Vrchovany

Vrchovany ( German Wrchhaben ) is a municipality of Okres Ceska Lipa in the Liberec Region in the north of the Czech Republic. The village lies 3 km northeast of Dubé ( Dauba ) on the road to Doksy ( Hirschberg at the lake) on the southeast slope of the Berkovsky vrch ( Wrchhabener mountain). It is overlooked by the ruins of the castle Stary Berštejn ( Altperstein ).

History

The town was first mentioned in 1402. 1912 had the old Slavic farming village on the plateau between the Daubaer Switzerland and the grief Mountains 60 houses. Wrchhaben was gepfarrt after Dauba; in place there was a small Assumption Chapel.

Attractions

Southwest of the village, in the incision between the surveys Zahájí ( Sahai ) and the binder knoll rises the Liběchovka. On the 358 m high rocky hill, the binder knoll above Mlýnek (small mill), lie the ruins of the St. Barbara's Chapel, which was built in 1744 by Anna Katharina Countess of Sweerts and Spork.

South of the village is located under a chestnut tree a cross on a stone base, which was restored in 2005.

Vrchovany was incorporated in the 1960s by Dubé and again since 1990, an independent municipality. In the village there is a horse farm.

On the territory of the municipality, the waste places of the monolayer and Rotten U Samot ( Rodeland ) Doubí (calibration Karpacz ) and Panská are ( Pauska ).