Kámen (Děčín District)

Kámen ( German Heidenstein ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers north-east of Decin and belongs to Okres Decin.

Geography

The Kámen is located on a plateau in the south of the Bohemian Switzerland. To the north lies the creek from Bynovecký ( bins villages Bach) formed Felsental Vřesová dolina ( Heide reason). In the north- east rises the Bynovecký vrch ( Scraper mountain, 412 m ) southeast of the Popovičský vrch ( Popp mountain, 527 m), in the southwest of the Elbe valley sloping Růžový hřeben (Rose Crest) with the Spálenisko ( 391 m) and the Růžová vyhlidka (rose comb prospect 432 m ) and northwest of the Kamenský vrch (Hain Hubel, 432.5 m).

Neighboring towns are Bynovec, Novy Svet and Růžová in the north, Srbská KAMENICE in the Northeast, Nova Oleška and Stara Oleška in the east, in the southeast Huntířov, Ludvíkovice in the south, Loubí in the southwest and Prostřední Žleb and Podskalí in the West.

History

At the site of the present village was probably founded in the mid-13th century on the path forks of the Lusatian sidewalk and the Bohemian street by the rule Scharfstein a small party, which was connected a Grange. By Count Thun- Hohenstein Tetschen a settlement was established on the northern corridor of the Meier farm Heidenstein in the years 1737-1739, which was initially referred to as Heidenstein Dörfl or Neuheidenstein. The site was created as a little village, whose houses were built almost entirely gable side to the street. 1787 were in Neuheidenstein 40 houses. The Grange became extinct at the end of the 18th century and the place took its name. 1833 lived 341 people in 58 houses of Heidenstein.

After the abolition of patrimonial Heidenstein formed in 1850 a part of the community Loos village in the district team Tetschen / Decin. 1890 lived in Heidenstein 359 people, in 1910 there were 336 on the grove Hubel an inn was built in 1901 with a 20 m high observation tower, but which in 1908 burned down under suspicious circumstances. 1930, Heidenstein 236 inhabitants. After the Munich Agreement in 1938 Heidenstein slammed together with the German Reich and Loos village belonged until 1945 to the district Tetschen, from 1943 Děčín. After the end of the Second World War, the village came back to Czechoslovakia. The German inhabitants were expelled to 1946 and in 1947 renamed the place Kámen. 1980 Kámen was incorporated along with Ludvíkovice by Decin, where the place until 1991, the District Decin XXX Kámen formed. Since 1 January 1992 Kámen is a municipality and was the first time in its history on its own.

Attractions

• Vřesová dolina, Sandsteinfelsental and climbing area
• Slunečná brána ( Sun Gate ), rock arch at the foot of Kamenský vrch, west of the village
• Hřeben Růžový