Leštinka
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Pardubický kraj | ||||
| District : | Chrudim | ||||
| Area : | 160 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 51 ' N , 15 ° 58' E | ||||
| Height: | 384 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 156 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 539 73 | ||||
| License plate : | E. | ||||
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| Street: | Skuteč - Nasavrky | ||||
| Railway connection: | Havlíčkův Brod – Pardubice | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Luboš Kropáček (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Leštinka 30 539 73 Skuteč |
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| Municipality number: | 571709 | ||||
| Website : | www.obeclestinka.cz | ||||
Leštinka (German Leschtinka ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located three kilometers west of Skuteč and belongs to the Okres Chrudim .
geography
Leštinka is located on the right side of the Žejbro brook in the Skutečská pahorkatina ( Skutscher hill country ). State road II / 337 runs on the northern outskirts between Skuteč and Nasavrky , and south of the Havlíčkův Brod – Pardubice railway line . The Kostelecká hůra (432 m nm) rises to the north, the Horky to the southeast and the Zárubka (426 m nm) to the west. The geological composition of the area consists of granite and chalky clay. There are numerous flooded quarries around Leštinka, the Zvěřinov quarry is used as bathing water and the Družstvo quarry is used as a diving school; The only operating quarry is the Zárubka quarry.
Neighboring towns are Skala, Chacholice and Obora in the north, Hroubovice , Pribylov and Skutíčko in the Northeast, Skuteč, Porodnice and Kantýna the east, Pondělíčkův Les and Na Obci the southeast, Dolní Prosetín and Klínek in the south, Cejřov in the southwest, Zárubka and Louka in the West as well as Hlína , V Týně and Vrbatův Kostelec in the north-west.
history
The first documentary mention of the village took place on June 8, 1392 in the country table , when Smil Flaška von Pardubitz handed over the Richenburg with the associated 62 villages to Otto von Bergow and Boček II from Podiebrad . The village is named after Žejbro, who was originally called Leština .
In 1835, the in consisted Chrudim district located rustic village Lesch Tinka or Lesstinka of 31 houses, where 198 people lived. There was a mill in the village. The parish was Skutsch . The main source of income was the work in the quarries. Until the middle of the 19th century Leschtinka remained subject to the Richenburg rule.
After the abolition of patrimonial Leštinka formed from 1849 a district of the municipality Skutíčko in the judicial district of Skuch . From 1868 the village belonged to the political district Hohenmauth . In 1869 Leštinka had 249 inhabitants. In 1871 the Deutschbrod – Pardubitz railway was opened. In the 1870s Leštinka broke away from Skutíčko and formed its own community. In 1880 the Žejbro flood caused severe damage. Before the Second World War, almost 600 people were employed in the quarries. In August 1953 the Žejbro caused another severe flood. In 1900 257 people lived in the village, in 1910 there were 302. In 1930 Leštinka had 299 inhabitants. In 1949 the community was assigned to the newly formed Okres Hlinsko, and since 1961 it has belonged to Okres Chrudim. In the 2001 census, 146 people lived in the 51 houses in Leštinka.
Community structure
No districts are designated for the municipality of Leštinka. The residential areas Mikšův Les, Na Obci, Pondělíčkův Les, Porodnice and Vila belong to Leštinka.
Attractions
- Cast iron cross on a granite base, created in 1833, restored in 1931
- Syringe house, in the roof turret is the village bell from 1832
- Summer oak at the mill, the 31 m high tree has a trunk circumference of 5.10 m.
- Former railway viaduct near Vila
- Educational trail to the granite quarries in the Horky (Naučná stezka “Žulová stezka Horkami”)
- Quarry lake Zvěřinov in the Horky
- Sandstone block with Drápka cave, on the slope of Kostelecká hůra
Sons and daughters of the church
- František Hromádko (1831-1911), writer
literature
- Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 512
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/571709/Lestinka
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 247