Daňkovice

Daňkovice ( German Danko joke, even Dainkowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located eleven kilometers southwest of Polička and belongs to Okres Zdar nad Sázavou.

Geography

Daňkovice at the southeastern foot of Buchtův Kopec ( Lowenberg, 813 m) in the valley of a left tributary of the Fryšávka in the Saarer mountains. Northeast of the current ( Stromberg, 771 m) and in the southeast the Rabuňka (722 m) rises.

Neighboring towns are Krasne in the north, and Spělkov Kutiny in the Northeast, U Benešů and Borovnice in the east, and Javorek Jimramovské Paseky the southeast, Líšná in the south, and vrist Sněžné in the southwest, and Blatiny Milovy in the west and Zálesí in the northwest.

History

The village was probably founded by the descendants of Stephen II of Medlov during the colonization of the Moravian border forests of Bohemia and belonged to the rule Pernštejna. The first mention of Dankowicz was in 1350, when Filip of Pernštejna sold his property to Jimram of Pernštejna. Since 1483, a judge is detectable in Dankowicz. At the time, the place of seven property. In the division of the reign Pernštejna Daňkovice came in 1500 to Nove Mesto - Ingrowitzer share and from 1564 to 1848 the village was part of the rule Ingrowitz. 1750 consisted of eight Daňkovice peasant farms and 13 cottagers. From this period also dates the oldest recorded town seal. After Josephine Toleranzpatent most of the residents of Dainkowitz occurred after 1782 converted to Protestantism and joined the Reformed Church in Ingrowitz. Between 1785 and 1788 a wooden house of prayer, which in 1818 replaced by a stone building was erected. In 1830 the Protestant branch church moved to the parish in neighboring Niemetzke.

After the abolition of patrimonial Daňkovice formed in 1850 a municipality in the administrative district of Nove Mesto. The municipality had 371 inhabitants and their land included 524 acres of land. The Jewish entrepreneur Emil Haas founded in the 19th century, a rough tailoring, there was also in Daňkovice three brickworks and the inhabitants made with the house weaving an extra income. With the support of the Protestant Church Aid Association Basel dates from the early 20th century a separate parish, the 1904 split from Niemetzke. In 1905 the branch was Daňkovice parish church was raised.

Opened in 1939 west of the village the children's convalescent home Buchtův Kopec. After the German occupation of the sanatorium was occupied by the Wehrmacht and converted to the training center of the Hitler Youth. Between 1944 and 1945, was operating in the area, the guerrilla army, Yermak. On May 10, 1945, there was a shootout between partisans and the Wehrmacht. After the end of World War II in the sanatorium was a TB sanatorium, which is now connected as a sanatorium for lung diseases and long-term therapy the hospital Nové Město na Moravě. The coarse tailor made ​​1947 the operation. 1949 Daňkovice was assigned to the Okres Zdar nad Sázavou. 1973 burning of the rectory. Kopec On the Buchtův an air navigation facility was built in 1970. 1980, the annexation to Sněžné. Since 1990, the community is Daňkovice again.

Community structure

For the community Daňkovice no districts are reported. To Daňkovice heard the sanatorium Buchtův Kopec, which creates its own Katastralbezirk.

Attractions

• Church of Czech Brethren, built in 1818 as a church of the Reformed church, and in 1905 a parish church. Since 2000, the pastorate is vacant and is managed by the parish priest from Sněžné.
• Cemetery
• Evangelical parsonage, built in 1908 by architect Jan Veselský from Polička
• Two protected Linden Summer of 21 and 23 m height
• Remains of the castle Starkov also Stařechovice or Skály called, southeast of the village
• Buchtův Kopec with Baude

Sons and daughters of the town

• Emil Musil Daňkovský (1857-1941), actually Emil Musil, writer