Zahájí
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | České Budějovice | ||||
| Area : | 450 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 5 ' N , 14 ° 22' E | ||||
| Height: | 407 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 471 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 373 48 | ||||
| License plate : | C. | ||||
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| Street: | Hluboká nad Vltavou - Dříteň | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jiří Novák (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Zahájí 4 373 48 Dívčice |
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| Municipality number: | 536016 | ||||
| Website : | www.zahaji.cz | ||||
| Location of Zahájí in the České Budějovice district | |||||
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Zahájí (German Sahaj ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located three kilometers north of Zliv and belongs to the Okres České Budějovice .
geography
Zahájí is located on the edge of the pond landscape of the Budweiser Basin ( Českobudějovická pánev ). The Olešnický vrch (499 m) rises to the northeast, the Velký Kameník (575 m) and Malý Kameník (530 m) to the east. To the south is the Mydlovarský rybník pond, to the northwest the remaining holes of several lignite pits , which were last used as sewage sumps for uranium processing at MAPE Mydlovary and are heavily contaminated. Extensive forests stretch to the east and south.
Neighboring towns are Olešník and Ovčín in the north, Vyhlídka and Chlumec in the northeast, Stará Obora in the east, U Gáby, Křivonoska and Munice in the southeast, Zliv in the south, Překážka in the southwest, Mydlovary in the west and Dívčice and Nákří in the northwest.
history
A St. Mary's Church was built around 1300 on an elevated square east of Mydlowar. A small village soon developed around the church, which was probably named Wawrzinczicz ( Vavřinčice ) after its founder . The settlement, which consists of ten peasant farms, was first mentioned in a papal tithe list from 1352. The names of the residents show that the first residents were Czechs and Germans who lived here together. The place name Wawrzinczicz is documented for the last time in 1384, from 1399 the village was called Zahagie (= back forest ). This name is probably derived from the fact that the residents of Frauenberg , who at that time did not have their own church, had to go to the church services behind the forest. The first news about a school in Zahájí comes from July 16, 1652. After the French had occupied the Frauenberg Castle in 1741 during the War of the Austrian Succession , an Austrian army under the command of Georg Christian von Lobkowitz besieged the castle. On May 25, 1742 there was a battle near Zahájí, in which around 200 French and over 100 Austrians were killed. During the fighting, the village, made up of wooden houses, was burned down and the fields devastated. In the great famine of 1772, 102 people died in Zahájí. In the 19th century, the mining of lignite, iron ore and brick clay began in the vicinity of the place.
After the abolition of patrimonial Zaháj formed from 1850 a district of the municipality Mydlovary in the district administration Budějovice / Budweis. In 1920 Zahájí broke away from Mydlovary and formed its own community. The village was electrified in 1922, and the volunteer fire brigade was founded two years later. In 1952 a kindergarten was set up in the MNV building . The culture house was built between 1957 and 1958. In 1962, MAPE Mydlovary began chemical processing of uranium ore, using the closed lignite pits as settling basins.
In 1967 the Warsaw Pact held the Vltava maneuver northwest of the village . After the crackdown on the Prague Spring , the slogans Hanba ( Shame ) and Pravda vítězí ( Truth wins ) were posted on the streets of the village on August 21, 1968 . At that time two Red Army companies were camped in the woods under the Bouda . On January 1, 1976, it was incorporated into Zliv. Since November 24, 1990, Zahájí has again formed its own community.
Attractions
- The Church of the Annunciation was built in the early Gothic style at the end of the 13th century and expanded in the 15th century. It received its baroque appearance when it was rebuilt after a fire in 1742.
- Rectory, Renaissance building from the 16th century
- Schwarzenberg oaks ( Schwarzenberské duby ), protected groups of oaks east of the village on the edge of the Malá blana forest.
- Stone wayside shrine on the road to Dříteň from the 16th century
- Cross in memory of the French who fell in the battle near Zahájí, erected in 1932 by the French government
- Folk style farm, built in 1881
