Velká Lhota

Velka Lhota ( German United Lhota, former United Lhotta ) is a municipality in the Moravian Wallachia in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers south-east of Valašské Meziříčí and belongs to Okres Vsetín.

Geography

Velka Lhota extends to the west of Wsetiner mountain country at the headwaters of the creek Dědinský creek in a hillside 540-360 m nm East of the U Javora rises (573 m), in the southeast of Ostry vrch ( 672 m ) south of the Klenov ( 678 m) and the Štípa (706 m) in the southwest of Zádrhlov (572 m) and the Medůvka (608 m ) and in the west the Vrchhůra ( 692 m). South of the village lies in the valley of the Bystřička Reservoir Bystřička. To the east lies the protected landscape area Beskydy PLA.

Neighboring towns are V Sojově, Vesela, Dolansko and Střítež nad Bečvou in the north, Vidče in the northeast, Střítežské Paseky Videčské Paseky V Javoří and Fatůrky in the east, Paseky U Pavlů and U Maliku the southeast, Darebňa, U Urbanů and U přehrady in south, Pohořeliska, Páleniska and Kozinec the southwest, Malá Lhota in the west and Vichury, Sýkoří, Hrachovec and Na pasekách in the northwest.

History

The site was created as Waldhufendorf and probably arose during the German colonization. The first written mention of the village belonging to the reign Krasno Lhota was 1374th Since 1411 Stachowa Lhota the reign Rožnov was submissive. In 1505 the village as Lukanowa Lhota, 1535 as ves Lukaniowu Lhotu or Lukanova Lhota and 1594 Chmelowa Lhota or Chmelová Lhota was called. In 1516 the village consisted of a bailiff and six economies, one of which was desolate. During the Thirty Years' War, the inhabitants of Chmelová Lhota, led by Vogt Vantucha on the Wallachian uprising involved. The present name Velka Lhota is the first time in 1635 demonstrated. In hooves register of 1675 the Bailiwick, eight economies and 17 Chaluppen are demonstrated for large Lhota. In the land register of 1775 Vogt, five Ganzhüfner, two Halbhüfner and 39 cottagers are listed. In 1834 the city had 517 inhabitants. Residents living from agriculture, especially livestock and built in home office wooden agricultural utensils, sticks, brooms and pearl pipes. From 1846 onwards the place name Hrubá Lhota was common. Until the mid- 19th century the village was always subservient to Rožnov.

After the abolition of patrimonial Hrubá Lhota / Great Lhotta formed in 1849 a municipality in the district team Valašské Meziříčí. In the same year a school was established in a rented room in the upper part of the village, before the lessons were held in Vesela. 1857 the municipality bought a Chaluppe and built this to get to school. After 1868 in the Malá Bystřice related to resettlement V Okluce a Protestant school was created, the Protestant children were from Hrubá Lhota get retrained until its closure in 1883. Since 1872, the municipality bears the name Velka Lhota. 1895 the school moved into a new school building. South Between 1907 and 1912 the village was built the dam at the Bystřička, which should serve to supply water to the projected Danube -Oder-Elbe Canal. Velka Lhota had 1910 590 inhabitants in the year. 1921 opened a school in the settlement Expositur U Pavlů. In 1935, the volunteer fire department founded.

After the abolition of Okres Valašské Meziříčí the community in 1960 associated with the Okres Vsetín. 1970 lived in 98 houses of Velka Lhota 395 people. The schools in Velka Lhota and U Pavlů were closed in 1977. Since then, the children of Velka Lhota are taught in Valašské Meziříčí; the lessons for the previously enrolled after U Pavlů children from the Paseken in the southeastern municipality carried out since then in Wallachian Bystřice. In 1980, Malá Lhota was incorporated.

The district Velka Lhota has an area of ​​709 ha in 1991 were living in the 89 houses of the hamlet Velka Lhota 324 people. The former school in Velka Lhota was rebuilt in the 1990s, the municipal office. On 1 March 2001 115 houses and 315 inhabitants were counted in Velka Lhota, throughout the community lived 406 people. Denominational include this majority to form the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. Catholic vicarage is Vesela.

Community structure

The municipality Velka Lhota consists of the districts Malá Lhota (small Lhota ) and Velka Lhota (Great Lhota ) and the settlements Darebňa, Kozinec, Na Kopečku, Na Rovni, Paseky Maliku U, U Pavlů, U přehrady and part of Fatůrky.

Attractions

• Protestant church in Velka Lhota tolerance, the towerless, shingled and simple timber originated in 1783. The interior dates from the year 1839. The church is unheated and has no artificial lighting.
• Memorial to Jan Karafiát at the rectory
• Timbered bell tower in Malá Lhota, the 1687 cast bell was sold in 1689 to the Church in Vesela. 1870 came the bell back to Malá Lhota.
• The reservoir Bystřička (Czech: " Vodní nádrž Bystřička " or simply " prehrada ") on the same mountain river, recreation area and flood protection.
• Sandstone cliffs Medůvka, on the same mountain
• 35 m high radio tower on the Vrchhůra

Personalities

• The writer Jan Karafiát worked from 1875 to 1895 as pastor of the Church of tolerance.