Rájec (Šumperk District)
Rájec ( German Großrasel ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers southeast of Zábřeh and belongs to Okres Šumperk.
Geography
Rájec located on the stream Rajecky creek on the northeast waste of Mirovská Highlands ( Mürauer Bergland ) for Mohelnická Brázda ( Müglitzer furrow ). The village is located on the right side of the Moravian Sázava immediately before their confluence with the Morava. The place is in the east bypass of the state road 44 between Zábřeh and Mohelnice and the railway line from Olomouc to Zábřeh. The nearest train station is Zábřeh. To the south, the hill rises Hlína (335 m).
Neighboring towns are Ráječek in the north, Leština in the northeast, Vitosov in the east, in the southeast Hrabova, Zvole and Slavoňov in the south, and Krchleby Pobučí the southwest, Jestřebí in the west and Skalička in the northwest.
History
According to archaeological finds, was located in the corridors of the community, a settlement site of the Lusatian culture. The first written mention of Rájec took place in 1273 in a certificate issued for the Müglitzer judge of the diocese of Olomouc. The place was in 1320 have been sufficient, together with other villages as episcopal fief to a lower landed gentry. Subsequently changed as owner of the farm and village several small noble families, some of which the predicate of Rájec zulegten itself. 1408 was the relocation of the Episcopal Lehnsadministration of Müglitz the castle Mürau. Since the mid-15th century in Rájec a stronghold detectable. The Mannslehn Rájec included at that time the villages Rájec, Ráječek, Jestřebí Lupěné and Javoří.
During the fighting between Matthias Corvinus and Georg von Podiebrad to the Bohemian crown came from 30 September to 1 October 1468 between Rájec and Zvole to a battle between Czech and Hungarian troops. The under the command of the Silesian knight Franz von Hag ( František z Haje ) standing Hungary raided coming from Olomouc, at first for the night at the Bohemia Zvole. The next day the Bohemians were on the only open path of retreat after Zábřeh attacked and encircled by the crew of the festivals Rájec. In the bitter fighting died on Bohemian side about 600 men, some of them drowned in the Moravian Sázava. The Bohemian military leader Zdeněk Kostka Postupic was doing, probably mortally wounded by John of Vrbno and taken to the castle Zábřeh, where he died.
1564 bought by the Olomouc Bishop Markus Kuen back in the meantime pledged Rájec and closed it to the reign Mürau. Later Rájec was temporarily served again as a deposit. During the Thirty Years' War the Swedes ravaged the yard, the festivals already extinct at this time. In hooves register of 1677 are reported for 27 Rájec estate, three of which were desolate. In the vicinity of the village were three fish ponds, these were drained in the 19th century. 1787, the Court Rájec was divided into lots and along the road to the south of Great Müglitz Raasel subsequent and named after the Archbishop Anton Theodor von Colloredo- Waldsee - Mels settlement Theodorow was created. After 1800, the mining of iron ore began in the vicinity of the place. In the United Raasel a village school was established in 1820. 1834 Theodorow had 320 inhabitants and consisted of 55 houses; in Great Raasel were 51 houses with 318 inhabitants.
After the abolition of patrimonial Rájec / Great Rasel was formed in 1850 with the district Theodorov a municipality in the district chief city. Between 1867 and 1923 formed Theodorov own municipality and was then reconnected to Rájec. Rájec consisted in 1900 of 58 houses and 309 inhabitants had. In the 54 houses of Theodorov lived at the same time 287 people. 1930 the community had 613 inhabitants Rájec which 612 Czechs and a German. After the Munich Agreement in 1938 Großrasel annexed to the German Reich and belonged until 1945 to the district chief city. 1939 lived 588 people in the community. 1950 Rájec had 505 inhabitants and consisted of 122 houses. At the end of 1960, the Okres Zábřeh was disbanded and assigned to the municipality the Okres Šumperk. In 1991, the city of 124 residential buildings consisted of 453 residents. The community performs a coat of arms.
Community structure
For the community Rájec no districts are reported. To Rájec heard the local situation Teodorov ( Theodorow ).
Attractions
- Penitential cross from the 16th century, the village green
- Bell tower from the second half of the 19th century, the village green
- Chapel of St.. Trinity in Teodorov
- Sculptural group of St.. Trinity, a listed monument since 2003
- Penitential cross to commemorate the battle of 1468, it was transferred to Ráječek the construction of railways from its original location to the road
- Homestead No. 1, built in the 18th century folk architecture