Boskovštejn
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Znojmo | ||||
| Area : | 759 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 59 ' N , 15 ° 57' E | ||||
| Height: | 360 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 153 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 671 54 | ||||
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| Street: | Jevišovice - Pavlice | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jindřiška Křehnáčová (status: 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Boskovštejn 1 671 54 Hostim |
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| Municipality number: | 593818 | ||||
| Website : | www.boskovstejn.cz | ||||
Boskovštejn (German Boskowstein , also Boskenstein ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located eleven kilometers southeast of the town of Moravské Budějovice and belongs to the Okres Znojmo .
geography
Boskovštejn is located in the Jevišovka valley in the South Moravian Jevišovická pahorkatina .
Neighboring towns are Jiřice u Moravských Budějovic in the north, Jevišovice in the east, Bojanovice in the southeast, Vranovská Ves in the south, Pavlice in the south-west, Grešlové Mýto in the west and Blanné and Prokopov in the north-west.
history
Archaeological finds by František Vildomec and Jaroslav Palliardi showed that there was a Neolithic settlement on the site of the present-day location , which dates back to between 5000 and 2000 BC. Is dated. Other ceramic finds date from the Hallstatt and Iron Ages .
The first documentary evidence about Boskovštejn dates from 1586, when Friedrich von Náchod gave the place and festivals to his wife Katharine. The place name used to be Boskův Týn and derives from the owner of the Jevišovice estate , Boček von Kunstadt . The water festival formed the center of the village.
Until it was sold to Sigismund von Dietrichstein in 1619, Boskovštejn was owned by the Lords of Náchod. Dietrichstein was a Protestant and lost his property again after the battle of the White Mountain . In 1630 Georg von Náchod auf Hösting received the village including the festivals and brewery. He was followed by his son Leopold Ferdinand von Náchod. In 1659 the fortress, which was converted into a castle in 1615, was described as desolate and a year later Leopold Ferdinand sold Boskowstein together with Hösting to Zdenko Bohuslav Dubský from Třebomyslice.
Dubský joined Boskowstein, to which the stately tavern and four chalets on Prager Strasse , where a Groeschel toll had to be paid, to Hösting. In 1680 Zdenko Dubský signed Boskowstein to the owner of Jevišovice, Marshal Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches . In 1682 his feeble-minded son Johann Ludwig de Souches inherited Boskowstein. When he died in 1717, the property fell to his nephew, who sold it to Hofrat Joseph Graf von Gatterburg in 1720 .
In 1798, Count Anton Meraviglia acquired the Hösting lordship with the associated villages Blann , Boskowstein, Gröschlmaut , Irschitz , Prokopsdorf , Roskosch and Zerkowitz . At the end of the 18th century, the independent Boskowstein estate merged with the Hösting estate. In 1794 Boskowstein insisted on 32 houses in which 228 people lived. In 1837 the village had 404 inhabitants.
After the abolition of patrimonial Boskowstein became an independent municipality in 1848. In 1857 the Meraviglia family sold their estates in Hösting and Boskowstein to Prince Karl von und zu Liechtenstein . After Rudolf von und zu Liechtenstein's death, the goods were sold to Count Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff in 1908 . After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , the Boskowstein estate was parceled out between 1923 and 1926. In 1927 there were 440 inhabitants in the village, in 1938 there were 404.
In the 1980s, it was incorporated into Jevišovice, after the Velvet Revolution, Boskovštejn broke away in 1989 and formed its own municipality.
Attractions
- Fortress Boskovštejn, the four-tower structure was converted into a castle in 1615
- Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, northwest of the village on the way to Prokopov, built in 1742
- stone bridge over the Jevišovka
- Brick bell tower
- Memorial for the American pilot James Ralph Jones, who crashed in his Mustang P-51B-15NA on August 28, 1944 east of Boskovštejn on Stanůvka , erected in 1946