Černíkovice (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)

Černíkovice is a municipality in the district Rychnov nad Kněžnou in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers north-west of Rychnov nad Kněžnou.

Geography

Černíkovice located in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains. Neighboring towns are Solnice in the northeast, Lipovka in the east, Domašín the southwest, Třebešov in the south, southwest and Uhřinovice Lično in the west.

History

Černíkovice was probably founded in the 11th century and was first called Grunau. It was first documented in 1354, when it was on Uhřínov owned by Jan Ovčíř of Žampach. In 1376 it was suitable in January of Kolda Žampach, the 1407 equal- son Jan Kolda followed by Žampach. Since this was accused of robber barons, occupied in July 1441 in Eastern Bohemia Country Fried under Jetřich z Miletínka three weeks Černíkovice that was not destroyed. In 1457 it passed to the then Landesverweser George of Podiebrad. After George's death in 1471 Černíkovice received due to the inheritance of 1472 the eldest son Boček of it in 1491 to his younger brother Henry the Elder. left. This had Černíkovice 1495 to the highest steward of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Wilhelm II of Pernštejna, sell it remained with his descendants until 1556. This year, it acquired the mortgage Lord of the County of Glatz, Ernst Duke of Bavaria, who sold it in 1558 to Matthias Dobeš of Olbramovice. 1572 was Černíkovice, belonged to the then Domašín, Třebešov, the desert festivals Ostrov, Hroška and Újezd ​​, owned by Barbara Trček of Bieberstein, from her husband in January 1585 it Jetřich the Elder. inherited from Zerotin. After his death in 1592 Černíkovice received his second wife Ludmilla Kolowrat. 1606 was Černíkovice owned by the Magdalena Trček von Lobkowitz, which it inherited her son Adam Erdmann Trček of Lipa. This was murdered in 1634 in Eger, together with Wallenstein, and so first of ownership passing to his father John Rudolf Trček of Lipa. Shortly before his death he carried out in 1634 also wrote Černíkovice bequeathed his daughter Maximiliane von Harrach. She could not take possession, as after a court case against the late Orders Jan Rudolf and his wife, whose possessions were confiscated in 1636 by the Emperor Ferdinand II. He gave Černíkovice 1636 the Georg Krafft Lammers village. Around this time there was a rule from the knight's seat Černíkovice, Domašín, Třebešov, Byzhradec, Hoska, Roudný and seven other villages from the reign Opočno. Georg Krafft Lammers village, built in 1652 a new church. Krafft's descendants sold Černíkovice 1676 to Franz Karl Libštejnský Kolowrat on Reichenau, in whose descendants it remained until the expropriation in 1948. After the Velvet Revolution in the possession of the Kolowrat family was restituted by Krakowsky.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Černíkovice Černíkovice and Domašín.

Attractions

• Palace and Gardens
• Church of the Holy Exaltation
• Chapel in Domašín
• Listed blockhouses

Weblink

• Czech history