Březiny

Březiny ( German Brzezina, 1939-45 Birkicht ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located eleven kilometers west of Polička and belongs to Okres Svitavy.

Geography

The scattered settlement Březiny is located in the southeast of the Saarer mountains. The village is situated on the left side of the Svratka on the slopes. To the north, the Rybenské Pernický rise ( 748 m ) southeast of the Hatě ( 655 m), in the south of Vysoký Kopec (806 m) to the west, the Ctyri Palice (732 m) and Milovské Pernický (732 m) and in the northwest of the Zkamenělý zámek (775 m) and Bubnovaný kopec (780 m). The associated with Bohemia village is located just north of formed by the passage of Svratka historic border with Moravia.

Neighboring towns are Damašek in the north, Pustá Rybná and Landráty in the northeast, svety, Maděra and Telecí in the east, Krasne and Mrhov the southeast, Daňkovice, Zálesí and Podlesí in the south, České Milovy the southwest, Křižánky in the west and Česká Cikánka, Moravian Cikánka and Karlstejn in the northwest.

History

The belonging to the Bohemia domination Richburg village was founded in the 17th century. Ancient records report that during the Thirty Years' War the inhabitants of surrounding villages from the Swedes in the marshy and inaccessible area fled and hid themselves here. On the carved at different places in the woods beats they put on fields. Other sources indicate that after the Battle of White Mountain Protestants had taken refuge in the remote woods. A village structure was not there. On the opposite bank there was the Moravian village Bezděkov, which was burned down by the Swedes or during the Turkish invasions. It was not rebuilt and its wooded corridors again.

1696 founded the Men Berka of Dubé and Lipa in the Brzezina a stately Glashütte. The first written mention of the settlement was Brzezina 1702nd Berka The cabin had its heyday from 1750 to 1800, when it was known by flat painted or polished bottles. During this time, existed in Brzezina three iron hammers, one of which was located on the Moravian side of the Svratka. In addition, the inhabitants lived by the logging and charcoal for the forges. In the 19th century extinguished all three hammers, the demand for charcoal could no longer be covered by the increasing deforestation of the deciduous forests.

After the abolition of patrimonial Březiny made ​​1850 a municipality in the administrative district of Polička. 1896 715 people lived in the village. In 1900, lived most of the inhabitants of the place of agriculture. In the winter months they worked in the forestry and processed flax Leinzeug, which they sold in Borová. In the 1930s Březiny had 574 inhabitants, of whom 180 were the Slovaks, who helped in the woods, the consequences of the snow disaster fraction of 26 and 27 October 1930 to eliminate. In the 1950s and 1960s, a sharp decline in population was due to emigration. In 1961 the place to Okres Svitavy.

Personalities

• Josef Václav Justin Michl (1810-1862), pseudonym Drašar the priest and writer spent his life in a small Chaluppe in Březiny and is buried in the local cemetery. Tereza Novakova describes in her novel " Drašar ," the tragic story Michls who felt slighted as a teacher at Piarist of plague and moved to Březiny. Here he fell in love with Josefa Maděrová, who died at the birth of his daughter.

Attractions

• Nature Reserves Milovské Pernický, Rybenské Pernický, Zkamenělý zámek and Ctyri Palice
• Protected Luňáček - Linde ( Luňáčkova lípa ), the 300-500 year old linden tree has a trunk diameter of 6 m and is 30 m high.
• So-called folds, Vierseithof block design from the period of German colonization
• Chapel of St. Rochus
• Drašar - Linde ( Drašarova lípa ), in addition to the Chaluppe on the edge of the settlement in the Drašar spent the end of his life
• Plaque for Drašar in the cemetery