Habry

Habry ( German shareholders, older even Hubern ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is situated 18 km south-east of Čáslav at the Sázavka and belongs to Okres Havlíčkův Brod.

Geography

Habry located in the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands at the origin of Sázavka that arises in Haberský fishpond on the southeast edge. Through the city's state roads lead 38 between Čáslav and Havlíčkův Brod, between 346 and Chotěboř Leština u Světlé and 347 by Svetla nad Sázavou.

Neighboring towns are Frýdnava in the north, Rybníček in the northeast, Leskovice in the east, Miřátky and Proseč the southeast, Kámen, Nový Dvůr and Knez in the south, Bačkov the southwest, Dolni Mlýn, Lubno, Kysibl and Chrtníč in the west and Kobylí Hlava in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of Habry was made in 1101 by Cosmas of Prague in the Chronica Boemorum. It is reported that Ulrich of Brno with his troops marched through the town to Prague there to enforce his claim to the throne. The place on Haberner riser, the main connection from Prague via Deutschbrod to Moravia was 1351 done by Charles IV as a market town, and received a coat of arms.

1835 was the application of a local chronicle. After the replacement of patrimonial shareholders in 1850 became the seat of a district court in the political district Czaslau. At that time, 2,136 people lived in the market town. In 1909, shareholders received city rights. But already at that time the town's importance declined, as no major company settled because of the lack of railway connection.

After the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the city lost by the abolition of the tax office and after the Second World War by the abolition of the District Court as part of the Košice program its functions as a regional center and sank into insignificance. Habry 1950 had 1,145 inhabitants and after the loss of civic rights, the shift was more authorities from the site. Since 1990 Habry is a city again; The building control department and registrar's office returned to the city.

Local structure

The city Habry consists of the districts Frýdnava ( Friedenau ) Habry ( shareholders ), Lubno and Zboží ( Sbosch ).

Attractions

• Church of the Assumption, baroque building of 1678 in place of a Romanesque earlier building of 1384
• , Used Habry castle, built in 1718 after the Second World War until 1992 as a school
• Zizka stone table on the hill Táborec (515 m)
• Former synagogue, built in 1825 and remodeled in 1979 to the cinema
• Jewish cemetery, west of the city
• Birch Avenue near Kysibl
• Castle Zboží

Sons and daughters of the town

In Habry were born ( in chronological order ):

• František Chleborád (1839-1911), Czech labor leaders
• Josef Reiter (1840-1903), designer and builder of Palackého most in Prague
• Adolf Stransky (1855-1931), politician and publisher, founder of the Lidové noviny
• Karl Ullmann (1860-1940), Austrian dermatologist and toxicologist