Jindřichov (Přerov District)

Jindřichov ( German Heinrich Forest) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers north Hranicky and belongs to Okres Přerov.

Geography

Jindřichov is located in the south of the Oder Mountains. The Waldhufendorf extends over a length of three kilometers along the creek Luha. To the north rises the hill Varta ( Heinrich Walder mountain, 590 m).

Neighboring towns are Spálov in the north, Dobešov in the northeast, Veseli in the east, in the southeast Nejdek, Střítež nad Ludinou in the south, Partutovice in the southwest and Hilbrovice and Heltínov in the northwest.

History

The village was established at the transition from the 12th and 13th centuries during the colonization of the areas north and northeast Hranicky by the Benedictine Rajhrad. The place was according to tradition after his locator Heinrich, a Köhler, who are said to have founded with his brothers Bartholomew and Dobesch the villages Partutovice and Dobešov when Henry called forest. Another legend is as a patron of a local named Heinrich Vogt on previously to the village Dlouhá Ves ( Langendorf ) have been called.

The first written record dates from 1499.

After the abolition of patrimonial Jindřichov was / Heinrich forest in 1850 into an independent municipality in the district team Moravian white churches. After the Munich Agreement in the community on October 1, 1938, is together with the majority of Czechs also inhabited villages Střítež nad Ludinou / Ohrnsdorf, Partutovice / Bartelsdorf, Luboměř / Laudmer, Spálov / Sponau and Heltínov / Joke village of the German Reich. After negotiations Jindřichov was as well Partutovice and Střítež nad Ludinou returned on 21 November 1938 at Czechoslovakia. In the course of municipal reform of 1960 and the dissolution of the Okres Hranice Jindřichov was to January 1, 1961 assigned to the Okres Přerov. Since 1995, the municipality Jindřichov leads a coat of arms and banners.

Community structure

For the community Jindřichov no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Church of the Assumption, built in 1752 in place of the hl. John the Baptist chapel consecrated
• Rectory, built in 1802, today the seat of the commune office
• Chapel of St.. Theresa
• Chapel of St. Wenzel
• Baroque statue of St.. John of Nepomuk, built in 1802