Rovná u Strakonic
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Strakonice | ||||
| Area : | 434 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 17 ' N , 13 ° 57' E | ||||
| Height: | 423 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 220 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 386 01 | ||||
| License plate : | C. | ||||
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| Street: | Strakonice - Příbram | ||||
| Next international airport : | České Budějovice Airport | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
| administration | |||||
| Mayor : | Ing.Jan Kudrle (status: 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Rovná 20 386 01 Strakonice |
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| Municipality number: | 536865 | ||||
| Website : | www.obec-rovna.cz | ||||
Rovná (German Rowna ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers northeast of Strakonice in South Bohemia and belongs to the Okres Strakonice .
geography
Geographical location
Rovná is located on the left side of the Rovenský potok in the Blatenská pahorkatina hill country. To the north rises the Chlum (544 m), in the east the Borovnice (500 m), south-east the Brdo (508 m), in the west the Jaslov (521 m) and northwest the Ostrý (522 m), the Zbuš (449 m) and the Sedlina (479 m). At the north-western end of the village lies the Rovenský rybnik pond, towards the southeast the Velký přešťovický rybník. State road I / 4 runs between Strakonice and Příbram on the southern outskirts .
Community structure
No districts have been identified for the municipality of Rovná.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring towns are Radomyšl and Osek in the north, Rohozná, Jemnice and Kbelnice in the Northeast, Nová Dobev, Vítkov and Slatina in the east, Přešťovice , Přeborovice and Sedlíkovice the southeast, Modlešovice and Slaník in the south, Strakonice and Řepice in the southwest, Hořejší Mlyn and Droužetice in West and Černíkov, Domanice in the northwest.
history
Archaeological finds prove an early settlement of the area. A settlement site and urn field of the Knovíz culture and another settlement of the Hallstatt culture were discovered near the village . At the Sedlina there are two barrows of the Hallstatt culture from the 5th century BC. BC, another three on the Chlum and one south of Rohozná. The archaeologist Bedřich Dubský found one of the oldest Slavic settlements in the Strakonice region in V Lemúzích .
The first written mention of the place took place in 1319 as the seat of the Hroznata de Rownych. The court of the Lords of Rowna went out in the 14th century. From 1414 part of the village belonged to the Domanice estate. In 1454 the Vlhlavy estate acquired a share in Rowna. This part belonged to the Řepice estate between 1528 and 1553, the other part was owned by the Strakonitz estate in the 16th century . Later the Stiekna dominion acquired both shares.
In 1840 the village Rowna, northwest of Passauer Straße, consisted of 56 houses with 322 inhabitants, including an Israelite family. In the village there was a manorial farm with a large garden, a hunter's house, an emphyteutical inn and a lime kiln. Aside from that, there was a laundry service. Several limestone quarries were operated around Rowna . The parish was Stiekna . Until the middle of the 19th century, the village of the allodial rule Stiekna and the Mladiegowitz estate remained subject.
After the abolition of patrimonial formed Rovná / Równa 1850 a municipality in the district administration and the judicial district Strakonice. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1902 and is the oldest association in the village. In 1961 Řepice and Rohozná were incorporated. On April 1, 1976 the municipality of Rovná was dissolved; the districts Řepice and Rovná were umgemeindet to Strakonice and Rohozná to Osek . After a referendum, Rovná broke away from Strakonice on November 24, 1990 and formed its own municipality.
Culture and sights
- Chapel of St. Cross on the village square, built in 1717
- Cross at the chapel, erected in 1850
- Memorial to the fallen of the First World War, it bears a guarding lion
- Wayside shrine at the exit to Řepice
- Gabled courtyard no.26 on the village square, built in 1852 in the peasant baroque style
- Zbuš hill with a disused limestone quarry and two lime kilns
- National natural monument Pastvina u Přešťovic , south of the village
- National Natural Monument Rovná , the meadow on the western bank of the Rovenský rybnik was placed under protection in 1972 on 3.8 hectares because of the occurrence of the spring gentian . At the beginning of the 1980s the population comprised about 500 flowering specimens, today it has declined very much.
- Sedlina natural monument on the hill of the same name north of Rovná, it is the only occurrence of pale orchid in southern Bohemia
Sons and daughters of the church
- Miloš Smatek (1895–1974), composer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 0.8 MiB)
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia. Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 8: Prachiner Circle. Calve, Prague 1840, p. 112.
