Doubravice nad Svitavou
Doubravice nad Svitavou ( German Doubrawitz at the Svitava, formerly Daubrawitz ) is a market town in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers south of Boskovice and belongs to Okres Blansko.
Geography
Doubravice nad Svitavou located at the western foot of the Drahany country in the Bosko brázda. The town is located below the confluence of the creek Nešorka on the left bank of the Svitava. To the north of the Na Strážce rises (547 m), the South East Strážka (421 m) and Spálené hora ( 529 m ) south of the Hora ( 383 m), in the southwest of the Horky (403 m ) west of the Velky Chlum (460 m) and in the northwest of the Maly Chlum ( 488 m) and Na Kamencích (428 m). To the north- east lies the medieval deserted village Valkounc.
Neighboring towns are Lhota Rapotina in the north, Újezd u Boskovic, Valchov and Němčice in the northeast, Kuničky in the east, Holešín the southeast, Rájec and Jestřebí in the south, Cerna Hora and Bořitov the southwest, Klemov in the west and Obora and Jabloňany in the northwest.
History
The first written mention of Erhard of Doubravice place in the year 1049th Between 1120 and 1130 Markvart and Mstihněv of Doubravice entered into various transactions as witnesses. Zbynek of Doubravice fell in 1331 at the Battle of meeting against the Austrians. His descendants formed the family branch of Osovsky of Doubravice. The first documentary evidence of belonging to the castle of the same town and the parish Doubravice place in the year 1358. 1371 left Ješek of Doubravice and Skalice the goods of his wife Margaret. In her second marriage with Jimram of Pernštejna they also brought with them their annual income of 250 pounds from the town Doubravice, festivals as well as the woods on the Nešorka. Smil Oldrich of Doubravice extended the possession to the goods Lhota, Klemov and Jestřebí. 1391 sold his son Vanek Černohorský of Boskovice the goods to Ješek Pusek of Kunstat on Otaslavice. For its owners, among others belonged from 1418 onwards, the robber barons Heralt Sovinec. 1436 acquired by back Heralt Kunstat Doubravice together with Petro Vice, the deserted village and the village Podolí Vavrinec. 1528 bought in January Lhotský of Ptení Doubravice including Kuničky and Němčice. Later acquired by Bohuslav Drnovice on Rájec the goods. In 1557 the town received a new seal under Emperor Ferdinand II. After the death of Jan Drnovský the goods fell to the family of rye village. At the beginning of the 17th century, the town consisted of 38 houses, one of which was desolate at the end of the Thirty Years' War. The Doubravice castle is referred to as waste since 1527. Until 1745 the town had grown to 58 houses.
After the replacement of the Patromonialherrschaften Doubravice formed in 1850 with the district Klemov a market town in the district team Boskovice. In 1864, 769 people lived in 119 houses of the village. 1900, the market town of 1136 inhabitants, this included, with the exception of a German all Czech folk group. The place was at that time from 142 stores, six of the inhabitants were Protestants. In the years 1939 to 1941 were made east of the village construction work for the Reich highway Vienna -Breslau. Since the beginning of 1961 the Doubravice belongs to Okres Blansko.
Community structure
The Městys Doubravice nad Svitavou consists of the districts Doubravice nad Svitavou ( Doubrawitz at the Svitava ) and Klemov ( Klemow ).
Attractions
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statue of St. Sebastian, created in 1713
- Postal Doubravice, northeast of the village, the castle was first mentioned in 1255 has applied since 1527 as desolate
Sons and daughters of the town
- January Kunc (1883-1976), Czech composer and teacher, he also used the pseudonym K. Jánoš.