Rovečné

Rovečné ( German Rowetschin ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers north-west of Olešnice and belongs to Okres Zdar nad Sázavou.

Geography

Rovečné is located in a creek traversed by Tresný valley in the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands. The Moravian village is located south of the historic border between Moravia and Bohemia. To the north rises the Kamenec ( 698 m), in the southeast of Dolni Kopec (611 m ) west of the Bukovec (707 m) and in the northwest of Horni les (Upper Forest, 774 m).

Neighboring towns are Nyklovice in the north, and Hlásnice Trpín in the northeast, Velké Tresné in the east, Malé Tresné the southeast, Bolesin in the south, and Vestin Věstínek in the southwest, and Chlum Korouhvice in the west and Dudkovice, Polom and Sulkovec in the northwest.

History

The village was created in the course of the colonization of the border forests between Moravia and Bohemia. It was first documented in 1335, the city brought in as a sister Jeruše Ausperg of the Augustinian convent Doubravník. After the destruction of the monastery by the Hussites Rovečné came back to the Lords of Pernštejna. 1590 Rovečné was sold along with eleven other villages in the area and connected to the rule Kunstadt to which it belonged until 1848. After Josephine tolerance patent was in 1784 a Protestant house of worship and cemetery. 1785 also opened a Protestant school. The Protestant community was gepfarrt first to Prosetín 1812 and received its own pastor. In addition to the house of prayer, a new evangelical school house was erected in 1825, which served as a Protestant parish from 1882 to 1947.

After the abolition of patrimonial Rověčín formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Boskovice. Since 1921, the community name is used Rovečné. In 1949 the congregation to Okres Bystřice nad Pernštejnem. In 1961, Malé Tresné and Velké Tresné incorporated and assigned the community the Okres Zdar nad Sázavou. 1973 were still Vestin and Věstínek and 1976 Nyklovice added as districts. The incorporated villages decided to Malé on Tresné from 1990 again successively for independence.

Local structure

The municipality consists of the villages Rovečné Malé Tresné (small Tresna ) and Rovečné ( Rowetschin ) and the monolayer Dudkovice.

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St. Martin, the single-nave building was erected in 1721 on the initiative of Karl von Lamberg, which the predecessor proved to be too small. The diocese of the Catholic Church includes the villages Rovečné, Vir, Velké Tresné, Malé Tresné, Vestin and Věstínek.
• Evangelical Church, built 1897-1898 in place of the prayer house
• Horni les with lookout tower
• Memorial to the victims of the First World War with bust of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, in the village square

Sons and daughters of the town

• Antonín Fleischer (1850-1934), entomologist
• Jindřiška Wurmova (1863-1953), pacifist and writer, sister of Antonín Fleischer