Lažany (Skuteč)

Lazany
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Pardubický kraj
District :	Chrudim
Municipality :	Skuteč
Area :	179 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 50 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '11 "  N , 16 ° 1' 4"  E
Height:	440  m nm
Residents :	106 (2011)
Postal code :	539 74
License plate :	E.
traffic
Street:	Skuteč - Předhradí
Railway connection:	Svitavy – Žďárec u Skutče

Church of St. Wenceslaus

Main road

Lažany (German Laschan ) is a district of the city of Skuteč in the Czech Republic . It is located two kilometers southeast of Skuteč and belongs to the Okres Chrudim .

geography

Lažany is located in the Skutečská pahorkatina ( Skutscher hill country ). State road II / 354 between Předhradí leads through the village ; The railway line Svitavy – Žďárec u Skutče runs south . In the northeast rises the Heráně (453 m nm), west of the Humperky ( Humberg , 469 m nm). The Anenský potok rises northeast of the village . To the east lies the Rychmburk Castle , to the southwest of the Skuteč airfield (LKSK).

Neighboring towns are Štěpánov and Zbožnov in the north, Lhota u Skutče , Zadní Borek, Zhoř , Oborský Mlyn and Borek in the Northeast, Předhradí the east, Ochozka, Kutrin , Ochoz and Lesany the southeast, Daletice and Dolívka in the south, Žďárec u Skutče in the southwest, V Lázních in the west and Skuteč and Kolonie in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds prove the settlement of the area since the Neolithic .

The village of Lažany arose on the Chrudimer Steig, a medieval trade route that led to Litomyšl on the Strenitzer Landessteig ( Trstenická stezka ). Lažany was first mentioned in a document in 1349 as the property of the Richenburg . The oldest news about the church comes from 1350, when the parish of Lažany was assigned to the newly established Litomyšl diocese . The parish church served as a burial place for the owners of the Richenburg. During the Thirty Years' War the parish of Lažany became extinct and the church became a branch church of the Skuch parish.

In 1835 the rustic village of Laschan or Lažan in the Chrudim district consisted of 27 houses in which 157 people lived. The Catholic parish was Skutsch, the Protestants were assigned to the pastorate Krauna . Until the middle of the 19th century, Laschan remained subject to the Richenburg rule.

After the abolition of patrimonial Lažany formed from 1849 a district of the municipality Rychmburk in the judicial district of Skuch . From 1868 the village belonged to the political district Hohenmauth . In 1869 Lažany had 147 inhabitants and consisted of 31 houses. In 1897 the Polička – Skutsch railway was built. In 1900 there were 164 people living in Lažany, in 1910 there were 178. Lažany broke away from Rychmburk in 1925 and formed its own municipality. In 1930 Lažany had 153 inhabitants. In 1949 the community was assigned to the newly formed Okres Hlinsko, and since 1961 it has belonged to Okres Chrudim. On January 1, 1976 it was incorporated into Skuteč. In the 2001 census, there were 106 people in the 47 houses in Lažany.

Community structure

The district forms the cadastral district Lažany u Skutče.

Attractions

• Church of St. Wenzel, the former Gothic church can be traced back to 1350 and was the burial place of the owners of the Richenburg. Inside there are seven grave tablets of the Counts of Waldstein from the 16th century. The coats of arms of the Trčka from Lípa and Berka from Dubá families are painted on the walls . The church is surrounded by a fortified walled cemetery; the baroque cemetery portal was built in 1799.
• Karst spring Malhošťská vyvěračka , north of the village in the valley of the Anenský potok

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 516

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/679488/Lazany-u-Skutce
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 247
3. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce/079481/Lazany
4. ↑ https://www.skutec.cz/mesto/historie/pamatky/kostel-sv-vaclava-lazany/