Cikháj
Cikháj ( German goats grove ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located nine kilometers north of Zdar nad Sázavou in the Saarer mountains and belongs to Okres Zdar nad Sázavou.
Geography
Cikháj located on Cikhajský creek in the woods of Zdarske Hills at the southeastern foot of the Tisůvka ( 792 m). In the northeast of the Žákova hora rises (809 m), on whose slopes the sources of Svratka (river) are, and east of the 824 m high Křivý javor where the Cikhajský Potok, a source stream of the Sázava, its origin is increasing. By Cikháj leads the state road 350 between Přibyslav and Svratka.
Neighboring towns are Herálec in the north, Fryšava pod Žákovou horou, Tři Studně and Sklené the southeast, Světnov in the south,
History
After the September 9, 1366 by order of the State Marshal Henry of Lipa in the field a border demarcation between the Nové Město na Moravě and the monastery Zdar was done, ordered Boček Žďárský of Kunštát 1368 to a utilization of forests and cloistered courtyard forest village was established. Starting from the cloister was the application of the settlement Czykhaki, in the first forest workers and Köhler lived. After the reclamation of forest land and agriculture was possible, and after application of the fish ponds. Later, mining and timber wealth was led to the establishment of two glassworks. 1759 was the settlement Kozandiana.
Until the secularization of the monastery in 1784 were both places of monastic property, and then became part of the dominion of Zdar. In 1788 the merger of the farm forest village was carried out with the settlement Cikhay whose name was written in the course of time as Cikai, goats grove and Cikháje.
After the abolition of patrimonial Cikháj became an independent municipality in 1849 and belonged to the District Commission Nove Mesto. In 1850 the incorporation of Kocanda. 1862 opened a village school, which moved into a new school building in 1901. 1869 lived in the village of 445 people and in 1930 it was 319 On March 7, 1930, the President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was made an honorary citizen. After the snow break from October 1930 was between Cikháj and the newly established forest workers' settlement Borky at Vojnův Městec a forest railway, which was decommissioned in 1935. During the Second World War Cikháj became a center of the partisan movement and in the woods, the group had " Mistr Jan Hus " their hideout.
After the war, the village lost some of its inhabitants, of whom 76 after the expulsion moved into the formerly German- populated areas. The district Kocanda was spun off in February 1948, the municipality Herálec. In 1950, the town had 209 inhabitants. In the same year the town started in the center with the construction of a cultural center. At the instigation of the agricultural cooperative should be enforced with the help of officials of the District Committee of the conversion into a barn, which was after protests of the inhabitants prevented. After the district refused financial support for the continued construction of the cultural center, the municipality sold the unfinished building at the University of Brno, who built a training center in the object 1963. The local government reform of 1960 Cikháj was incorporated into Světnov.
In 1970 the headwaters of the Svratka on Žákova Hora was declared a conservation area Zdarske Hills. In 1976, the school was closed. On 1 July 1980, the spin-off of Cikháj from Světnov and the incorporation to Zdar nad Sázavou was. Since 1992 Cikháj again forms a separate municipality.
Attractions
- Belfry
- Monument to the Partisan Brigade Mistr Jan Hus, west of the village near the forest
- Watermill
- Marterl
- Former cloister forest village