Bukovany (Hodonín District)

Bukovany ( German Bukowan, formerly Bukowann ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers north-west of Kyjov and belongs to Okres Hodonín.

Geography

Bukovany located at the southern foot of the Steinitzer forest in the hills Věteřovská Highlands. The village is located on the left side above the source tray of the stream Bukovanka. To the east lies the valley of the Kyjovka. To the north rises the Bukovany ( 355 m ) in the south and south-west of the Nová hora lysis Mountains ( 355 m).

Neighboring towns are Haluzice in the north, Bohuslavice in the northeast, Moravany in the east, Kostelec, Boršov and Kyjov in the southeast, Svatobořice in the south, and Sobůlky Věteřov the southwest, Ostrovánky in the west and Nechvalín in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village Budkouene on June 30, 1131 a document of the Olomouc Bishop Heinrich Zdik over the ownership of the Benedictine monastery Hradisko. The National Archives Opava another, this time matching, certificate Zdiks on the acquisition of a village Velké Bukovany or Bukowitz of Duke Wenceslas I is In 1201 the village Bukovany was in the possession confirming customer the king Přemysl Otakar I and the Margrave Vladislav Henry listed for the Hradisko.

Due to ambiguity of the place name and the different spellings some of the documents have not yet been allocated accurately. Gustav Friedrich went in Codex diplomaticus et regni epistolaris Bohemiae II/21 assume that in the deed of 30 June 1131 in the next Budkouene another eleven villages are called to Kyjov, Bukovany is meant. The historian Bohumil Zlámal took the view that the original name of the place was Bukoaus. Although the National Archives of Opava was not very cooperative, is now considered likely that in the local certificate of Bukovany near Olomouc is the Speech. Is still not clear, which is named in the deed of 1201 Bukovany. It identifies at Opava in addition to ambiguous place names Tvrdoměřice, Bukovany, Valentiny, Žirákovice, Opatovice and Žiročice nor the villages Tážaly, Náklo and Bohuňovice near Olomouc and other three. Zlámal who concerned himself from 1982 to the clarification of this issue, died in 1984 during his research. Further research by the director of the district archive Hodonín, Jiří Mráka, also remained inconclusive in 1991.

The Hradisko Bukovany held until after 1350. Subsequently the estate was passed on to various tenants. In 1539 the monastery Bukovany sold together with the city Kyjov to the Moravian provincial marshal Jan Kuna of Kunštát, who died a year later. Subsequent owners was January Kropáč of Nevědomí. On January 22, 1548 Kyjov bought with Bukovany free from the subjection. Thus, the formerly free Good Bukovany 1548-1785 the royal city Kyjov was submissive. Since 1553 the new post link from Gaya led to Brno via Bukovany. From 1561 to 1562 the stones were for the construction of the town hall in Kyjov broken in the Skaly at Bukovany, as from 1567 for the construction of the city gates. From 1581 the quarries provided in Bukovany and Vřesovice the material for the construction of the fortification of Kyjov. In 1605 the village was devastated by the accretion of the Transylvanian rebels under Stephen Bocskai. 1623 fell under Hungarian insurgents Gábor Bethlen in Bukovany. In 1656 the village consisted of 37 properties, of which 28 were managed, eight being restored and a desolate. It is assumed that at this time had Bukonavy about 144 people. 1678 the village was then looted by the kuruc and five years by the Turks. After the city Kyjov had bought Kelčany 1666, the residents of Bukovany had to serve their compulsory labor in the vineyards of Kelčany. Carried out during the tenure of Mayor Daniel Kyjov Polanský 1693-1714 a tightening of Fronpflichten. The residents of Bukovany refused to pay the increased of Polanský because of an incorrect type of soil is 30 to 45 guilders per year taxes and the community and its inhabitants led a number, but futile complaints. In 1728 the tax liability of Bukovany had grown to 750 guilders. The Mayor Edmund Anton Wendorf left the country of his main adversary Petr Horáček move in and set him briefly. By means of the imposition of corporal punishment reached Wendorf that all debtors had paid their arrears of taxes to 18 October 1731. Horáček was then a beggar and died in 1741. According to other entries of the people against the false tax these were declared on July 17, 1777 for unlawfully. The remains of the forests around Bukovany 1740 were cleared to create grazing land for sheep farming. 1752 was a post in Gaya collection, which replaced the previous Erbpost. 1763 lived in 72 houses in the village 325 people. After Emperor Joseph II had issued the patent on the abolition of serfdom on 1 November 1781, it took until June 28, 1785 before the magistrate of Gaya realized this. In 1834 Bukovany had 608 inhabitants. By the middle of the 19th century the city remained Bukovany Gaya submissive.

After the abolition of patrimonial Bukovany / Bukowann formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Gaya. After the abolition of Okres Kyjov the place in 1960 associated with the Okres Hodonín. In 1961 the village with 893 inhabitants, is the largest population in its history. Between 1980 and 1990 Nechvalín was incorporated. Since 2004 Bukovany leads a coat of arms and banners.

Community structure

For the community Bukovany no districts are reported. Bukovany consisting of the local documents Dědina, Dolni Konec, Hřiska, Močidlo, Nivy and Zahrádky.

Attractions

• Chapel
• Lookout tower Bukovanský Mlýn, west of the village on the road to Ostrovánky, who built a replica of a windmill by Josef Kouřil from Kyjov 15 meters high building was completed in 2004. The fireplace room on the ground floor serves as a sample chamber of the male choir. On the first floor there is an exhibition space for art, paintings and ceramics, the second floor houses an exhibition on the history and life in Bukovany. It is the view of levels. In 2007 was built around the Bukovanský Mlýn a complex with a hotel, a restaurant, wine cellar, rotunda and four Slovak Chaluppen.
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, the village green in the Dědina
• Modern sculpture Sacred Urban
• Chapel of St. niche. Anna, north of the village, built in 1995 on the site of a wooden Heiligenbildchens on dirt road to Bučovice