Jestřebí (Rájec-Jestřebí)

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Jestřebí
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Jestřebí (Rájec-Jestřebí) (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihomoravský kraj
District : Blansko
Municipality : Rájec-Jestřebí
Area : 332 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '39 "  N , 16 ° 37' 2"  E
Height: 290  m nm
Residents : 918 (March 1, 2001)
Postal code : 679 02
License plate : B.
traffic
Street: Černá Hora - Sloup
Railway connection: Česká Třebová – Brno

Jestřebí (German Jestreb , formerly Gestrzeby ) is a district of Rájec-Jestřebí in the Czech Republic . It is located six kilometers north of Blansko and belongs to the Okres Blansko .

geography

Jestřebí extends in the Boskowitz furrow on the lower reaches of the Býkovka river to its mouth in the Svitava . To the north rises the Hora (383 m), in the south the Na Vápnech (361 m) and Jedle (561 m) and to the west the Bukovice (500 m). The Česká Třebová – Brno runs through the village ; the Rájec-Jestřebí railway station is located in Jestřebí. In addition, the road II / 377 from Černá Hora to Sloup runs through Jestřebí.

Neighboring towns are Klemov, Hamr and Doubravice nad Svitavou in the north, Holešín in the northeast, Rájec in the east, Ráječko in the southeast, Spešov in the south, Závist and Malá Lhota in the southwest, Černá Hora in the west and Bořitov in the northwest.

history

The first written mention of the village belonging to the Bořitov estate took place in 1371. The owner at that time was Ulrich von Boskowitz . The owners changed in quick succession, to them belonged the families von Drahanowitz, Černohorský von Boskowitz, von Kunstadt , von Cimburk and von Hostěhrádek. In 1590 the castle captain of Rájec , Václav Šubíř von Chobyně, bought the village. A little later Jestřebí was attached to the Černá Hora estate . This fell to Charles I of Liechtenstein in 1597 after the death of his father-in-law Jan Schembera Černohorský von Boskowitz . During the Thirty Years War the Swedes looted the village in 1642. After the House of Liechtenstein , the Auersperg family acquired rule in 1719 . In 1796 the barons Schluga von Rastenfeld followed, from 1830 the barons von Geislern and from 1842 the barons von Türkheim. The village was always parish to Porstendorf . In 1839 a branch school was established in Jestřebí, before lessons took place in Porstendorf. In 1844, teaching in Jestřebí was stopped again and the children were sent back to the Porstendorfer school.

After the abolition of patrimonial Jestřebí formed from 1850 a municipality in the district administration Boskovice . In 1854 the municipality was assigned to the judicial district of Blansko . After the dissolution of Okres Boskovice, Jestřebí came to Okres Blansko in 1948 . On June 12, 1960 Jestřebí and Rájec nad Svitavou were united to the town of Rájec-Jestřebí . In 1991 the place had 949 inhabitants. In 2001 there were 290 houses and 918 inhabitants in Jestřebí.

Attractions

  • Chapel of St. Anna, erected in 1867 instead of a wooden bell tower from 1813. The bell, cast in 1813, was transported away in 1942 to be melted down as war metal and a replacement bell was hung in its place in 1944. After the old bell was found intact after the end of World War II, it was consecrated again and the replacement bell has been used as a death bell ever since.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/738891/Jestrebi