Lhota Rapotina
Lhota Rapotina ( German Lhota Rapotin ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers southwest of Boskovice and belongs to Okres Blansko.
Geography
Lhota Rapotina is on the left of the Svitava in the west of the country near the Drahany Bosko brázda. The village lies in the gorge cut by the Svitava Drahany land below the confluence of Bela. To the north rises the Rovna (446 m ) east of the Faberka ( 445 m). At the western edge of the railway Brno passes by Letovice, the nearest train station is in Skalice nad Svitavou.
Neighboring towns are Mladkov in the north, Boskovice in the northeast, Újezd u Boskovic in the east, in the southeast Kuničky, Doubravice nad Svitavou and Klemov in the south, Obora in the southwest, Jabloňany in the west and Skalice nad Svitavou in the northwest.
History
Lhota Rapotina was founded in the 12th century during the colonization of the dense forests of the Drahany country. The corresponding rule for Boskovice village was one of the numerous established after Lhotensystem villages whose settlers were exempt for a certain period of royalties and services to the authorities. The first documentary mention of the place was in 1364 during the sale a farm in the village by Ulrich von Boskowitz to Bertlém Lhota Rapotina. In the 14th and 15th centuries the term Lhota při potoku Bela ( Lhota under Biela Bach) was common. It is not clear the origin of the epithet Rapotina, he is the one interpreted as Lokatorname Rapoty, on the other hand, a Celtic origin of the word is considered possible. The village was the seat of Vladikengeschlechts Lhota Rapotina and later had various owners.
The Dietrichsteiner on Boskovice left in 1833 to build a small hunting lodge that was exploited in the second half of the 19th century as a forester's house.
Attractions
- Church of St. Lawrence
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
- Ex-hunting lodge Lhota Rapotina
- Fountain