Zahájí (České Budějovice District)

Zahájí ( German Sahaj ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north of Zliv and belongs to České Budějovice.

Geography

Zahájí located on the edge of the pond landscape of Budweiser basin ( Českobudějovická pánev ). North-east rises the Olešnický vrch ( 499 m ) in the east of Velky Kameník ( 575 m) and Maly Kameník (530 m). To the south lies the pond Mydlovarský rybnik, northwest of the remaining holes of several Lignittagebaue who last served as Klärsümpfe the uranium processing of MAPE Mydlovary and are heavily contaminated. To the east and south extend vast forests.

Neighboring towns are Olešník and Ovčín in the north, and Vyhlídka Chlumec in the northeast, Stara Obora in the east, U Gaby, Křivonoska and Munice the southeast, Zliv in the south, Překážka the southwest, Mydlovary in the west and Dívčice and Nákří in the northwest.

History

On a raised place east of Mydlowar a Marian church was built around 1300. The church soon resulted in a small village which was named after its founder probably as Wawrzinczicz ( Vavřinčice ). Your first written mention was made ​​of the ten peasant farms locating in a papal tithe directory of 1352nd From the names of the inhabitants is seen that the first inhabitants were the Czechs and the German who lived together here. The place name is Wawrzinczicz 1384 for the last time proven, from 1399, the village was called Zahagie ( = backwoods ). Presumably, this name derives from the fact that the residents of Mrs. Berg, at the time still had no church of their own had to go to the church behind the forest. The first mention of a school in Zahájí dates of 16 July 1652. After the French had 1741 women's mountain castle occupied during the Austrian War of Succession, besieged an Austrian army under the command of Georg Christian von Lobkowitz the castle. On May 25, 1742 came to combat in Zahájí, in which about 200 French and about a hundred Austrians fell. During the fights, which consists of wooden houses village was burned and ravaged the fields. In the great famine of 1772 102 people died in Zahájí. In the 19th century began in the vicinity of the place of mining on lignite, iron ore and Ziegellehm.

After the abolition of patrimonial Zaháj formed in 1850 a part of the community Mydlovary in the District Commission Budějovice / Budweis. In 1920, Zahájí of Mydlovary broke off and formed its own community. 1922, the village was electrified, two years later, the volunteer fire department founded. 1952 a kindergarten was built within the walls of the MNV. Between 1957 and 1958, the House of Culture was born. In 1962, the MAPE Mydlovary with the chemical processing of uranium ore, with the disused lignite mines served as a settling tank.

1967 held the Warsaw Pact northwest the village from the maneuver Vltava. After the suppression of the Prague Spring the slogans Hanba (shame ) and Pravda were on 21 August 1968 on the streets of the village vítezí (Truth conquers ) attached. At this time camped in the woods under the Bouda two companies of the Red Army. On 1 January 1976, the annexation took place after Zliv. Since November 24, 1990 Zahájí again forms a separate municipality.

Attractions

• The Church of the Annunciation was built in early Gothic style at the end of the 13th century and extended in the 15th century. Your baroque form was given during reconstruction after a fire in 1742.
• Rectory, Renaissance of the 16th century
• Schwarzenberger oaks ( Schwarzenberské duby ), protected groups of oaks east of the village on the edge of the forest Malá blana.
• The stone shrine on the road to Dříteň from the 16th century
• Cross in memory of the fallen French at the Battle of Zahájí, built in 1932 by the French Government
• Farm in folk architecture, built in 1881