Věstín
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Kraj Vysočina | ||||
| District : | Žďár nad Sázavou | ||||
| Area : | 914 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 34 ' N , 16 ° 20' E | ||||
| Height: | 540 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 157 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 592 65 - 593 01 | ||||
| License plate : | J | ||||
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| Street: | Vír - Rovečné | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 3 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Petr Janoušek (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Věstín 26 592 65 Rovečné |
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| Municipality number: | 597031 | ||||
| Website : | www.obecvestin.cz | ||||
Věstín (German Groß Wiestin , Groß Weyssin ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located eight kilometers northeast of Bystřice nad Pernštejnem and belongs to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou .
geography
Věstín is located on the left side above the confluence of the Bystřice in the Svratka in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands . To the west is the Vír I dam . In the north rise the Bukovec (707 m) and Horní les ( Oberwald , 774 m), south the Dubovice (640 m) and the Pyšolec (464 m). In the south is the Vír II dam .
Neighboring towns are Dudkovice in the north, Rovečné in the northeast, Malé Tresné and Věstínek in the east, Bolešín in the southeast, Kobylnice and Vír in the south, Hrdá Ves in the southwest, Chlum in the west and Polom in the northwest.
history
The village was created during the colonization of the border forests between Moravia and Bohemia. It belonged to the estates of Štěpán from Pernstein's widow Klara and was first mentioned in a document when she had more children transferred to their son and her second husband Vznata von Tasov and Vznatas in 1349. A little later Věstín came back to the Pernstein dominion . In 1590 Věstín, along with eleven other villages in the area , was incorporated into the Kunstadt rule , to which it belonged until 1848.
After the abolition of patrimonial Věstín formed with the district Malý Věstín (Věstínek) from 1850 a municipality in the Boskovice district .
At the end of the Second World War, partisans were operating in the surrounding forests. In December 1944 they shot the German resident Karel Haberhauer and in March 1945 his widow as well. In 1949 the community came to Okres Bystřice nad Pernštejnem. 1961 Bolešín was incorporated and the municipality Věstín assigned to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou . In 1973 Věstín was attached to Rovečné . The community has existed again since 1990.
The Věstín area is a place where grenades , muscovites and titanites were found .
Local division
The municipality Věstín consists of the districts Bolešín ( Boleschin ), Věstín ( Groß Wiestin ) and Věstínek ( Klein Wiestin ), which also form cadastral districts. Věstín also has a single-layer Ve Žlebech.
Attractions
- Horní les mountain with a 59 m high observation tower
- Pyšolec castle ruins , south of the village above Svratka
- wooden chalets in folk construction
Web links
- Brief portrait on the Bystřicko microregion website
- Obec Věstín. On: Informační Systém pro Žďárské Vrchy a Svrateckou Hornatinu.