Mezouň

Mezouň
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Středočeský kraj
District :	Beroun
Area :	305.6086 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 0 '  N , 14 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '15 "  N , 14 ° 12' 51"  E
Height:	380  m nm
Residents :	571 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	267 18
License plate :	S.
traffic
Street:	Nučice - Vysoký Újezd
Railway connection:	Beroun – Rudná u Prahy
Next international airport :	Prague airport
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Hana Braunová (as of 2013)
Address:	Mezouň 72 267 18 Karlštejn
Municipality number:	531537
Website :	www.mezoun.cz
Location of Mezouň in the Beroun district

View from Vysoký Újezd ​​to Mezouň

crossroads

Mezouň (German Mesaun ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is four kilometers south of Rudná and belongs to the Okres Beroun .

geography

Mezouň is located on the Prague plateau ( Pražská plošina ) on a plateau in the headwaters of the Krahulovský potok and Mezouňský potok. The Hačka (425 m) rises to the west and the Blýskavka (427 m) to the northwest. The Beroun – Rudná u Prahy railway runs northwest of the village, and the nearest railway station is Nučice zastávka .

Neighboring towns are Drahelčice and Krahulov in the north, Letnik and Nučice in the Northeast, Tachlovice , Prostřední Mlyn and Dolni Mlyn in the east, Chýnice , Třebotov and Kuchařík the southeast, Kuchař, Trněný Újezd and Vysoký Újezd in the south, Cernidla, Jánská and Loděnice in the southwest, Chrustenice in the west and Nenačovice , V Hlubokém and Blýskavka in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds indicate that there was a settlement on today's village square during the Neolithic Age . An early burial site was found near the holiday home area.

Mezůnov was first mentioned in writing in 1025 when the Insula Benedictine monastery acquired the farm. The place was later referred to as Mesanie and since the 14th century as Mesaun or Mezouň . In August 1420 the Hussites first burned down the Cistercian monastery Königsaal and on August 10, 1420 began the siege and shelling of the monastery Insula, which they captured and burned down four days later. Some of the Benedictines were able to flee to the St. Johann provost house. In 1421 King Sigismund confiscated all of the goods of the destroyed Insula Monastery and assigned them to the royal lordship of Karlstein . The Mezouň farmers did not have to do any labor in the distant Karlstejn Castle, but high taxes were levied on them. The resulting financial burdens, which were significantly higher than in the surrounding ruled villages, led to the emigration of part of the population.

In 1436, Emperor Sigismund pledged the Mezouň and Dobříč goods to Hospřid von Hostivice for loyal service . Mezouň later came back to the Karlstein domain. The repeated looting during the Thirty Years' War resulted in the majority of the farmers giving up their farms and ceding their property to the manorial court. The old rains were plowed up in 1636. After the Thirty Years' War, the manorial farm prospered, a fish pond was created in Mezouň and a Kretscham was built. In the 18th century, the lordship leased the remote farm. Due to the mismanagement of some tenants, it increasingly deteriorated and was dissolved and parceled out again in 1781.

In 1846 the village of Mezaun in the Berauner district consisted of 44 houses with 282 inhabitants, including two Jewish families. There was a contribution floor and an inn in the village, the former Meierhof was emphyteutized. The eight houses in Letnik ( Letník ) and the Dominikalwirtschaft U Hagj ( V Háji ) were situated apart . The parish was Tachlowitz . Until the middle of the 19th century, the village remained subordinate to the kk Tafel rulership of Karlstein.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Mezouň / Mezaun 1850 a municipality in the judicial district of Beroun. In the same year a deposit of pottery clay and white and gray colored earth was discovered in the southern part of the cadastre. In the second half of the 19th century, the Nučice iron ore deposit was developed by the Prague Iron Industry Society . In 1868 the municipality was assigned to the Hořowitz district . The clay was initially only used as modeling clay; However, after its good fire resistance was established, a pottery workshop was established in Mezouň in 1887. In 1894 another pottery started operating. The white colored earth was sold to Prague, Moravia and Slovakia. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1899. In the years 1929–1931 the village was electrified. In 1932 Mezouň had 580 inhabitants. Mezouň has been part of the Okres Beroun since 1936. A kindergarten was opened in 1962, and the Rudná - Beroun bus line started operating in the same year. The mining of clay and colored earth was stopped in 1969.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Mezouň. The localities Letník and V Háji belong to Mezouň.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. Johannes von Nepomuk, built in 1818. General repairs were carried out in 1973 and 2004.
• Homestead No. 3 on the village square
• Memorial to those who fell in World War I, unveiled in 1925

Web links

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

• History of Mezouň

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/531537/Mezoun
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 16 Berauner Kreis, 1849, p. 26