Věchnov

Věchnov
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Žďár nad Sázavou
Area :	682 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 30 '  N , 16 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '43 "  N , 16 ° 16' 48"  E
Height:	576  m nm
Residents :	341 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	593 01
License plate :	J
traffic
Street:	Bystřice nad Pernštejnem - Nedvědice
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	František Fendrych (as of 2018)
Address:	Věchnov 73 593 01 Bystřice nad Pernštejnem
Municipality number:	596965
Website :	www.obecvechnov.cz

Věchnov (German Wiechnow , older also Wechnau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located three kilometers southeast of Bystřice nad Pernštejnem and belongs to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou .

geography

Věchnov is located on a ridge between the Nedvědička , Bystřice and Svratka valleys in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands . Věchnov extends along the Věchnovský potok, which rises in the village. The Babylon (626 m) rises to the southeast and the Věchnov (618 m) to the west. In the east is the remaining hole in the Železinka mine / iron shaft.

Neighboring towns are Bratrušín in the north, Lesoňovice in the north-east, Vrtěžíř in the east, Ujčov , Lískovec and Kovářová in the south-east, Býšovec and Pernštejnské Janovice in the south, Josefov in the south-west, Zlatkov and Rodkov in the west, and Nový Dvůnadem Pernštejnadem and Bystřšnadem north-west.

history

Chapel of St. Antony

The place was founded by German colonists. The first documentary mention of the village Wiechnow , which previously belonged to Auersperg Castle, took place in 1325, when Jeruše von Auersperg brought the place belonging to her trousseau to the Augustinian monastery at Doubravník . 1335 was the village as Hadmars and 1343 as Wechnaw referred. Later the spelling of the place name changed frequently. After the destruction of the monastery by the Hussites , the place came back to the Pernstein estates and was incorporated into the Bystřice manor . In the 17th century Wiehniow became the seat of a judge. At the beginning of the 19th century, the magnetite deposit east of the village was opened up and the Eisenschacht / Železinka colliery sunk. The mining turned out to be very profitable, as high-quality ore was extracted with little effort, which was smelted in the Stiepanau ironworks.

After the abolition of patrimonial Věchňov / Wiechnow formed a municipality in the Neustadtl district from 1850 . In 1893 the place was named Wěchnow and since 1915 it has been called Věchnov. In 1949 the community was assigned to the Okres Bystřice nad Pernštejnem. In 1961 it was assigned to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou. In the 1980s, the Železinka mine, which was used to mine gravel after iron mining stopped, was closed and then largely filled with household waste. Between 1981 and 1992 Věchnov was incorporated into Bystřice nad Pernštejnem.

Local division

No districts are shown for the municipality of Věchnov.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. Antonius, at the village pond, built in place of a smaller previous building, consecrated in 1956
• Cast iron cross on the road to Kovářová, from 1900
• protected grass steppe Argentina, north of the village

Web links

• Brief portrait on the Bystřicko microregion website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/596965/Vechnov
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ↑ L. Hošák, R. Šrámek, Místní jména na Moravě a ve Slezsku I, Academia, Praha 1970, II, Academia, Praha 1980th