Sloup (Blansko District)

Sloupsko is a Městys in the Czech Republic. The sanctuary is located in the Moravian Karst, 7.5 km to the east of Rájec- Jestřebí and belongs to the Okres Blansko on.

Geography

The village is situated in 470 m at the confluence of the streams and Žďárná Luha. In the south of the place the arroyo Pustý begins žleb. The Luha flows into the interior of the karst area, which houses the cave system in the Sloupsko - šošůvské jeskyně. In the cave Kůlna, which is part of this system skull bones were found Neanderthal bones and the cave bear, hyena and the woolly rhinoceros. In addition to numerous caves, sinkholes and fractures are in Sloupsko also striking karst rocks.

The site is dominated by the twin-towered sanctuary of painful Virgin Mary.

Not far is the lined with old linden family cemetery of the Counts of Salm- Reifferscheidt - Raitz.

History

Sloupsko was first mentioned in 1373. 1446 he was in possession of Půta Sovinec on ​​Doubravice and Holstein. 1491 bought Ludmilla of Kunštát, the wife of Vratislaw of Pernštejna village and mill. During the 16th century the family Drnovský of Drnovice, owner of the domain Sloupsko was. 1661 received Johanka of rye village, awarded as the last members of the extinct race Drnovský possession. Their son Johann Christian von Roggendorfstraße, among other things since 1675 Sloupsko possessed was of royal captain of the Brno circuit. Countess Caroline of rye village, had since 1741 owned a mansion Raitz with Sloupsko 1751-1754 on the main village square, a church of the painful Virgin Mary built, which was consecrated in 1754 by the Prince-Bishop of the Archdiocese of Olomouc Ferdinand Julius Troyer. The building was created when after healing of the 25 - year-old daughter of a miller of epilepsy Sloupsko had become a place of pilgrimage for supplicants for mercy healing. After the fire of the castle Raitz Caroline of Roggendorfstraße and minor castle was moved in 1746 after Sloupsko. After her death the inheritance fell to her three sons, who in 1763 for 360,000 guilders to the husband of her sister Theresa, Anton Josef Altgraf sold the ownership of Salm- Reifferscheidt. The family Salm- Reifferscheidt remained until its expropriation in 1945, the owner of the rule and its coat of arms still decorates the coat of arms. 1862 Sloupsko was elevated to town. In 2007 the status was renewed as Městys.