Roudný (Zvěstov)
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Benešov | ||||
| Municipality : | Zvěstov | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 37 ' N , 14 ° 48' E | ||||
| Height: | 452 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 57 (March 1, 2001) | ||||
| Postal code : | 257 06 | ||||
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| Street: | Kamberk - Zvěstov | ||||
Roudný (German Roudny ) is a district of the municipality Zvěstov in the Czech Republic . It is located eleven kilometers southwest of Vlašim and belongs to the Okres Benešov .
geography
Roudný is located in the Středočeská pahorkatina at the northwestern foot of the hill of the same name in a region known as Česká Sibiř ( Bohemian Siberia ). The Blaník rises to the northeast .
Neighboring towns are Vestec and Libouň in the north, Louňovice pod Blaníkem in the northeast, Laby in the east, Předbořice in the southeast, Ramena and Otradov in the south, Bořkovice in the southwest, Hlohov and Šlapánov in the west and Zvěstov in the northwest.
history
Gold mining on the Roudný hill has been documented since the 13th century. The pits were part of the medieval Karrenberg mining district and were abandoned in the 15th century.
The second mining period began in 1769 by the princes of Auersperg on Wlaschim , which lasted until 1804.
Until the end of the 19th century, the valley on the Roudný in the corridors of the Libouň community was uninhabited. In the second half of the 19th century, the geologist František Pošepný examined the deposit and considered it to be prospective. In 1893, the German company Stantien & Becker , which specializes in amber mining, resumed gold mining. Production began in 1896 and the Na Roudným miners' settlement was built . Some of the ores obtained were melted out in Halsbrücke near Freiberg and the gold amalgam processed on site. Moritz Becker has invested exclusively in the Roudný gold mine since 1899 . From the start of mining in 1896 until Becker's death in 1901, 111.7 kilograms of fine gold were extracted in Roudný.
In 1903 the mine was taken over by an English mining company called Dr. Albert Fischer and Herbert Stanley Sudgen in London. She had the mine modernized according to plans by the mining engineer R. Ruoff , who worked in the Transvaal gold mines .
The Roudný gold mine became the most productive in Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1920s, the Roudný colliery had the highest gold yield in Europe.
In the period between 1909 and 1930 the total yield was 5.77 tons of fine gold . The main shaft reached a depth of 450 m. In 1927 the team consisted of 200 miners. The Great Depression ended the bloom of gold mining of Roudný. In 1929 the French investor Auguste Blanchon de Romans acquired the mine. The mine was closed in the mid-1930s. After the mine became the property of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1940, excavation work began the following year.
After the Second World War, the mine was resumed, and gold mining in Roudný was finally stopped in 1956. The mine buildings were initially used as a school and are now used by the ÚSP Ratměřice social welfare institution. The plans of a Canadian company that wanted to remove the sand dumps for the purpose of leaching in the early 1990s were not approved by the Zvěstov community representatives. Since 1998, Roudný has been designated as a district of Zvěstov. In 1991 the place had 51 inhabitants. In 2001 the village consisted of 12 houses in which 57 people lived.