Okrouhlá (Písek District)

Okrouhlá ( German Okrauchla ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers south of Milevsko in South Bohemia and belongs to Okres Pisek.

Geography

Okrouhlá is on the left side above the valley of BILINSKY Potok ( Borowaner Bach) in the hill country belonging to the Central Bohemian Milevská pahorkatina. North-east rises the Za Vládečním ( 492 m), the South East Lomy (518 m ) and southwest of the Obora (570 m). On the eastern edge of the western state road runs between II/105 Milevsko and Bernartice. The railway line Tábor Pisek leads through the eastern part of the village, next stop is Líšnice. South of the village lies the pond Velky Prachovský fishpond, fishpond southwest of Ostrovský.

Neighboring towns are Hajda, Milevsko and Orpršal in the north, Líšnice and Sepekov in the northeast, Závist, U Farků and Zálší in the east, Zběšičky, Ráb and Křižanov the southeast, Libeňák, Prachov U Kunců and Veselíčko in the south, Lanka, Ostrov, Zalarna and Branice in the southwest, and Dolnice Tyrolský dum to the west and Rukáveč, and Zbelítov Osek in the Northwest.

History

Okrouhlá probably belonged since the 13th century to the possessions of the Premonstratensian Mühlhausen. The monastery was destroyed on 23 April 1420 by the Hussites, where all documents were lost. Then the Klingenberg castle count Jan Hájek of Hodětín slammed the orphaned monastic estates of royal rule Klingenberg. After in 1430 the Hussites besieged castle Klingenberg, pledged by King Sigismund the rule in 1431 to Ulrich von Rosenberg because he feared that his Burggraf Kunata Kapler would soon go over to the rebels. Henry V of Rosenberg, who had taken over the indebted estate in 1472, sold on September 28, 1473 a quarter of the possessions of the house Rosenberg, among them, the Klingenberg Pawn, his cousin Bohuslav V. of Swan Mountain.

The first written mention of Okrouhlá dates back to 1488th After Christoph von swan mountain was deceased in 1534, was in 1540 a division of Klingenberg goods, with Okrouhlá the reign Bechyně was slammed. Henry of Swan Mountain closed the village in 1549 again at Klingenberg. In 1575 Christoph von Swan Mountain bought on Worlik from the reigns Klingenberg and Mühlhausen the Exchequer and combined this with Worlik. He pledged Mühlhausen in the same year to Jan Bernard Hodějovský of Hodějov. After the Battle of White Mountain, the goods of Hodějovský of Hodějov were confiscated and the rule of Mühlhausen in 1622 is about the Strahov monastery, whose abbot Kaspar Questenberg built the following year, again in Mühlhausen a monastery. The Strahov Abbot Jerome Hirnheim left in 1675 to restore the ruined Grange. 1785 was part of the Josephine reforms to abolish the abbey. In 1840 Wokrauhla consisted of 19 houses with 198 inhabitants. In the resort was a tavern. To Wokrauhla owned the manor house hunters Ostrow ( Ostrov ). Vicarage was Sepekow. The pin rule Mühlhausen remained until 1848 in the possession of the Strahov Monastery.

After the abolition of patrimonial Okrouhlá / Wokrauhla formed in 1850 a part of the community Líšnice in the district court and district Milevsko. Milevsko - - Pisek - On November 20, 1889, the railway line Tabor took Ražice on the traffic, but a station Okrouhlá never received. In May 1893 Okrouhlá broke loose from Líšnice and formed its own community. After the abolition of Okres Milevsko Okrouhlá was assigned to the Okres Pisek end of 1960 and incorporated in 1961 Branice. Okrouhlá dissolved on 1 January 1993 again from Branice go and formed its own community.

Community structure

For the community Okrouhlá no districts are reported. To Okrouhlá include the layering in Ostrov and Zalarna.

Attractions

• Chapel of Our Lady of Sepekov in the village square, built in 1887
• Wayside cross on the summit at the western end of the village where the road to Milevsko and Bernatice
• Two roadside crosses in the eastern part of the village
• Ostrovský pond fishpond, also called Ostrov, with an area of ​​27.5 ha midst of the pond is a large island on which according to ancient traditions, a medieval festivals should be confessed, have led to the west of a four-meter wide paved ford should. The existence of these festivals but has not yet been demonstrated. An unexplained peculiarity of Ostrovský rybnik are the third of the pond to the west extensive remains of ditches and ramparts, where the stone foundations of two rectangular structures were found.