Bučina (Ústí nad Orlicí District)

Bučina ( German Butschina ) is a municipality with 227 inhabitants (1 January 2014) in the Czech Republic. It is situated in 324 m asl 7 km south of the town of Vysoke Myto and the Okres Ústí nad Orlicí belongs to. The municipality covers an area of ​​384 ha

History

Bučina was first mentioned in 1167 in a control list of the monastery Litomyšl. In the 13th century it was one not to the monastery property, but was home to a local noble family that had built a fortified courtyard.

The Church of St. James the Greater is detectable since 1346. After the Edict of Toleration of Emperor Joseph II of 1781 was in Butschina one of the first Reformed congregations in Bohemia. After the abolition of patrimonial regimes in Bohemia until then to rule Leitomischl associated village was in 1848 part of the district Hohenmauth. 1859, the Protestant church school was opened.

After the battle of Hradec Kralove, the village experienced in 1866 of troops, both warring parties. 1872 a fire destroyed, inter alia, the St. James Church fell victim to large parts of Butschina.

1903, the new village school was opened; it was used until 1953.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Anna Chlebounová (* 1875), Czechoslovak politician

Other personalities

• František Makovsky (1897-1974), Czechoslovakian police officer and during the German occupation of guard at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1993 posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations, lived from 1949 to 1960 in Bučina.