Libchavy

Libchavy
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Pardubický kraj
District :	Ústí nad Orlicí
Area :	2211 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 0 ′  N , 16 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 19 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 37 ″  E
Height:	245  m nm
Residents :	1,758 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	561 16
License plate :	E.
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Jaroslav Boštík (as of 2007)
Address:	Dolní Libchavy 93 561 16 Libchavy
Municipality number:	580147
Website :	www.libchavy.cz

New school in Dolní Libchavy

Libchavy (German Lichwe , also Lichwa , Lecha and 1227 na Lubhaue and German Lichwe called) is a municipality in Okres Ústí nad Orlicí in the Czech Republic. It belongs to the Pardubice region and is located one kilometer north of the district town of Ústí nad Orlicí ( Wild Sword ).

geography

Libchavy extends over four kilometers in a north-south direction in the valley of the creek Libchavský potok ( Lichwer creek ) from České Libchavy to its confluence with the Silent Eagle . The municipality had about 1,608 inhabitants in 2006 and is the fourth largest municipality in Okres Ústí nad Orlicí with 2.214 km².

history

Libchavy was first mentioned in writing in 1227 as Wald Na Lubhaue ( on the Lubhau ). The actual colonization of the place along the Lichwe brook was organized between 1265 and 1285 by the locator ("settlement agent") Wilhelm von Dürnholz . There is evidence that he recruited East Franconia as settlers, brought them to the spot and allocated their hooves to them. From 1360 to the 17th century Libchavy was officially called Deutsch-Lichwe - probably because of the many German-speaking settlers . Over the centuries the owners of the place changed. In addition to a temporary reversion to the Crown and the Bohemian Chamber, the following are recorded as owners: around 1360 Semil from Brandeis , Burgrave of Landsberg , around 1405 Messrs Slepky , around 1418 Johann Caglow , after whom a mill was named, and the Bohemian one from 1502 Noble family von Bubna , around 1623 Albrecht von Wallenstein and a short time later Maria Magdalena von Lobkowitz , who was married to Jan Rudolf Trčka von Lípa . Libchaby sold it in 1624 to Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein , who linked it with his Landskron -Landsberg rule .

Community structure

Libchavy consists of the districts Dolní Libchavy and Horní Libchavy.

The three settlements Dolní Libchavy (Lower Lichwe), Prostřední Libchavy (Middle Lichwe) and Horní Libchavy (Upper Lichwe) emerged from the original German Lichwe , which today all belong to Libchavy (in contrast to the nearby and northern village of České Libchavy (Bohemian Lichwe)). Libchavy also includes the hamlet Darilek , located northwest of Horní Libchavy, and the hamlet of Cakle and Cagel ( Zackel ) near Dolní Libchavy .

Division and amalgamation of the village

The noble family von Bubna divided the original German Lichwe into Nieder Lichwe and Ober Lichwe, whereby the details of the division vary depending on the sources. On the one hand, Nikolaus von Bubna is said to have divided the long place between his three sons. In other sources, Albrecht von Bubna and Johann von Bubna are named as the authors of the division around 1588 . Mittel Lichwe was created in 1591 from the sale of the northern part of Nieder Lichwe from Johann von Bubna to Hermann von Bubna on Doudleb-Joleni . The district of Darilek is based on a Meierhof , which Albrecht von Bubna had originally laid out and which was divided into 14 parcels in 1793. The division of the three places Upper Lichwe, Middle Lichwe and Lower Lichwe was only reversed on April 30, 1976 through a territorial reform. Up to the present day the amalgamation has not established itself in common usage. The names Dolní Libchavy , Prostřední Libchavy and Horní Libchavy are still used.

Attractions

The Lichwer Church was built in 1802 on the site of a wooden church built in 1585 and burned down in 1799. The high altar of the church was erected in 1936, it completely covers a wall-filling altar painting with St. Nicholas from 1890, which goes back to a foundation of Prince Johann von Liechtenstein. In both world wars, the church bells had to be delivered. After the Second World War, the parish in Libchavy was given up and the community looked after from Wildenschwert, and no new bells were procured. Major renovations were not carried out during the communist era. It was not until 1999 that the church received a ring consisting of three bells again.

literature

• Franz JC Gauglitz: home district Landskron. Home book for the city and district of Landskron. Compiled and edited. Zluhan, Bietigheim 1978.
• Hans Kaplan: Lichwe… an independent parish church in the outermost tip of the Schönhengstgau. In: Schönhengster Jahrbuch. Vol. 48, 2002, ISSN  0487-6598 , pp. 92-96.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

Web links

Commons : Libchavy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipality website (multilingual)