KovaÄ (JiÄÃn District)
Kovač ( German Kowatsch ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 10 kilometers south-east of Jičín and belongs to Okres Jičín.
Geography
The street village Kovač extends along the creek Lužanka west of Horschitzer sandstone ridge in the Bergland Jičínská pahorkatina within the North Bohemian tableland. South of the town runs the railway line Hradec Králové - Jičín, at the same station is Kovač.
Neighboring towns are Lužany and KAMENICE in the north, Konecchlumí in the northeast, Podhorní Újezd a Vojice in the east, and Sobčice Kabaty the southeast, Třtěnice in the south, Vrbice the southwest, Butoves and TUR in the west and Kacákova Lhota and Řeheč in the northwest.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1318 as the property of Ota of Byšice documented. 1422 the village belonged January Satlo of Kovač. The Satlo family of Kovač held possession for nearly a century. Of them acquired in 1513 Matěj Libák Radovesice of the parties and the place. Subsequent owners were the gender of Bilsky Kařišov and Jilemnický of Újezdec and Kounice. 1584 bought Jaroslav Smiřický of Smiřice Kovač. Two years later the Kovačer goods were connected as a common possession of the brothers Zikmund, Jaroslav, Ladislav and Albrecht Smiřický to the goods in Úlibice.
After the Battle of White Mountain, the goods of Smiřický were confiscated and handed over to Albrecht von Wallenstein. 1636 went Kovač as the hereditary possession of Rudolf von Tiefenbach over. Tiefenbach, who remained childless sat, Norbert von Sternberg appointed heir of all possessions after the death of his widow in his will. 1710 bought Johann Joseph von Trauttmansdorff the rule Úlibice. The Count Trauttmansdorff united the gentry and Kumburk Úlibice to rule Kumburk - Úlibice.
1804 was built south of the village the Zlodějek - mill, milled especially for the residents of Kovač and Lužany. After the abolition of patrimonial Kováč was how the place at that time was written in 1850 to a municipality with 202 inhabitants in Okres Jičín. 1880, the site had reached 361 residents with its largest population. Karl von Trauttmansdorff left in 1895 to build a farm and used the forests around Kovač as a hunting ground.
After the Second World War, the Count Trauttmansdorff were expropriated. The Zlodějek - mill, the last owner František Spigl was, fell into disuse after 1945. Today only ruins exist. In 1961, the annexation to Konecchlumí, since November 24, 1990 Kovač again forms a separate municipality.
Community structure
For the community Kovač no districts are reported.
Attractions
- Belfry in the village square
- Sandstone statue of St. Isidore, the village square, built in 1737
- Sandstone statue of St. Charles Borromeo at the western exit after Butoves
- Baroque Marian chapel from 1727, east of the village on a hilltop on the way to Konecchlumí
- Baroque sandstone crucifix, southeast of Kovač on the way to Kabaty, built in 1770
- Nature Reserve Kovačská bažantnice, north of the village