Jestřebí (Česká Lípa District)

Jestřebí ( German Habstein ) is a municipality of Okres Ceska Lipa in the Liberec Region in the north of the Czech Republic. It lies in the valley of the creek Robečský ( Robitzer Bach ) 9 km southeast of Ceska Lipa ( Czech Lipa ) and 6 km north-west of town, ( Hirschberg at the lake).

Through the town performs the highway # 9 of Prague to the German border at Rumburk ( Rumburg ). In the near Provodín (Mike Hahn ) The closest train station Jestřebí u České Lípy on the railway line Bakov nad Jizerou - Ebersbach, the former Bohemian Northern Railway.

History

The castle " Habischenstein " was the ancestral home of the still existing Bohemian- German noble family of Pritzelwitz. From the mid 19th century the village belonged to the district court or to the district Bohemian Bohemian Lipa Lipa.

Community structure

Due Jestřebí municipality consists of the villages Jestřebí ( Habstein ) Pavlovice ( Pablowitz ) and Újezd ​​( Ujesd ), at the same time also form Katastralbezirke. Basic settlement units are Jestřebí Pavlovice, Popelov ( boogers ) and Újezd ​​( Ujesd ). To Jestřebí also the settlements Chvístec ( Quis ), Novy Svet and Podolec include ( Podlitz ).

Attractions

• Above the village is perched on a sandstone rock, the ruins of a rock castle Jestřebí which lies desolate since the 16th century.
• Church of St. Andrew ( tschech. Sv. Ondřej ) from 1780, with separately standing bell tower in the grounds of the cemetery under the castle
• Natural Monument Lysa skala ( Kahlenstein ), a unique rocky mountain north of the village at Provodín
• Umgebindehäuser