Jenišovice (Chrudim District)

Jenišovice ( German Jenschowitz ) is a municipality in Okres Chrudim, Czech Republic. It lies on the River Novohradka and has 431 inhabitants (as of 28 August 2006).

History

The village was in 1088 as Jani Schofield joke ( Janišovice ) first mentioned, as Vratislav II gave the city the cathedral chapter of Saints Peter and Paul at Vyšehrad. The donation was in 1130 confirmed by Soběslav I.. Around 1350 the local Gothic Church of the Holy Trinity was completed. The parish was affiliated to the Diocese Litomyšl.

In the 14th century the village went to the castle Košumberk, which was owned by the noble family of Slavata Chlum and Košumberk, who held it until the uprising. After the suppression of the revolt of the place belonged to the confiscated assets of the deceased shortly before Diwisch Lacembok. Wilhelm Slavata, unlike other family members and Bohemian Catholic statesman who bought the place again. After his death, his two year old daughter Johanna Barbara inherited his fortune, which it was taken after the death of her mother Maria Eva Maximilana year. She and her daughter Frances Theresa was the belief of the Jesuits inclined, 1690 the place was inherited.

After the dissolution of the Order initially managed the Church fund whose assets. 1807 Jenschowitz was sold to the Belgian nobleman Leopold de Laing, twenty years later acquired Karl Maximilian Graf von Thurn und Taxis the lands, his heirs kept the place until 1922.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the five districts Jenišovice Jenišovice, Marti Nice, Zalažany, Štěnec, and Mravín.

Attractions

• Church of the Holy Trinity ( Nejsvětější Trojice ), built before 1350