Louka (Vrbatův Kostelec)

Louka
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Pardubický kraj
District :	Chrudim
Municipality :	Vrbatův Kostelec
Area :	196 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 51 '  N , 15 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '48 "  N , 15 ° 55' 20"  E
Height:	395  m nm
Residents :	34 (2011)
Postal code :	538 51
License plate :	E.
traffic
Street:	Vrbatův Kostelec - Prosetín Hlinsko - Chrast

Statue of St. John of Nepomuk

Town view from the west

Louka is a district of the municipality of Vrbatův Kostelec in the Czech Republic . It is located six kilometers west of Skuteč and belongs to the Okres Chrudim .

geography

Louka is located on the Havlovický creek in the Iron Mountains ( Železné hory ). State roads II / 337 between Skuteč and Nasavrky and II / 355 between Hlinsko and Chrast cross in Louka . To the northwest of the village are the Petráň and Hořička ponds.

Neighboring towns are Hlína , Silnice and Horka in the north, Vrbatův Kostelec in the Northeast, Skutíčko , V Tyne and Leštinka the east, Kvasín and Otáňka the southeast, Dřevešský Dvůr, Dřeveš and Vrbětice in the south, Ležáky and Habroveč in the southwest, Dubová and Havlovice in the West and Smrček-Na sádkách, Na Obírce and Smrček in the north-west.

history

The first written mention of Louka comes from 1545.

In 1835, the village of Lauka in the Chrudim district consisted of 15 houses in which 72 people lived. The parish was Kosteletz . Until the middle of the 19th century, Lauka remained subject to Nassaberg rule.

After the abolition of patrimonial Louka formed from 1849 with the district Habroveč and the hamlet Ležáky a municipality in the judicial district Nassaberg . From 1868 the municipality belonged to the political district of Chrudim . In 1869 Louka had 91 inhabitants. In 1900 there were 86 people living in the village, in 1910 there were 95. In 1930 Louka had 86 inhabitants. During the time of the German occupation, the Gestapo found a refuge for Czechoslovak paratroopers after the assassination attempt on Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in Ležáky. On June 24, 1942, the hamlet was occupied and burned down by 500 men from the SS, Feldgendarmerie and Schutzpolizei under the leadership of Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Clages. A year later the ruins were razed to the ground. In 1949 the community Louka was assigned to the newly formed Okres Hlinsko, since 1961 it has belonged again to the Okres Chrudim. In 1964 it was incorporated into Vrbatův Kostelec . In the 2001 census, Louka's 16 houses were home to 36 people.

Local division

The cadastral district Louka u Vrbatova Kostelce includes the districts Louka and Habroveč .

Attractions

• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
• Educational trail “Traces of the Ležáky Tragedy” (Naučná stezka “Stopy ležácké tragédie”)

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 518

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/785857/Louka-u-Vrbatova-Kostelce
2. ↑ http://www.vrbatuvkostelec.cz/
3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 271