Dolní Hbity

Dolní Hbity
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Středočeský kraj
District :	Příbram
Area :	2568.5891 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 39 ' N , 14 ° 10' E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '25 " N , 14 ° 10' 9" E
Height:	399 m nm
Residents :	865 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	262 62 - 262 63
License plate :	S.
traffic
Street:	Višňová - Solenice
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	8th
administration
Mayor :	Jan Michálek (as of 2015)
Address:	Dolní Hbity 55 ; 262 62 Dolní Hbity
Municipality number:	540129
Website :	www.dolni-hbity.cz

Church of John the Baptist

View from the north to Dolní Hbity

Plague cross and chestnut on the former cemetery

Dolní Hbity (German Unter Hbit , also Unter Chbit or Unter Hbyt ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located twelve kilometers southeast of the city center of Příbram and belongs to the Okres Příbram .

geography

Dolní Hbity is located at the transition from the Dobříšská pahorkatina ( Dobrian hill country ) to the Příbramská pahorkatina ( Příbram hill country ) in the valley of the Jelenecký potok immediately before its confluence with the Vápenický potok. To the north rise the Černé vrchy (485 m nm), in the northeast the Chlum (484 m nm) and the Bohatá hora (480 m nm), to the east the Chotinská (480 m nm) and the Čepel (502 m nm), in the south the Bukovec (562 m nm) and to the northwest the Paseky (500 m nm). The Sázka pond is located on the north-western edge of the village. Road II / 118 runs south of Dolní Hbity between Příbram and Kamýk nad Vltavou .

Neighboring towns are Chaloupky, Skalice, Bělohrad and Pánkovka in the north, Obory and Na Závisti in the northeast, Smrčí, Luhy and Chvojná in the east, Kaliště, U Šimánků, Zduchovice , Bukovec and U Plavců in the southeast, Nepřejov and Horní Líšnice in the south Žlíbky and Horní Hbity in the southwest, Jablonná in the west and Dubenec and Jelence in the northwest.

history

The village, situated on the old salt road from Solenice via Vrškamýk to Prague , was probably built in the 12th century. The first written mention of Tba came in 1325, when King John of Luxembourg sold the Kamýk forests with the hunting rights and the villages located therein to Hermann von Miličín. The place was later called Tybity , in Hussite times as Tbity and then as Hibitt .

According to tradition, King Charles IV is said to have lost his way in the area on a hunt and in 1368 to thank the Church of St. John and gave the place the name Chybit . However, this occurrence cannot be documented. The special bond of Charles IV with Dolní Hbity is documented by the personal appointment of three pastors during his term of office, which is unique in Bohemian history. It is believed that the surrounding forests were among Karl's preferred hunting areas and that he selected men with exceptional education and culture for the pastor who he also stayed with during his stays.

During the Hussite Wars , the church was burned down by the Hussites . In the Thirty Years' War Dolní Hbity was set on fire and destroyed. During the war the village was sold to various nobles and eventually divided. Until 1714 the village belonged to the Podbrder district, after which it became part of the Berauner district . After the parish had expired for a long time, a pastor was reinstated in Dolní Hbity in 1782 by the religious fund.

In 1846, Unter-Hbit or Dolegšj Hbyti consisted of 35 houses with 217 inhabitants, including a Protestant family. 22 houses belonged to the Smolotel estate and 13 houses to the Milin estate . Under the patronage of the religious fund, the parish church of St. John the Baptist, the parish and the school. Unter-Hbit was the parish for Ober-Hbit ( Horní Hbity ), Jablona , Jelenetz ( Jelence ), Katzin ( Káciň ), Kalischt ( Kaliště ), Lischnitz ( Líšnice ), Luh ( Luhy ), Nepřegow ( Nepřejov ), Třti ( Třtí ) , Wapenitz , Wietrow ( Větrov ) and Smolotel. Until the middle of the 19th century, Unter-Hbit remained partially subordinate to the Milin and Smolotel estates.

After the abolition of patrimonial joined Dolní Hbyty / sub Hbyt and Horni Hbyty / Upper Hbyt from 1850 to the municipality Hbyty / Hbyt together in the judicial district Příbram. From 1868 the municipality belonged to the Příbram District . In the 1870s the municipality Hbyty was separated into the independent municipalities Dolní Hbyty and Horní Hbyty . Dolní Hbity has been used as a place name since the beginning of the 20th century. In 1932, 225 people lived in Dolní Hbity. At the beginning of 1976 Nepřejov (with Horní Líšnice and Kaliště) were incorporated. The incorporation of Jelence took place on April 1, 1976, that of Káciň and Luhy (with Třtí) on January 1, 1980. Since 2009 the municipality has had a coat of arms and a banner.

Community structure

The municipality Dolní Hbity consists of the districts Dolní Hbity ( Unter Hbit ), Horní Líšnice ( Ober Lischnitz ), Jelence ( Jellenetz ), Káciň ( Katzeni , also Katzin ), Kaliště ( Kalischt ), Luhy ( Luh , 1939–45: Luch ) , Nepřejov ( Nepschejow ) and Třtí ( Trzti , 1939–45: Rohr ). Basic settlement units are Chvojná, Dolní Hbity, Horní Líšnice, Jelence, Káciň, Luhy, Nepřejov and Třtí. Dolní Hbity also includes the settlements Dolní Třtí and Žlíbky as well as the layers Brodce, Horní Třtí, Jalovčí, Lipiny, Podkáciňský Mlýn, Smrčí and U Šimánků.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Dolní Hbity, Jelence, Káciň, Luhy, Nepřejov and Třtí.

Attractions

Neo-Romanesque Church of John the Baptist. The original building can be traced back to 1368, according to tradition it was founded by Charles IV, who personally appointed three pastors during his tenure. After the devastation by the Hussites , the church was restored in 1597; the parish became extinct, only in 1782 a pastor was reinstated in Dolní Hbity by the religious fund. The old church was demolished in the 1860s due to its disrepair and inadequacy. On April 24, 1875, the new church building, designed by the architect Josef Mocker , was consecrated by Archbishop Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg . On January 26, 1968, lightning struck the 36 m high church tower, causing part of the roof to catch fire and damaging the organ and wooden ceilings. The tower was restored in the same year. The church was renovated in the 1990s. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 1998.
Plague cross and horse chestnut on the former cemetery opposite the church, the 23 m high tree with a trunk circumference of 3.60 m was placed under protection in 1981.
Statue of St. John of Nepomuk . It was made in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem in 1903 and originally stood, surrounded by a wooden fence, directly in the village square of Dolní Hbity. In 1942 the monument was restored and placed on a stone base. As the location of the statue increased in 1969 as part of the regulation of the Jelenecký potok, its base was reduced by one and a half meters.
Memorial stone for the fallen of World War I on the village square, unveiled in 1936. Before that, two marble plaques with the names of the war victims were placed in the church in 1920
Jablonná natural monument - mokřad. The swamp area around a nameless pond between Jablonná and Dolní Hbity was declared a protected area in 2011 on an area of 13 ha to protect a population of the fire-bellied toad . Crested newts , pond newts , water frogs , common toads and garlic toads also live there .