Strachujov
Strachujov ( German Strachojow ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located eleven kilometers north of Bystřice nad Perštejnem and belongs to Okres Zdar nad Sázavou.
Geography
Strachujov is located on the right bank of Svratka at the mouth of the creek Loučka. The village is situated at the southeastern foot of the mountains Saarer. North-east rises the Pavlův Kopec (714 m ) in the east of Šípův vrch (700 m ) south of Na Vrškách ( 638 m) and Panský Kopec ( 672 m) and west of the Loučný Kopec ( 676 m).
Neighboring towns are colony Domky Jimramov and Benátky in the north, Trhonice and Ubušín in the northeast, Zbytov and Unčín in the east, Dalečín the southeast, Velké Janovice in the south, Lísek, colony Marie and Michov the southwest, Spaleny Dvůr, Starkov, Věcov and Jimramovské Pavlovice in the west and Široké poles and Nový Jimramov in the northwest.
History
According to legend, the place should have been created by a missionary Strachota in honor of the Apostles Cyril and Methodius.
It is more likely that the establishment of the village vonPernstein was the Bohemian-Moravian border forest Hvozd in the course of colonization by men. In the colonization of areas along the upper Swarczawa disputes arose between the abbot of the monastery Litomyšl Stephan, who had colonized the Czech share, and Imran Kamen and Pernštejna. To end this, put Ottokar II in 1269 firmly in the exact course of the Bohemian- Moravian border. In this document also limit the Bach Strahwiov was called. This was around the influent at Benátky right into Svratka Trhonický Potok, whose running until 1948 formed the border between Moravia and Bohemia. From the naming of the creek is believed that its name derives from the homonymous village.
For the first time documentary evidence, the village Strachotov in 1360, as Jimram Pernštejna of the Augustinian convent Doubravník promised a sum of two pence from the village every year. William I of Pernštejna overwrote Strachotov 1390 his wife Anežka. In the land register of the rule Pernštejna two residents are listed by name in the time from 1490 to 1500. William II of Pernštejna raised in 1500 to the dispensing requirement for grand wine and freed the subjects in 1515 also from the obligation to gratuitous fish transit services for the rule.
1588 sold John of Pernštejna Strachojov together with the lordships Dalečín and Jimramov to Paul Katharyn of Katharn. This initially made the expanse Dalečín to his seat and left in 1593 to build the Jimramov castle. Peter and Johann Katharyn of Katharn sold it in 1603 to William Dubský of Třebomyslice, who passed it immediately to Jan Dubský of Třebomyslice. Besides Jimramov and Dalečín possessed January Dubský the dominions Pernštejna and Bistrita on Hostein. 1619 are recorded in the land records for Strachojov eleven houses.
After the Battle of White Mountain in 1621 were the estates of the Protestants January Dubský, who had fought on the side of the insurgents, confiscated and sold to Stephan Schmidt von Frey Mayrhofen. Because of indebtedness Schmidt sold his goods to Marie Countess Salm -Neuburg, the wife of Field Marshal Count Heinrich Schlick. He sold the rule Dalečín 1631 Georg / Jíří Březnický Náchod, which she joined in the rule Kunštát. At this time the village consisted of nine property and a Chaluppe. At the end of the Thirty Years' War, the area was ravaged by various forces. Even in 1666 were desolate of the ten grounds of the village six. 1771 consisted of 21 houses and Strachujov had 141 inhabitants. 1790 155 people lived in the village.
After the abolition of patrimonial formed Strachojov 1850 a municipality in the district Nove Mesto. Since the beginning of the 20th century is the community name Strachujov. In 1949 the congregation to Okres Bystřice nad Perštejnem and 1961 Okres Zdar nad Sázavou.
Local structure
For the community Strachujov no districts are reported. To Strachujov heard the settlement Zbytov.
Attractions
- Building in folk architecture