Nížkov

Nížkov ( German Nischkau ) is a municipality in Okres Zdar nad Vltavou, Czech Republic. It has 961 inhabitants to 18.32 km ² and thus a population density of 52 inhab. / Km ².

Geography

Nížkov than twelve miles south-west of the town of Zdar nad Sázavou and eight kilometers northeast of Polná. By the municipality of Bach Poděšínský creek, the creek flows into the Sirákovský here flows.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1234 as the reason Mr. Jan Polná the Cistercian monastery of St. Bernard ( Cela sv. Bernarda ) founded. Next to the monastery a wooden church was built and the monks put on a vineyard. Even after five years returned the abbot Slávek and the brothers back because of the adverse living conditions and asserted by the Diocese of Olomouc territorial claims in her mother Osek monastery.

Under Nížkov there are several underground passages, one of them probably led to the church.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Nížkov Buková ( Bukau ) Nížkov ( Nischkau ) and Špinov ( Spinnhof ).

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St.. Nicholas, built in the second half of the 13th century building received its present form in 1753 by the cultivation of the ship and the increase of the tower. Is the 1709 scale ossuary, where skulls and bones of about 8,000 people located on the western front.
• Historic rectory mansard roof
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk in front of the rectory, created in 1868
• Cast Iron Cross in 1850, in the parsonage
• Shrine on the road to Sázava created in 1748, it commemorates the end of the plague years 1741-1748
• Stone arch bridge over the creek Poděšínský, built in 1889
• Stone arch bridge over the Sázava in the locality U Červeného mlýna at the train station, two miles outside of Nížkov