepomuk

Nepomuk is a small town of about 3,500 people in the Plzeň-South District of the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic, in the Blatná Uplands about 30 kilometres south of Plzeň, with the Mihovka Stream running through it. It was founded in the first half of the 12th century at the latest. The first written mention, as Pomuk, dates from 1144, when a Cistercian monastery was built nearby, and that monastery was destroyed by the Hussite army in 1420. Pomuk merged with neighbouring Přesanice in 1384 and took the name Nepomuk, and it was promoted to a town in 1413, a status Emperor Charles VI confirmed in 1730. It is best known as the birthplace, around 1345, of Saint John of Nepomuk, and it became an important Baroque pilgrimage site. Its climate is humid continental.