Vysočany

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| name = Vysočany

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| settlement_type = Administrative District of Prague

| image_skyline = Prague Vysocany Town Hall.jpg

| image_caption = Prague 9 town hall in Vysočany

| image_shield = Praha 9 - Znak.jpg

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Czech Republic

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| subdivision_type2 = Region

| subdivision_name2 = Prague

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| image_map = Praha KÚ Vysočany.png

| map_caption = Location of Vysočany in Prague

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| established_date = 1902

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| area_total_km2 = 6.07

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| population_as_of = 2021

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Results of the 2021 Census - Open data|language=cs|url=https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/vysledky-scitani-2021-otevrena-data|work=Public Database|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|date=2021-03-27}}

| population_total = 17465

| population_density_km2 = auto

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| timezone1 = CET

| utc_offset1 = +1

| timezone1_DST = CEST

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| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 190 00

| website = http://www.praha9.cz

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Vysočany (German: Wissotschan) is a part of Prague in the Prague 9 administrative district (partly in Prague 3), Czech Republic. It lays in the eastern part of Prague around the valley with Rokytka river.History

• The first recorded information about Vysočany is from 1115 when the duke Vladislav I. gave Vysočany vineyards to Kladruby monastery.
• In 1896 - Emil Kolben - important Czech engineer and entrepreneur (former employee and friend of Thomas Edison) founded its factory which later became the famous ČKD. This strongly influenced Vysočany as a heavily industrial district of Prague.
• In the year 1902 - the emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria awarded Vysočany with the title of city and the right to use its coat of arms.
• 1911 - Vysočany Town Hall was built
• In 1922 - Vysočany became part of Prague.
• In 1939 - after the Nazi invasion of Prague. The majority of industrial production had to be refocused on military production to support Nazi-Germany war
• In 1942 - several families from Vysočany were involved in the Operation Anthropoid (assassination of Reinhard Heydrich)
• In 1945 - during the end of World War II the district was heavily damaged during the Bombing of Prague. The targets were factories which were forced to produce military material.
• In 1968 - after the invasion of Russian armies - there was a special convention of the Czechoslovak Communist Party held in Vysočany which strongly condemned the invasion of the Soviet armies.
• Since 1990s - the new era after Velvet Revolution saw Vysočany transforming from heavily industrial district to new modern residential part of Prague. Big part of construction is focused on the "brown-fields" after former factories.