Rájec-Jestřebí
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Blansko | ||||
| Area : | 1567 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 25 ' N , 16 ° 38' E | ||||
| Height: | 295 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 3,737 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 679 02 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Boskovice - Blansko | ||||
| Railway connection: | Brno – Česká Třebová | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 4th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Romana Synakieviczová (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Blanenská 84 679 02 Rájec-Jestřebí |
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| Municipality number: | 582239 | ||||
| Website : | www.rajecjestrebi.cz | ||||
Rájec-Jestřebí (German Raitz-Jestreb ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located seven kilometers north of Blansko on the Svitava and belongs to the Okres Blansko .
geography
The city is located north of the Moravian Karst at the transition from the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands to the Drahaner Bergland at the confluence of the Býkovka in the Svitava . The state road 374 between Boskovice and Blansko and the railway between Boskovice and Brno run through Rájec-Jestřebí .
Neighboring towns are Klemov and Doubravice nad Svitavou in the north, Holešín and Kuničky in the northeast, Žďár and Petrovice in the east, Ráječko and Spešov in the south.
history
Rájec was first mentioned in 1131 in a list of the Olomouc bishop Heinrich Zdik . In the immediate vicinity of the place there were two castles in the Middle Ages, one of which was on the Na Hradisku corridor and the other on the site of the castle. Both castles were probably destroyed at the end of the 14th century in the power struggle between Margrave Jobst of Moravia and his brother Prokop . Rájec was the seat of a secular rule, which was first in the hands of the local Rájec family and then passed to the Drnovský of Drnovice . The first reports of Jestřebí, which belonged to the Bořitov estate , come from 1371.
In 1570 Bernhard Drnovský had a renaissance castle built on the site of the desert castle Rájec . After the death of Katharina Drnovský, Rájec fell with the Jedovnice estate in 1635 to her widower Zdislav von Heisenstein. After Zdislav's death, several foreign nobles took turns owning the estate. In 1661 Emperor Leopold I granted the rule of Rájec with Jedovnice to the last descendant of the Drnovský, Johanka Drnovský, married to Georg Ehrenreich von Roggendorf . Their son Johann Christian, who took over the property in 1667, was raised to the rank of imperial count with the title of Count von Roggendorf and Freiherr von Mollenburg. During the reign of the Counts of Roggendorf learned the gothic church "All Saints" in the 18th century its baroque redesign. Karl Ludwig Graf Roggendorf founded the village of Roggendorf in 1717 and Mollenburg in 1724 . Karl Ludwig died in 1738. In 1741 his son sold his mother Caroline, née Pálffy -Erdöd, the Rájec and Jedovnice estates. After the fire in Raitz Castle in 1746, Caroline moved from Roggendorf and Mollenburg to Sloup in 1746 . After her death, the inheritance fell to her three sons, who sold the property in 1763 for 360,000 guilders to the husband of their sister Raphaela, Anton Josef Altgraf von Salm-Reifferscheidt , who began to rebuild the castle in the same year. Raitz became the seat of the Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz line. Hugo Franz zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz , who took over the rule in 1811, was an important scholar and entrepreneur. In addition to founding a sugar factory, spinning mill and art foundry, he made a contribution to building the railway through the Zwittetal .
After the end of patrimonial Rájec became an independent municipality in 1850. In 1946 the Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz family was expropriated and interned. The family cemetery of the house is opposite the church in Sloup .
In the course of the municipal reform of 1960, the places Rájec nad Svitavou and Jestřebí were united to the town of Rájec-Jestřebí .
Local division
The town of Rájec-Jestřebí consists of the districts Holešín ( Holeschin ), Jestřebí ( Jestreb ), Karolín ( Karolin ) and Rájec ( Raitz ), which also form cadastral districts.
Attractions
- Rájec nad Svitavou Castle , built between 1763 and 1769 for Anton Karl Josef Prince zu Salm-Reifferscheidt and surrounded by an English castle park in 1767
- All Saints Church in Rájec nad Svitavou, built before 1350 and 1574 with the addition of a tower
- Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, burial place of the von Roggendorf family
- Chapel of St. Anne in Jestřebí, built in 1867
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