Vojnův Městec

Vojnův Městec
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Žďár nad Sázavou
Area :	1649 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 41 '  N , 15 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '45 "  N , 15 ° 53' 12"  E
Height:	583  m nm
Residents :	777 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	592 22
License plate :	J
traffic
Street:	Ždírec nad Doubravou - Žďár nad Sázavou
structure
Status:	stains
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Karel Malivánek (as of 2018)
Address:	Vojnův Městec 27 591 01 Žďár nad Sázavou
Municipality number:	597091
Website :	www.vojnuvmestec.cz

Vojnův Městec (German Münchsberg , also Wojnomiestetz ) is a place in the Czech Republic . It is located ten kilometers south of Hlinsko on Městecký potok and belongs to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou .

geography

Vojnův Městec is located on the southwestern edge of the Saar Mountains at the transition to the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands in the Městecký potok valley. The hills Suchý kopec (683 m) and Za Kouty (712 m) rise to the north, the Kamenný vrch (802 m) to the east, and the Řeka pond, which is fed by the Doubrava , lies to the west . State road 37 runs through Vojnův Městec between Žďár nad Sázavou and Ždírec nad Doubravou .

Neighboring towns are Košinov in the north, Nová Huť in the east, Borky in the southeast, Radostín in the south, Hluboká in the south-west, Staré Ransko in the west and Krucemburk in the north-west.

history

The place was in 1293, after its owner Henry of Lichtenburg as Heinrichsdorf referred, first mentioned and the chief justice was under the Cistercian monastery Saar . Since 1357 the name Münsprech , which can also be found in Latin scripts as Munchspelk , Muensperch , was in use and the place on the "via Lubetina", an old connection from Bohemia via Libice nad Doubravou to Moravia , was called a market.

At the beginning of the 15th century the Woyna von Stettin family , later called Vojna von Městec, owned the estate. The seat of rule was a fortress that was last inhabited by Jan Vojna and then abandoned and finally disappeared completely. After 1430 the name Vojnův Městec arose after the previous owners. In 1557 the Saar abbot Benedikt sold the town of Vojnův Městec with a free court, a festival, a courtyard and a farm for 20 shock Bohemian groschen to Niklas von Buchow. His son Zbynek sold the estate for 500 ducats to Johann Boček von Kunstadt auf Polná , from whom the Saar Abbey bought it back in 1493 for the same amount. At the beginning of the 17th century the Vojnův Městec estate was transferred to the Olomouc bishopric , and in 1638 the abbot of the rebuilt Saar Abbey bought it back. The location on the important connecting road led to troops moving through during times of war. In 1643 the Swedes invaded and in 1805 it was the French. After the abolition of the Saar monastery, its goods fell to the religious fund in 1784 . In 1786, Emperor Joseph II granted the town the privilege of four annual markets. At the beginning of the 19th century, in the woods on the western slope of the Steinberg (Kamenný vrch), a glassworks and a settlement of glassmakers emerged, from which the Nová Huť district emerged. In 1826 the Bohemian Colonel Marshal Josef Wratislaw von Mitrowitz acquired the Saar and Wognomiestetz camera estates . The next owner was Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein , who linked the Wognomiestetz estate with his dominion Polna including Přibislau , Gitkau and Kreuzberg . He had the glassworks shut down in favor of the Pelles ironworks.

In 1840, the allodial estate Wognomiestetz , located in the extreme southeast of the Časlauer Kreis on the border with Moravia , consisted of the town of the same name and the villages of Radostin , Libinsdorf , Skrdlowitz , Swietinow , Stržanau ( Stržanov ) and Pelles . The official seat was Přibislau. 5094 predominantly Czech-speaking people lived on the estate. The main sources of income were agriculture and animal husbandry, day labor in forestry and agriculture as well as haulage services and some yarn bleaching. The agricultural area comprised 11196 Joch 190 square fathoms, of which just under 4688 Joch were forest. This was managed in three forest districts - the Wognomiestetzer, the Radostiner and the Pelleser Revier. The three Meierhöfe were emphyteutized. The most important company was the stately ironworks in Pelles with 236 employees. The market Wognomiestetz or Wogno-Městec , also called Woynow , consisted of 156 houses in which 1084 people lived. Under the patronage of the authorities were the parish church of St. Apostle Andrew and the school. There was also an inn, three mills and a board saw in the village. According to Wognomiestetz , the Glashütte settlement, located in the forest and consisting of eight Dominikal houses, was also consolidated . Wognomiestetz was the parish for Radostin, Skrdlowitz and Libinsdorf.

After the abolition of patrimonial Vojnův Městec formed from 1850 with the district Nová Huť / Glashütte a market town in the judicial district of Přibyslau . From 1868 the market belonged to the Polna District and from 1884 to the Chotěboř District . In 1930 the forest workers' settlement Borky was established. It was the end of a narrow-gauge forest railway that ran from Cikháj . The wooden houses housed Ruthenian forest workers from Carpathian Russia, who spent five years repairing the damage caused by the snowstorm in 1930 in the Saar mountains . The Jan Hus partisan brigade was organized in Nová Huť during the Second World War in the winter of 1944/45. In the course of the territorial reform of 1949 and the repeal of the Okres Chotěboř, Vojnův Městec was assigned to the Okres Žďár nad Sázavou. In 1950 Vojnův Městec was downgraded to a village and on January 23, 2007 it was regained its status as Městys (Patches).

Local division

The place Vojnův Městec consists of the districts Nová Huť ( glassworks ) and Vojnův Městec ( Münchsberg ) as well as the hamlet Borky.

Attractions

St. Andrew's Church

• Church of St. Andrew, it was built in 1770 instead of a chapel that has been documented since 1358 and was rebuilt in 1791 in its present form
• Cemetery chapel of St. Anthony, built in 1885
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, created in 1732
• square market place
• Němečkův hostinec on the market square, the princely hostel served as a courtroom and residence of the Cistercian monastery Žďár, its present form was created in the 18th century and is attributed to the master builder Johann Blasius Santini-Aichl .
• Memorial stone for the glass worker Peter Aschenbrenner who was killed in the shooting accident in 1822 on Hüttenstrasse
• Nativity scene "Betlém", erected in 2001

Sons and daughters of the place

• Antonín Javůrka (1834–1887), conductor and composer
• Norbert Javůrek (1839–1880), patriotic song writer
• Jaroslav Opat (* 1924), Czech philosopher and author
• Jaroslav Jiřík (1939–2011), Czechoslovak ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist from 1968
• Bohumil Kasal (* 1956), scientist, professor at Pennsylvania State University, institute director, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/597091/Vojnuv-Mestec
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 11: Caslauer Kreis. Prague 1843, pp. 172-176
4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/597091/Obec-Vojnuv-Mestec