Zahořany u Mníšku pod Brdy

Zahořany
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Středočeský kraj
District :	Praha-západ
Area :	271.6762 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 51 ' N , 14 ° 18' E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '58 " N , 14 ° 17' 48" E
Height:	385 m nm
Residents :	298 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	252 10
License plate :	S.
traffic
Street:	Nová Ves pod Pleší - Mníšek pod Brdy
Railway connection:	Dobříš – Praha-Modřany
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Jiří Pokora (as of 2015)
Address:	Zahořany 58 ; 252 10 Mníšek pod Brdy
Municipality number:	571288
Website :	www.zahorany.cz
Location of Zahořany in the Praha-západ district

Place view

chapel

Memorial stone for the fallen

Zahořany (German Sahorschan ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located four kilometers southeast of Mníšek pod Brdy and belongs to the Okres Praha-západ .

geography

Zahořany is located in the Bojovský hřbet ( Bojower ridge ), part of the Dobříšská pahorkatina ( Dobrian hill country ), on the upper reaches of the brook Zahořanský potok. To the north rises the Hora (448 m nm), in the east the Plavecká (446 m nm), the Malý Budín (442 m nm) and the Horní vrch (439 m nm), south of the Pleš (490 m nm) and west of the Na Včelníku (491 m nm). In the north runs the Dobříš – Praha-Modřany railway line , the next stop is in Rymaně. To the west of the village is the area of the former 16th Včelník anti-aircraft missile station.

Neighboring towns are Rymaně in the north, Čisovice in the northeast, Bojanovice , Masečín and Bratřínov in the east, Borecký and Malá Lečice in the southeast, Senešnice and Na Pleši in the south, Nová Ves pod Pleší and Včelník in the southwest and Horní Rymaně in the northwest.

history

The first written mention of the village located in the Bohemian Chamber Woods was in 1348. Zahořany was under the judge and council of the royal town of Mníšek. The inhabitants lived from agriculture, handicrafts, malting, forestry and mining. The supervision of the mining was carried out by the royal miner in Knin ; the Knin gold deposit stretches from Čisovice via Zahořany, Rymaně, the Pleš, Bratřínov , Malá Lečice, Velká Lečice , Knín, Sudovice, Kozí Hory, Libčice to Mokrsko. An important trade route ran west of Zahořany with the Passauer Straße. From 1352 the village belonged to the newly formed Podbrder district .

After the deep forests of the Hřebeny had increasingly become a hideout for robbers, King Wenceslaus IV enfeoffed the Žebrák burgrave Johann von Leßkow ( Jan z Lestkova ) with the small towns of Mníšek, including the estate, which had been subject to the royal Vargač castle up to now Stříbrná Lhota, two small farms in Tisovice and Bojov, a share of Zahořany, and the hunting and felling rights in the Dobři forests. At the same time he gave the owner of the new rule Mníšek to stop the robber abuse the neck judiciary. Gold mining came to a standstill during the Hussite Wars . In 1437 King Sigismund confirmed the possession of Předbor Řepnický of Řepnice, who had owned the rule since the 1420s. Peter Řepnický von Řepnice sold Mníšek in 1487 to Johann Wratislaw von Mitrowitz , who was able to secure the rule in 1503 with King Vladislav Jagiello . In 1547 Wenceslaus Wratislaw von Mitrowitz also bought the rights to the Mníšek and Dobři forests. Marauding mercenaries ravaged the area during the Thirty Years War . The troops of the Swedish Field Marshal Banér , which passed through Passauer Strasse in 1639, plundered the surrounding villages and then burned them down. In the berní rula from 1654, ten farmed properties and one desert chalet are listed for Zahořany. The brothers Friedrich and Wenzel Euseb Wratislaw von Mitrowitz sold the ruined rule of Mníšek in 1655 for 50,000 guilders to the Prague citizen and tanner Servatius Engel von Engelfluss, who had gained wealth during the war through orders to supply the Wallenstein Army and for his services to the Defense of Charles Bridge against the Swedes had been ennobled. Engel von Engelfluss united the rule of Mnisk with the feudal estates Chrastitz and Čisowitz , and on August 1, 1661 raised them to the family entailment . In 1670 he was raised to the rank of baron. The next owner was his son Servatius Ignaz Engel von Engelfluss, who was followed by his son Ignaz Karl. Ignaz Karl Engel von Engelfluss died in 1743 without descendants, the Fideikommissherrschaft Mnicek fell to his sister Maria Victoria, widowed Freiin Unwerth. In 1744 Zahořany was plundered by passing Prussian troops. The next owner was Maria Victoria's son Ignaz Freiherr von Unwerth, who was raised to the rank of count in 1764. From 1769 the lordship belonged to Johann Nepomuk Count Unwerth, who remained childless. After his death, the rule fell to his younger brother Joseph, who also died in 1822 without heirs. Heir to the rule became Ignaz Graf Unwerth, with his death on April 29, 1829, the family of the Counts of Unwerth became extinct. Because of a legal dispute over the inheritance, the rule was then under land administration for nine years. Zahořany was separated from Fideikommiss during this time and sold to the owners of the neighboring Dobřisch domain, the Prince Colloredo -Mannsfeld. In 1846 Zahořan consisted of 42 houses with 268 inhabitants, three of which belonged to the Čisowitz feudal estate . The parish was Mnisek . Until the middle of the 19th century Zahořan remained subject to the Dobřisch rule.

After the abolition of patrimonial Zahořany / Zahorzan formed from 1850 with the district Rymaně a municipality in the judicial district Dobříš. From 1868 the municipality belonged to the Příbram District . On September 22, 1897, traffic on the Dobříš – Praha-Modřany railway was started. In 1932 there were 490 people in the village of Zahořany, including the Rymaně district. From 1949 Zahořany belonged to the newly formed Okres Dobříš. After its abolition, Zahořany was again part of the Okres Příbram in 1960 , at the same time it was incorporated into Mníšek pod Brdy. Since 1974 the village belongs to Okres Praha-západ . At the beginning of the 1970s, the 16th Včelník anti-aircraft missile facility was built in the woods west of Zahořany; from 1973 to 1985 it was part of the 71st anti-aircraft missile division for the defense of Prague airspace and equipped with S-125 missiles. On November 24, 1990, Zahořany broke away from Mníšek pod Brdy and became independent again. Since 1997 the non-profit society "Magdaléna ops" has been using the former Včelník rocket site as its headquarters and addiction therapy center. The municipality of Zahořany has had a coat of arms and a banner since 2012.