Rohozná (Svitavy District)

Rohozná ( German Rohosna ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers southwest of Svitavy and belongs to Okres Svitavy.

Geography

Rohozná extends along the upper reaches of the creek Rohozenský in the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands. To the east of the hill rises Draha ( 647 m).

Neighboring towns are Radiměř in the north, and Banín Lavičné in the east, Vítějeves and Stary Svojanov the southeast, Manova Lhota and Svojanov in the south, Hamry in the southwest, Ctyri Dvory and Dolni Jedlova in the west and Stašov in the northwest.

History

Rohozná was probably founded in the second half of the 13th century, after along the sidewalk Strenitzer first Hlásnice and Stary Svojanov were created and then the valleys were settled. The place was a possession of the castle Svojanov. The town's name comes from the Old Czech word Rogoz ( reeds ) and comes in Slavic in some form or more often before. Secured is the existence of the village since 1349.

Until the 18th century the area was heavily forested and only after 1809 Emmanuel Freiherr von Bartenstein had acquired the dominion of the Count Swojanow Desfours - Walderode, began a concentrated settlement. Bartenstein let the small village, which was until then only at the foot of Draha, extend to the north, and German settlers from Bavaria and Saxony founded the local family documents and new Rohozna, later Stubenberg. This Rohozná grew to the largest village of the district Polička. 1921 lived 2054 people in 308 houses of Rohozná. After the Munich Agreement Stubenberg was separated from Rohozná and to the hamlet of Bohnau in the German district Zwittau. Through the village, the border between the German Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Rohozná was overcrowded since settled expelled from the German territories Czechs at this time. Of 1945, the village of 380 houses and had 2560 inhabitants. After the expulsion of the Germans, the number of inhabitants declined even in 1945 to 1170, as many of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages and to Svitavy in the previously attracted the Germans belonging houses. In 2001 Rohozná had 721 inhabitants.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Manova Rohozná Lhota ( Manslhota ) and Rohozná ( Rohosna ) and the local documents Nová Rohozná ( Stubenberg ) and family.

Attractions

• Expanded Church of St. Erasmus of the 14th century in the 19th century
• Wooden belfry in Nová Rohozná

Sons and daughters of the town

• Bohuslav Brezovský (1912-1976), Swedish actor
• Johann Staud (1882-1939), Austrian politician