Hrubá Skála

Hrubá Skála
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Liberecký kraj
District :	Semily
Area :	1383.4428 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 33 ' N , 15 ° 13' E Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '46 " N , 15 ° 12' 33" E
Height:	287 m nm
Residents :	606 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	511 01-512 63
License plate :	L.
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	8th
administration
Mayor :	Josef Novotný (as of 2007)
Address:	Doubravice 37 ; 511 01 Hrubá Skála
Municipality number:	577146

Hrubá Skála (German Groß Skal , also Großskal ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located six kilometers southeast of Turnov on the European route 442 in the Bohemian Paradise and belongs to the Okres Semily .

history

The place name is derived from the location of the former Skála Castle , which was located on a rock and was first mentioned in 1353 when it was in the possession of the Hynek von Waldstein . It was the seat of the same basic rule Skala, which since the 18th century as a major Skal ( Hrubá Skála ), to distinguish the near located small Skal ( Mala Skala was called). At the beginning of the 16th century it consisted of 54 villages and belonged to the Lords of Boskowitz . In 1515 Sigmund Smiřický von Smiřice acquired the rule. The Smiřický von Smiřice enlarged the territory, modernized agriculture and founded manufactories . This made Groß Skal one of the largest Bohemian rulers at the beginning of the 17th century. After the possessions of the Smiřický von Smiřice were confiscated after the Battle of the White Mountain , Groß Skal fell back to the Lords of Waldstein. During the Thirty Years' War the rule was devastated by Saxon and imperial troops in 1636. Franz Adam von Waldstein sold the Groß Skal estate to Johann Anton Lexa von Aehrenthal in 1821.

The population of the village of Hrubá Skála remained insignificant. It forms the starting point for the Groß Skaler rock town to the west of the village .

Community structure

The municipality of Hrubá Skála consists of the districts Bohuslav ( Bohuslaw ), Borek, Doubravice ( Doubrawitz ), Hnanice ( Hnanitz ), Hrubá Skála ( Groß Skal ), Krčkovice ( Kretschkowitz ), Rokytnice ( Rokitnitz ) and Želejov ( Schellejow ). Basic settlement units are Bohuslav, Borek, Hnanice, Hrubá Skála and Krčkovice.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Hnanice pod Troskami and Hrubá Skála.

Attractions

Hrubá Skála Castle

Symbolic mountaineering cemetery (in memory of the victims of the Andean expedition to Peru in 1970)

Sons and daughters of the church

Alois Lexa von Ährenthal (1854–1912), Austro-Hungarian politician

literature

Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 178.

Web links

Virtual show

Commons : Hrubá Skála - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.uir.cz/obec/577146/Hruba-Skala

[2] Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

[3] ttp://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/577146/Obec-Hruba-Skala

[4] ttp://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/577146/Obec-Hruba-Skala

[5] ttp://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/577146/Obec-Hruba-Skala