Bělá (Luže)

Bělá
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Pardubický kraj
District :	Chrudim
Municipality :	Luže
Area :	393 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 54 '  N , 16 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '35 "  N , 16 ° 0' 2"  E
Height:	305  m nm
Residents :	215 (2011)
Postal code :	538 54
License plate :	E.
traffic
Street:	Luže - Hroubovice

Place view

crossroads

Bělá (German Biela ) is a district of the city of Luže in the Czech Republic . It is located two kilometers west of Luže and belongs to the Okres Chrudim .

geography

Bělá extends on the brook Anenský potok in the Štěpánovská stupňovina ( Stiepanower stepland or seam mountains ). State road II / 356 runs north of the village between Chrast and Luže. In the northeast rises the Dobrkovský kopec (338 m nm), southwest of the Hroubovický kopec (351 m nm).

Neighboring towns are Dobrkov and Lozice in the north, Radim and Horní Radim in the northeast, Luže, Chlumek and Zdislav in the east, Doly , Lhota u Skutče and Zbožnov in the southeast, Štěpánov and Nová Ves in the south, Hroubovice and Chacholice in the southwest, Podhora in the west as well Chrašice and Rosice in the northwest.

history

The first mention of Bieley occurred in 1392 in the Landtafel as Smil Flaška of Pardubitz the Richenburg with the associated 62 villages to Otto von Bergow and Boček II. Of Podiebrad handed. In the 15th century, most of the village belonged to the Richenburg rulership, since 1456 Biele was under the Rychta in Radim . Later, most of the village belonged to the Rossitz rule ; other shares were subject to the Slepotice lordship and the Richenburg and Koschumberg domains . In 1784 a school was opened in Biela , to which the children from Raubowitz and Dobrkow also attended . At that time the village consisted of 33 houses and had 450 inhabitants.

In 1835, the village Biela or Běla in the Chrudim district consisted of 78 houses in which 438 people lived. The Koschumberger part comprised 31 houses with 180 inhabitants as well as the school, the Rossitz part 25 houses with 130 inhabitants; 22 houses on Dominikalgrund belonged to the Richenberger part - including an emphyteutized dairy and a mill - with 128 inhabitants. The parish was Lusche . Until the middle of the 19th century, Biela was divided between three dominions.

After the abolition of patrimonial Bělá formed from 1849 a municipality in the judicial district of Skuch . From 1868 the community belonged to the political district Hohenmauth . In 1869 Bělá had 422 inhabitants and consisted of 80 houses. In 1879 a new school building was built. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1892. In 1900 431 people lived in Bělá, in 1921 there were 542. The main sources of income were agriculture and work in the quarries near Skuteč ; the women worked for embroidery factories in Luže. In the 1920s the village was electrified. In 1930 Bělá had 516 inhabitants. On May 9, 1945 there was a shooting near Bělá between a small partisan unit with passing German troops, in which seven men were killed in the village. In 1960 the community was assigned to the Okres Chrudim. On July 1, 1985, it was incorporated into Luže. In the 2001 census, there were 211 people in the 98 houses in Bělá. The school was closed in 2003, and in 2013 the school building was converted into a senior citizens' residence.

Local division

The district of Bělá forms a cadastral district.

Attractions

• Sandstone cross at the former school, it was erected in 1862 in place of a cross from 1818. In 2013 the cross was badly damaged during a storm when branches of the mighty linden trees fell off; after the trees had been felled, the restoration took place.
• Community grave and memorial stone for the fallen on May 9, 1945
• Wooden lookout tower Jahůdka, between Bělá and Radim, built in 2008
• Hroubovice Jewish cemetery, southwest of Bělá

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 512

Web links

• Description of the district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/601594/Bela
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, pp. 97, 116, 254
3. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce/001597/Bela
4. ↑ http://rozhledny.webzdarma.cz/jahudka.htm