Kněž (Tis)

Kněž
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Havlíčkův Brod
Municipality :	Tis
Area :	384 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '9 "  N , 15 ° 29' 9"  E
Height:	545  m nm
Residents :	68 (2011)
Postal code :	582 91
License plate :	J
traffic
Street:	Habry - Tis

Church of St. Bartholomew

Houses on the village square

cross

Kněž (German Kniesch ) is a district of the municipality of Tis in the Czech Republic . It is four kilometers south of Habry and belongs to the Okres Havlíčkův Brod .

geography

Kněž is located in the Hornosázavská pahorkatina ( hill country on the upper Sázava ). In the south rise the U kapličky or Strážnice (581 m nm) and the Vrch (555 m nm), southwest of the Na Homoli (551 m nm). The Zbožský creek rises on the western edge of the village. The state road I / 38 runs two kilometers to the east between Habry and Havlíčkův Brod .

Neighboring towns are Dolní Mlýn and Habry in the north, Novy Dvur, Proseč and Jiříkov in the Northeast, Kámen , Skuhrov and Boudův Mlyn in the southeast, Tis , Komárov and Malčín in the south, Hejtice, Josefodol, Kunemil and Lesní Dvůr in the southwest, Zboží the west and Sázavka and Bačkov in the northwest.

history

Kněž was probably built in the 13th century by the Wilmzell Benedictine monastery on Haberner Steig, whose old route led from Habry via Babina, Waldorf ( Lesní Dvůr ), Kněž, Tis, Lučice and Olešnice into the Sázava Valley . The U kapličky hill served as a guard post to protect the trade route from robbers.

Based on the construction, the construction of the church is dated to the second quarter of the 13th century. When the as Rundling village built around the engaging together with the cemetery almost the entire village square church was built is not known. The oldest news about the parish church of St. Bartholomäus, of which Habry belonged at the time, comes from 1362. According to tradition, there was a monastery on the east side of the village square.

The first written mention of the village of Knyez was in 1375 as the property of the Benedictine monastery Wilmzell. After the destruction of the monastery in 1421 by the Hussites, secular lords seized the extensive monastery property. Knyess later belonged to the town of Habry together with 24 other villages. The spelling Kněž has been documented since 1629 . The parish, to whose districts also Tis, Lučice, Kámen and Waldorf or Valdhof belonged, became extinct during the Thirty Years' War.

After the death of Jan Rudolf Trčka von Lípa in 1634 the imperial general Johann Reinhard von Walmerode acquired the rule of Habry on Nymburk . He showed little interest in the new property, but couldn't find a buyer. The Rychtář of Tis also exercised lower jurisdiction over the villages of Kněž, Kámen, Proseč, Miřátky and Jiříkov. In 1666 Johanna Eusebia Barbara Zdiarsky von Zdiar bought the Habry estate from the underage Walmerod heirs. The Countess Caretto di Millesimo, who was by marriage, sold Habry in 1681 to Johann Sebastian von Pötting and Persing on Žáky ; Tieß with Kněž and Lučice was separated as land-use goods. In 1762 Johann Rudolph von Pötting and Persing acquired the Tieß estate and rejoined it under the Habern rulership . In 1787 the village was called Kníže or Kněž . In 1802 Adolph von Pötting and Persing sold the Habern rulership with the associated estates Tieß and Zboží to Johann von Badenthal, from whom his son Joseph inherited them in 1814.

In 1840, the village of Kniesch or Kněž, west of Wiener Strasse in the Caslauer Kreis , consisted of 26 houses in which 211 people, including a Jewish family, lived. There was a branch church of St. Bartholomew. The single-shift Neuhof sheep farm lay apart. The parish was Habern. Kniesch remained subordinate to the Habern rulership until the middle of the 19th century .

After the abolition of patrimonial Kněž formed a municipality in the judicial district of Habern from 1849 . From 1868 the place belonged to the Časlau district . Franz von Puthon, who had acquired the manor of Habern with Tieß and Zboží in 1862, sold it in 1869 to Franz Altgraf von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Hainspach on Světlá . In 1869 Kněž had 191 inhabitants and consisted of 27 houses. The Habern Manorial Archives suffered great losses when the Lipnice Castle burned in 1869 . After the death of Franz von Salm-Reifferscheidt, the manor fell to his sister Johanna verw. from Thun and Hohenstein to Klösterle and Žehušice , in 1892 her son Joseph Oswald von Thun-Hohenstein-Salm-Reifferscheidt inherited the large estate. In 1900 there were 196 people living in Kněž, in 1910 there were 220. The volunteer fire brigade Kněž was founded in 1928. In 1930 Kněž had 181 inhabitants and consisted of 35 houses. In 1949 the municipality was assigned to the Okres Chotěboř, since the territorial reform of 1960 it has belonged to the Okres Havlíčkův Brod . In 1961 it was incorporated into Tis . In the 2001 census, 69 people lived in the 36 houses in the village.

Local division

The one-layer Nový Dvůr ( Neuhof ) belongs to Kněž .

The district forms a cadastral district.

Attractions

• Early Gothic Church of St. Bartholomew, it was probably made in the second quarter of the 13th century. In 1362 it was mentioned as a parish church. The church was rebuilt several times; the 32 m high steeple was added between 1827 and 1833.
• Cast iron cross in the village square
• A Lady Chapel has been located on U kapličky since the end of the 18th century, but it has not been preserved.
• Rozvalda fountain north of the village. According to legend, after the execution of an innocent man, the ground opened up and a healing spring was created.

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 558

Web links

• History of Tis and Kněž

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/767042/Knez
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 11: Caslauer Kreis. Ehrlich, Prague 1843, p. 231.
3. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/767042/Knez