Rataje (Tábor District)

Rataje ( German Rattai, formerly Ratay ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers north of Bechyně in South Bohemia and belongs to Okres Tábor.

Geography

Rataje is located on the right bank of the Smutná in Bechyně hills ( Bechyňská pahorkatina ). Against the southwest extends the natural park Plziny, in the Jahodinská collected ( 489 m).

Neighboring towns are U Pohodnice, Popovec, Zběšičky and Srlín in the north, Bezinky, Stare Saddleback and Kozin in the northwest, Ovčín, Krida, Liska and Papírna in the east, Dobronice u Bechyně, Větrov and Haškovcová Lhota in the southeast, U Viktorů and Radětice in the south, Soví, Na Pohodnici, Nepomuk and Karlov in the southwest, Borovany, Svatá Rozalie and Bílinka in the west and Zběšice in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of Rataje took place in a papal tithe directory of the Dean Bechyně for the years 1352-1405. In the 14th century the village was divided between several landlords. Owner of the festivals were in 1360 Petr Stolice of Rataje and his son Jan were in the years 1368 to 1369 it belonged to John of Podol who called himself also Ješek Švenkl of Vršovice. The other unit with a Vorwerkshof and two Kretschen had Purkart or pure of Rataje ( † before 1385 ). Both shared the church patronage. Jan's sons Ones and Beneš of Podol pledged the associated with the estate Podolí Podoler share for a debt from 2000 groses to Johann von Rosenberg. Owner of the other, as Rakover share designated part was from January 1385 Stolice of Rataje, who also owned the Vorwerkshof Rakov. 1395 acquired by Bohuslav Hradek or Hradnice the Rakover share. Together with the Good Podolí acquired Johann Bechinie of Lazan 1440-1445 Podoler the proportion of Rataje. After the parish - probably during the Hussite wars - was extinguished, the church was a Lokalie the Dechanteikirche Bechyně. In the division of an estate between the three sons of Johann Bechinie, received Burian Bechinie of Lazan 1477 the rule Bechyně. In this common as accessories including the desert festivals Podolí with Vorwerk, the village and a mill at Podolí, the villages Rakov and Borovany, the desert village of Lhota, half of the town Bernartice with the church patronage and the Vorwerkshof Rataje including Kmetenhöfen ( dvory kmetcí ) mentioned. In 1594, Peter sold Bechinie of Lazan Rataje to Christoph Haslauer Haslau. He owned three-quarters of the good Dobronitz and was built in Rataje as his residence a castle. According to the 1616 written last will Christoph Haslauers his property should be divided among his six sons. As Haslauer died in 1618, the Thirty Years War had broken out and the intended heir of Rataje, Henry the Elder. Haslauer already fallen during the uprising of the Estates. The inheritance was shared with his younger brothers, Henry the Younger, Johann the Younger, Adam Younger, Georg and Wenzel Haslauer who sold the property Rataje with the village Zběšice 1618 her brother. This purchase closed during the uprising, however, had not yet achieved any legal effect by entry in the country table. The confiscation commission set up after the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 sentenced the brothers Heinrich and Johann the Younger Younger Haslauer to the loss of one third of their property. The landtäflische Good Ratay with the castle, the Vorwerkshof, two farmers, cottagers two and three subjects in Kozin was confiscated. The royal chamber sold the estate for 6000 then shock to Adam Count von Sternberg, who united it with his rule Bechyně. After Johann Joseph were drowned out by Sternberg and his wife Marie Violanta Teresia Preysing and the three year old daughter Marie Violanta on June 13, 1700 on his way home from a visit to the Chapel of Mercy Altötting in Passau the Inn, inherited the one-year Maria Theresa Violanta of Sternberg rule. In 1715 she married Johann Leopold Graf von Paar, owned by his descendants remained the rule then. 1787 a priest was introduced in Ratay by the religious fund again. In 1840 Ratay consisted of 53 houses with 404 inhabitants, including two Israelite families. In the village passed under the patronage of the religious fund the Church of St.. Trinity, a Lokalistenhaus and the school as well as the stately Grange. In addition, there was a Ratay dominikalen Hammelhof, a dominikale Salpetersiederei, a dominikale Pottaschensiederei, a tavern and a two-speed mill with sawmill. Ratay was parish and school location for Altsattel, Dobronitz, Kozin and the mill Wiktora. Until the mid-19th century Ratay remained subservient always Bechyně.

After the abolition of patrimonial Rataje / Ratay formed in 1850 with the district Kozin a municipality in the district team Milevsko / Mulhouse and the jurisdiction Bechyně / Bechyně. After the dissolution of Okres Milevsko the community was associated with the Okres Tábor end of 1960. 1964 Haškovcová Lhota was incorporated. After a referendum Haškovcová Lhota sparked November 24 again in 1990 by Rataje off and formed its own community.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Rataje Kozin ( Kosin ) and Rataje ( Rattai ) and the monolayer Ovčín.

Attractions

• Gothic parish church of St. Trinity, it was remodeled in the baroque 18th century. In the church, the grave stones of Veit Haas ( Vit Ház ) of Zrzawa and Stahletz are († 1518), the Albrecht Haas of Zrzawa and Stahletz († 1532 and Ursula Haslauer of Witzthum, New Schumburg and Dobronitz († 1615).
• Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, built in 1916
• Cross the village square
• Cholera Cemetery, north of the village, it was used in the years 1867 and 1868
• Plaque at the birthplace of Karel January Hraše
• Gable farms in South Bohemian folk Baroque style
• Postal Na vraníku
• Sopečný mohylník, grave hill southeast of the village

Sons and daughters of the town

• Karel January Hraše (1840-1907), educator, writer, historian and archaeologist; Founder of the City Museum in Náchod, he also used the pseudonym January Smutný
• Bohdan Kline Berger (1859-1928), lawyer and journalist, he published under the pseudonym Antonín Rataj
• Joseph Fuka (1907-1992), physicist and professor at Palacký University Olomouc