Ostrov u Macochy
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Blansko | ||||
| Area : | 882 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 23 ' N , 16 ° 46' E | ||||
| Height: | 485 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,120 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 679 14 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Sloup - Jedovnice | ||||
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| Status: | Městys | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Ondřej Hudec (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Ostrov u Macochy 80 679 14 Ostrov u Macochy |
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| Municipality number: | 582182 | ||||
| Website : | www.ostrovumacochy.cz | ||||
Ostrov u Macochy (German Ostrow , also Bretterschlag ) is a minority in the Czech Republic . It is nine kilometers east of Blansko and belongs to the Okres Blansko .
geography
Ostrov u Macochy is located on the eastern edge of the Ostrovská plošina plateau above the dry valley of the Bílá voda in the Moravian Karst . To the east of the town lies the valley of the Lopač brook, which is dammed in two ponds, seeps away south of Ostrov and flows underground into the Bílá voda. The dry valley of the Bílá voda, a side valley of the Punkva , is called Suchý žleb southwest of Ostrov and contains numerous karst caves. The Balcarka cave, discovered in the 20th century, is located on the southern edge of the village . The Macocha sinkhole is two and a half kilometers southwest . The Lopáč (560 m) rises to the east.
Neighboring towns are Sloup , Šošůvka and Holštejn in the north, Baldovec in the Northeast, Lipovec in the east, Krásensko and Senetářov the southeast, Kotvrdovice , Krasová and Vilémovice in the south, Skalní Mlýn and Těchov in the southwest, Obůrka and Nové Dvory in the west and Suchdol and Vavřinec in Northwest.
history
The place was created in the middle of the 13th century in the course of the colonization of the area by the Lords of Hohlenstein . The first settlers probably came from Bavaria. The village of Preterslag was first mentioned in writing in 1349. The current name Ostrov was used for the first time in 1406, at which time the German settlement was probably already extinct. It is believed that there was a fortress on the rock near the courtyard, the owners of which have been using the Ostrov predicate since 1406 . The oldest mention of a pond is from 1406. A part of the village belonged to the Hohlenstein rule, another part to Jedovnice . Between 1430 and 1437 Vok IV. Von Hohlenstein sold the Hohlenstein Castle with all its accessories to Heník von Waldstein . There is evidence of a parish in Ostrov since 1437. After Bernhard Drnovský had acquired the rule Hohlenstein around 1570, he united them with Raitz . At the beginning of the 17th century, Ostrov consisted of 42 houses. Of these, nine lay in desolation in 1656 as a result of the Thirty Years' War. The Drnovský family died out completely in 1667 with Johanka von Roggendorf and the estates fell to their son Johann Christian von Roggendorf. The oldest local seal dates from 1687, it bore the inscription Sigillum Pagi Wostrow . The imperial counts of Roggendorf and Mollenburg owned the rule until 1763. After that, Anton Josef Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt acquired the property. Schooling began in Ostrov in 1785. In 1799 there were 649 people living in the town, in 1812 there were 812. Opposite the church, a new school building was built in 1815 with the support of Hugo Franz Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt . In 1843 Ostrov had 896 inhabitants.
After the abolition of patrimonial Ostrov / Ostrow formed from 1850 a community in the district administration Boskowitz . In 1890 Ostrov had 1220 inhabitants. In 1900 Ostrov consisted of 195 houses in which 1140 people lived. In 1912, Emperor Franz Joseph I. made Ostrov a market town. At that time Ostrov had 1243 inhabitants. In gratitude, the residents had a bust of the emperor cast in the Blansk ironworks, which was placed on a stalactite base in front of the U Němců inn in the new park. Most of the inhabitants worked in the factories of Count Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz, especially in the iron works of Blansko . Since 1923 the Městys has had the official suffix u Macochy . In the same year the Balcarka Cave was discovered and opened to the public on the initiative of Mayor Josef Šamalík. In 1930 the Císařská jeskyně also opened to visitors. During the German occupation between 1939 and 1945, the place was again given the original name Bretterschlag . In 1948 Ostrov u Macochy was assigned to the Okres Blansko . The Císařská jeskyně visitor cave had to be closed in 1952 due to partial flooding. In 1983 a children's sanatorium for speleotherapy opened . Ostrov u Macochy has had a coat of arms and a banner since 1995. There is an information center in the center of the village. Since 2006 Ostrov has been a Městys again .
Community structure
No districts are shown for Městys Ostrov u Macochy. The locality of Pindulka belongs to Ostrov u Macochy.
Attractions
- Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene. The late baroque church was built in 1785 on the site of a previous church and was renovated in 2005.
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
- Memorial to the victims of the Second World War; the bust of the emperor was on the base until 1945
- Dutch stone windmill at the southwest end of the village, it was probably built in 1865.
- Macocha sinkhole
- Balcarka cave
literature
- Johannes Baier (2019): The Balcarka Cave in the Moravian Karst . - In: Fossils 36 (2): 4-9; Wiebelsheim.
