Hovězí

Hovězí
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Zlínský kraj
District :	Vsetín
Area :	2212 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 18 '  N , 18 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '10 "  N , 18 ° 3' 38"  E
Height:	385  m nm
Residents :	2,409 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	756 01
License plate :	Z
traffic
Street:	Ústí - Karolinka
Railway connection:	Vsetín – Velké Karlovice
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Antonín Koňařík (as of 2010)
Address:	Hovězí 2 756 01 Hovězí
Municipality number:	542768
Website :	www.obec-hovezi.cz

Hovězí (German Howiessy , 1939-1945 Howies ) is a municipality in the Moravian Wallachia in the Czech Republic . It is located seven kilometers southeast of Vsetín and belongs to the Okres Vsetín .

geography

Hovězí is located at the western foot of the Javorníky at the transition to the Vsetínské vrchy in the CHKO Beskydy nature park. The village extends to the left of the Vsetínská Bečva opposite the confluence of the Hovízky along the Hořanský creek. To the northeast rises the Ochmelov (733 m), in the southeast the Hrabůvka (566 m), south the Tanečnice (734 m), Filka (769 m), Žáry (762 m) and Smoz (618 m), in the southwest the Jahodný ( 609 m) and Galov (544 m) as well as northwest of the Lysný (654 m). The Vsetín – Velké Karlovice railway runs through Hovězí .

Neighboring towns are Dolní Mlýn, Suška and Hovízky in the north, Za Dílem and Škrádny in the north-east, Bradovský Mlýn and Huslenky in the east, U Kneblů, U Martinců, Uherská, U Suřanů and Tisové in the south-east, Stříbrník, Podm, Jahansko in the south Vaculů and Leskovec in the southwest, Ústí and Janová in the west and Studně, Kadějov and Křenov in the northwest.

history

Hovězí was founded in the 14th century during the colonization of the Vsetín rule and was first mentioned in 1505. In the 16th century, the Javorníky forests were settled from Hovězí to the Hungarian border through the creation of numerous clearings. The village of Zděchov arose from this . At the same time the upper valley of the Vsetínská Bečva was opened up, where the villages Huslenky and Nový Hrozenkov arose. In order to protect the country from enemy incursions, the residents of the village secured the border. In the years 1584 and 1585, incursions from Hungary were successfully repelled. During the attack in November 1585, the intruders were surrounded on five sides and 120 of them were captured and taken to Vsetín. The first evidence of the Howezy fortress comes from the Fabricius map of Moravia. During the Thirty Years War, the residents of Hovězí took part in the Wallachian Uprising. When it was suppressed, the village was partially burned down in 1644 and seven residents were executed. In 1663 the Turks invaded Hovězí. After Georg Illésházy had to sell the Vsetín rule in 1681 due to excessive indebtedness, the Hovězí estate was separated from Vsetín on March 14, 1681 and sold to Margarethe Franziska von Schneidau. Hovězí immediately sold this to Melchior Ledenický from Ledenice on Liptál for 21,000 guilders . In 1696 he appointed his nephews Karl and Franz Podstatský von Prusinowitz as heirs. Since 1688 there is evidence of a Hovězí a wooden church. Karl Podstatský von Prusinowitz acquired his brother's share for 9,000 guilders in 1697 and was the sole owner of the Hovězí estate until 1718. He had the fortress converted into a castle, which he designated as his seat. In 1708 the Kuruc attacked the village. In the map by Johann Christoph Müller from 1716 the place is called Howiezy and the castle is drawn. In 1718 Karl Podstatský sold the estate to Mikuláš Count Illésházy for 44,000 guilders after lengthy disputes over the Polana pasture from Tvarožný potok with the municipality of Zděchov and moved to his relatives in Litenčice . As a result, Hovězí was reconnected to the Vsetín rule and the Kaštýl chateau served as the seat of the lordly officials. This changed under Count Štěpán Illésházy, who made Kaštýl the seat of his lover Theresia von Gatterburg and who in 1827 gave her a lifelong use. Since the marriage between Illésházy and Theresia Barkóczy had remained childless, the four children of Theresia von Gatterburg inherited the rule of Vsetín in 1831. Sidonie and Moritz came from Theresa's marriage to Karl von Scharff, Maria and Theresa from their relationship with Štěpán Illésházy. Sidonie transferred her share to her husband Josef von Wachtler, who shortly thereafter bought the other three shares. After the outbreak of cholera , Wachtler had a hospital with 24 beds set up in Kaštýl Castle in 1831.

After the abolition of patrimonial Hovězí / Howiessy formed from 1850 a municipality in the district administration Valašské Meziříčí . In the middle of the 19th century, Michael Thonet acquired the Hovězí manor. In 1890 Hovězí consisted of 557 houses and had 3328 inhabitants, all of whom, with the exception of six Germans, belonged to the Czech ethnic group. Since 1910 Hovězí has ​​belonged to the Vsetín Region. The construction of a community school for Hovězí and Zděchov led to a dispute over the location in the 1930s. After the decision to build a school in the centrally located settlement of Údolí Huslenky, two and a half kilometers east of Hovězí, was made in 1939, schooling after the Second World War led to a break in the community, as a result of which the eastern (upper) part of the settlement became new in 1949 community Huslenky seceded.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Hovězí. Hovězí consists of the settlements Hořansko, Hovězí ( Howiessy ), Hovízky ( Howieczik ) and Stříbrník as well as numerous desert areas ( Paseken ).

Surname

The translation of the name of the municipality is "beef", which is also referred to by the cow in the municipality's coat of arms. However, the origin of the name is not clear. One interpretation says that there was a large enclosure for cattle on the village ring, which was called "Hú-víz" (German: fresh water) by roaming cattle herders of Romanian or Hungarian origin, hence the German name "Howis" - "Howies" - “Howiessy” and finally “Hovězí” in Czech. This assumption is generally rejected because the shepherds apparently came later. More likely, but not proven, is the origin of the German "Hofwiese" - "Howies" etc.

Attractions

• Church of St. Maria Magdalena, built 1733–1734 in place of a wooden predecessor building in the neo-Romanesque style as a parish and burial church for Halenkov , Hovězí, Hrozenkov and Zděchov , it was given its present form during the renovation by Gustav Meretta in the years 1882–1890.
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, on the village green
• Baroque statue group Kalvarie, created at the end of the 18th century, on the street
• Stříbrník natural monument, southwest of the settlement of the same name
• Castle Kaštýl ( Kastill ), the single-storey fortress was built in the second half of the 17th century and under the Podstatský von Prusinowitz family it was expanded to become a mansion. Štěpán Illésházy later left it to his lover, Countess Theresia von Gatterburg. In 1831 a cholera hospital was established in Kaštýl. In the second half of the 19th century taught Michael Thonet a Raspelei (in Kaštýl rašplovna a) as a branch plant of its furniture factories. In 1899 the community rented the castle for use as a gendarmerie station. After they were moved to Zděchov , apartments were set up in Kaštýl. In 1936 the castle and the associated land came into the ownership of the municipality as part of the land reform. A German gendarmerie station was housed in the building between 1939 and 1945. In the second half of the 20th century it served, among other things, as the seat of the municipal office, school meals, kindergarten and for residential purposes. In 1997 the municipality sold the dilapidated building. After a renovation, the building will again be a dominant feature of the townscape.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
2. ↑ Genealogical pages and chronicle of the Hromada family, online at: www.hromada.webz.cz/kronika , Czech, accessed on September 8, 2010