Kovač
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Jičín | ||||
| Area : | 772 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 24 ' N , 15 ° 28' E | ||||
| Height: | 265 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 137 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 506 01 | ||||
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| Street: | Konecchlumí - Vysoké Veselí | ||||
| Railway connection: | Ostroměř – Jičín | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Miloš Mádle (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Kovač 21 506 01 Jičín 1 |
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| Municipality number: | 548944 | ||||
| Website : | www.podchlumi.cz/kovac | ||||
Kovač (German Kowatsch ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 10 kilometers southeast of Jičín and belongs to the Okres Jičín .
geography
The street village of Kovač stretches along the Lužanka brook west of the Horschitz sandstone ridge in the Jičínská pahorkatina mountains within the North Bohemian Table Country . The railway line Hradec Králové - Jičín runs south of the village , where the station of the same name is located near Kovač.
Neighboring towns are Lužany and Kamenice in the north, Konecchlumí in the north-east, Podhorní Újezd a Vojice in the east, Sobčice and Kabáty in the south-east, Třtěnice in the south, Vrbice in the south-west, Butoves and Tuř in the west and Kacákova Lhota and Řeheč in the north-west.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1318 as the property of Ota von Byšice. In 1422 the village belonged to Jan Satlo from Kovač. The Satlo von Kovač family held the property for almost a century. In 1513 Matěj Libák von Radovesice bought the fortress and the place from her. The following owners were the families Bílský from Kařišov and Jilemnický from Újezdec and Kounice. In 1584 Jaroslav Smiřický bought Smiřice Kovač. Two years later, the Kovač estates were connected to the estates in Úlibice as the joint property of the brothers Zikmund, Jaroslav, Ladislav and Albrecht Smiřický .
After the battle of the White Mountain , the Smiřický's goods were confiscated and handed over to Albrecht von Waldstein . In 1636 Kovač passed to Rudolf von Tiefenbach as hereditary property . Tiefenbach, who remained without descendants, put Norbert von Sternberg in his will to inherit all possessions after the death of his widow. In 1710 Johann Joseph von Trauttmansdorff bought the Úlibice estate. The Counts of Trauttmansdorff united the dominions of Kumburk and Úlibice to form Kumburk-Úlibice.
In 1804 the Zlodějek mill was built south of the village, which milled especially for the residents of Kovač and Lužany. After the abolition of patrimonial Kováč , as the place was written at the time, became a municipality with 202 inhabitants in the Okres Jičín in 1850. In 1880 the place had reached its largest population with 361 residents. Karl von Trauttmansdorff had a farm built in 1895 and used the forests around Kovač as a hunting ground.
After the Second World War, the Counts of Trauttmansdorff were expropriated. The Zlodějek mill, whose last owner was František Špígl, fell into disrepair after 1945. Today only ruins remain. In 1961 it was incorporated into Konecchlumí, and since November 24, 1990, Kovač has again formed its own municipality.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Kovač.
Attractions
- Bell tower on the village square
- Sandstone statue of St. Isidore, on the village square, erected in 1737
- Sandstone statue of St. Charles Borromeo at the western exit to Butoves
- Baroque Lady Chapel from 1727, east of the village on a knoll on the way to Konecchlumí
- Baroque sandstone crucifix, southeast of Kovač on the way to Kabáty, erected in 1770
- Kovačská bažantnice nature reserve, north of the village