Horní Bukovina

Horni Bukovina ( German: Oberbukowin ) is a municipality in Okres Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. It consists of the villages of Horni and Dolni Bukovina. Both places live mainly from agriculture and together have 205 inhabitants (2008).

Geography

The two villages are situated 5 kilometers away from the city Mnichovo Hradiště in the floodplain of the Zábrdka, a small tributary of the Jizera, and are regularly affected by floods. The community land consists largely of arable land, 83 ha are woodland. The nearby towns are in the north Rokyta, Mukařov and Jivina, in the south Bila Hlína and Klášter Hradiště nad Jizerou. Bukovina was on the Czech- German language border until 1945; the neighboring village Rokyta was already in German.

History

The name suggests that Bukovina was cleared instead of a beech forest. Probably the village like other places in the area at the time of internal colonization in the 12th or early 13th century by Cistercian monks from the nearby monastery Hradiště was created, references to an older population there is not anyway. The monastery was also the first testified rule in place. The oldest mention in the monastery books carries the 10th march 1399. Hradiště The land register of lists in 1400 in the village of Bukovina 37 subjects on.

The monastery was burned down in 1420. After several changes of ownership in 1556 by Jiří Labouň bought a part of the former convent domain, including the Bukovina village and the neighboring Podbukovina, which was first mentioned on this occasion. These two names above also provides a basic entry by 1561st The current official names Horni and Dolni Bukovina emerged only in the late 18th century as a translation of the German names upper and Unterbukowin.

Descendants of George of Labouň sold it in 1612 to Václav Budovec Budova. After his execution 1621 1622 Albrecht of Wallenstein bought the lands on. Owned by the Waldstein family Bukovina remained as part of the rule Hradiště until the abolition of forced labor in 1848. Fronhof The Kristiánov was called, according to Christian Vincent Ernst von Wallenstein ( 1794-1858 ), which were restored in 1843, the rundown building. The designation but not prevailed and came after 1915 into oblivion.

1864 was the municipality Bukovina from the merger of the towns Bila Hlína, Habr, Klášter Hradiště and Horni and Dolni Bukovina. 1920 there was a reallocation: Bila Hlína and Klášter Hradiště have since independently, to the municipality Horni Bukovina only includes the two villages that bear the name of Bukovina.

Horni Bukovina is a member of the microregion Sdružení obcí Středního Pojizeří (Association of Municipalities in the middle Iser), which has set itself the promotion of tourism and the conservation goal.

Attractions

• In the district of Horni Bukovina are a few dozen sculptures that were created as part of the symposium " Fine art, nature and the land." The international sculptors workshop will take place every two years since 1996 in the Monastery and Hradiště and is sponsored by the micro-region. Most works of art are situated in the open countryside around Bukovina and Ptýrov.
• The Mill in Dolni Bukovina has been in operation since the 16th century. The present building was built in 1763.
• The Chapel of Saint Wenceslas is from 1861. It was renovated in 1913, 1955 and 1993.

District of Horni Bukovina