Nová Ves u Bakova

Nová Ves u Bakova is a municipality with 232 inhabitants in Okres Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. It is located on the edge of the former military training area Ralsko. A part of the common land is a nature reserve.

Geography

The village lies in the valley of the Jizera between Bakov nad Jizerou and Ptýrov. The municipality covers 367 hectares, 247 of which are covered with forest. The village flows the small river Bela, which flows about a kilometer further south in the Jizera.

History

The prehistoric settlement on the territory of the municipality documenting seven urn fields from the late Bronze Age, discovered the archaeologist Eduard Štorch in studies of the region in 1908. From the late Iron Age, a single grave is known.

The settlement site, however, was apparently abandoned. Today's Nová Ves is a start-up of the Lords of Zvířetice from the second half of the 16th century, the first written record comes from the year 1608. Residents were the lords of the nearby castle Zvířetice to compulsory labor in management of fish ponds and the mill in neighboring Malá Bela committed. In the Thirty Years' War, the village came into the possession of the family of the Waldstein. By the end of the 20th century it was the city Bakov nad Jizerou belonging. Since 1990 Nová Ves is an independent municipality.

Attractions

A large part of its territory is occupied by the forest Lovotín. It is the easternmost extension of a contiguous forest area which spreads on the site of the former military restricted area Ralsko and extends continuously up to the 30 km northwest distant city Mimoň. The forest is used for forestry and hunting. The hunting enclosure combines Lovotín and the neighboring area Klokočka; It is 507 hectares in size and is located in state ownership. The western boundary of the Lovotíner forest forms the valley of the Rokytka. The moist lowland this unregulated stream is provided as a National Natural Monument Rečkov since 1949 under nature protection. The protected area is 3.45 hectares and includes, among other endangered plant species, the largest deposits of the Siberian gold piston ( Ligularia sibirica ) in the Czech Republic from.