Záhornice

Záhornice ( German Zahornitz, also Sahornitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers north of Městec Králové and belongs to fulltext your real estates.

Geography

Záhornice is located in the southern foothills of Jičínská pahorkatina the creek Zahornicky creek. To the west lies the valley of the creek Štítarský with the jam ponds Pustý rybnik and Jakubský fishpond.

Neighboring towns are Malá Strana and Nová Ves in the north, Dubečno in the northeast, Kněžice in the east, Nový Dvůr and Sloveč the southeast, Vinice in the south, Velenice in the southwest, and Poušť Dymokury in the west and Nouzov in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1225 in a document Ottokar I. Přemysl about the hereditary transfer of the village Vesce to the city of Hradec Králové, in a Riuin de Zahornic as a witness occurred. Záhornice was from the mid-14th century to the possessions of the Carthusian monastery Poděbrady. After the Hussite wars the Straník of Kopidlno owned the place. Below Záhornice was the Good Dymokury slammed. In the 16th century had Johanna, widowed Haugwitz of Biskupitz the yard Záhornice. The village and the Vorwerkshof were connected to the goods in Chotěšice in the late 16th century. 1585 broke out between Johann the Younger of Wallenstein and Jan Charbusický of Poděbrady a feud around the yard Záhornice from. Nikolaus von Gersdorff acquired in 1617 Záhornice. As Rioters his property was confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain in 1621 and slammed Záhornice the reign Dymokury.

The Leinmarkt of Záhornice had in the 18th century is of great importance, he was hired in 1848. 1836 destroyed at Christmas a fire large parts of Záhornice.

After the abolition of patrimonial Záhornice formed in 1850 with the district Poušť a municipality in the district Poděbrady. On June 17, 1899 fell in the village of 28 buildings destroyed by fire. In 1902, Count Czernin of Chudenitz build its sugar factory Dymokury a narrow-gauge railway beets. The traveling on 600 -mm gauge railway was extended from 1904 to Mezihájí and eventually expanded until Velenice Chotěšice and Sekeřice. 1931 drove the Dimokurer beet train on a track of 27.8 km. In 1959 the railway was shut down. With the beginning of 1961 the community came to fulltext your real estates. 1970 had 669 inhabitants, which consists of 270 village houses. Between 1980 and 1990 Záhornice was incorporated to Chotěšice.

Community structure

For the community Záhornice consists of the districts Poušť ( Pauscht ) and Záhornice ( Zahornitz ).

Attractions

• Church of St. Matthew, built in the 12th century and since 1357 writing detectable
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, built in 1870, on the road to Jakubský Mlýn
• Ponds Pustý rybnik and Jakubský rybnik

Sons and daughters of the town

• František Pecháček (1896-1944), Turner and resistance fighter against the Nazis