Břežany (desert)
Břežany is a desert in the area of the municipality Volárna in Okres Kolín , Czech Republic .
location
The Břežany desert is located west of Volárna, halfway to Karolín .
history
The first documentary mention of Břežany took place in 1273 together with Chrášťany , Ovčáry and Heindrichov in a protection document from Pope Gregory X. for the villages of the Strahov monastery . Břežany was one of the largest and richest villages in the monastery; at the beginning of the 15th century, Břežany's income was the second highest. In the Strahov land register from 1410, a monastery courtyard, a mill, a tavern, 26 farmers and several chalupners are listed for Břežany . The village comprised 25 hubs of arable land and the Březská huť forest. When at the beginning of the Hussite Wars a Hungarian mercenary army of King Sigismund devastated the area north of Kolín at the end of 1420 , Břežany went extinct.
In 1436 King Sigismund gave the desert village to Bedřich von Strážnice as part of the Kolín rule. Hynko von Münsterberg , who had acquired the rule in 1474 from his brother Viktorin , had the Bačovský rybník fish pond built in the corridors of the extinct village around 1475 . With an extension of 635 yoke 752 square fathoms , the shallow pond was one of the largest in area in the Kolín domain. In 1475, the Bačovský náhon ( Sánská Bačovka ) ditch was dug to feed water from the Cidlina near Sány . In the 18th century the Bačovský rybník was completely silted up and its ground was overgrown with sour grass, so that its further use was unprofitable. In the second half of the 18th century the pond was gradually drained and the banks used as pasture. In 1778 the village of Freudeneck (Volárna) was laid out on the former pond site. Today the Karolín farm and the Bačovský les forest are located on the site of the pond.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '27.1 " N , 15 ° 14' 4.6" E