Svratouch
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Pardubický kraj | ||||
| District : | Chrudim | ||||
| Area : | 1272 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 2' E | ||||
| Height: | 655 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 885 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 539 42 | ||||
| License plate : | E. | ||||
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| Street: | Skuteč - Svratka | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 2 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jiří Socha (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Svratouch 290 539 42 Svratouch |
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| Municipality number: | 572349 | ||||
| Website : | www.svratouch.cz | ||||
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Svratouch (German Swratauch ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located one and a half kilometers north of Svratka and belongs to the Okres Chrudim .
geography
Svratouch extends in the center of the Saar Mountains in the valley of the Svratouch brook, which joins the Borek to Řivnáč in Niederdorf. State road II / 354 between Skuteč and Svratka runs through the village . The main European watershed runs north of the village ; the Krounka, which rises there, as well as the Chrudimka, which rises northwest of Svratouch, belongs to the catchment area of the Elbe . To the east lies the Chochol pond in the Borek valley. In the north rises the Otava or Otavův kopec (735 m nm), to the east the Borovina (723 m nm), in the southeast the Karlštejn (783 m nm) and the Louckého kopec (701 m nm), west of the Peškův vrch (717 m nm) and in the northwest of the U Oběšeného (737 m nm).
Neighboring towns are Bahna, Humperky, Krouna , Pleskotka and Porostliny in the north, Čachnov , Ruda and Borová in the northeast, Bukovina, Blatina, Damašek and Naděje in the east, Karlštejn , Česká Cikánka and Moravská Cikánka in the southeast, Svratka in the south, Chaloupěky and Southwest, Krejcar, Chlumětín and Kameničky in the west and Paseky and Filipov in the northwest.
history
Svratouch was first mentioned in a document in 1392 when Smil Flaška von Pardubitz sold the Richenburg estate to Otto von Bergow . From 1485 the village was under the control of the Rychta in Svratka. In 1584 by the captain of the Chrudim district , Burián Špetle von Janovice, ordered census were recorded for Svratouch 24 subjects. Because of the rich clay deposits , there were numerous potters in Svratouch who formed a common guild with their professional colleagues in the town of Svratka in the 16th century . A glassworks was founded at the end of the 16th century, and in 1651 Lorenz Preisler is verifiable as a master glassworker. At the end of the 17th century the village had grown and got its own Rychtář . At that time, Svratouch was called "heretic's nest" by the owners of the Richenburg estate, as the Catholics were only a minority among the population. According to the Josephinian Tolerance Patent, 48 families committed to the Helvetic Confession in 1781 and formed a Helvetic congregation, which in December 1781 set up Protestant registers. In 1783, with the support of the landlord Philipp Josef Graf Kinsky, a tolerance prayer house and the following year an evangelical school was inaugurated.
In 1835, the rustic village of Swratauch , in the south of the Chrudim district , consisted of 197 houses in which 1,334 people lived. The main sources of income were agriculture, linen weaving, pottery and trade. In the village there was a Helvetian prayer house and pastorate, to which the acatholics of the Swratker and Kamenitscheker Kirchsprengels were assigned, a Helvetian school, two mills and an oil press. Aside from the forest to the north and north-east of the village, there were three stately Heger houses. The Catholic parish was Swratka . A Catholic school opened in 1841. Until the middle of the 19th century, Swrata also always remained subject to the allodial rule of Richenburg.
After the abolition of patrimonial Svratouch / Swratauch formed a municipality in the judicial district of Hlinsko with the districts Cikánka and Karlstein . In 1854 Svratouch had 1618 inhabitants. In 1863 the new Protestant school building was built. From 1868 Svratouch belonged to the political district of Chrudim . The Protestant and Catholic schools were merged in 1877. In 1879 there were 1790 people in the community; Svratouch was thus the second largest municipality in the judicial district after the city of Hlinsko . The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1896. In the years 1897–1898 a new schoolhouse was built. The former Protestant school house served the Protestant community as a winter prayer house from 1920. In 1930 the community was connected to the electricity network. On 26 and 27 October 1930, came through a snowstorm to snow damage large parts of the surrounding forests. On May 9, 1945, Soviet bombers attacked fleeing German units in Svratouch and Svratka; in Svratouch several houses were damaged and two people were seriously injured. In 1949 the community was assigned to the newly created Okres Hlinsko; at the same time, the district of Česká Cikánka was reunited with Svratka. In 1961 Svratouch was again assigned to the Okres Chrudim . In 2007, the Protestant community sold the former schoolhouse, which had been used as a presbytery, to the community that wanted to use the listed building as a craft museum or gallery; After the renovation of the outer skin, the municipality followed the suggestion of the local collector Pavel Šiller to set up a museum of historical motorcycles, which was opened on July 9, 2016.
Community structure
The municipality of Svratouch consists of the districts Karlštejn ( Karlstein ) and Svratouch ( Swratauch ). The Naděje holiday home area also belongs to Svratouch.
Attractions
- Evangelical Church, it was built in 1783 as a Helvetian tolerance prayer house. In 1911 the church tower was rebuilt and added on
- Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, built in 1933
- Karlštejn Hunting Lodge , built between 1767 and 1776
- Chapel of St. Aegidius on Karlštejn, built in 1708
- Chochol pond, it serves as a swimming area
- U Tučkovy hájenky natural monument , wet meadows at the sources of the Krounka
- Muzeum historických motocyklů, opened in 2016 in the former Protestant schoolhouse
Sons and daughters of the church
- Jindřich Paseka (1928–2005), healer and founder of Czech biotronics
- Jindřich Hegr (* 1933), painter, graphic artist and illustrator
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/572349/Svratouch
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, p. 252
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/572349/Obec-Svratouch
- ↑ http://www.svratouch.cz/svratouchou/www-muzeumsvratouch-cz/