Zdobnice

Zdobnice ( German Stiebnitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers northeast of Rychnov nad Kněžnou in the Eagle Mountains and belongs to Okres Rychnov nad Kněžnou.

Geography

The scattered settlement is below the main ridge in the central part of the Eagle Mountains and spreads in the valley of Zdobnice ( Stiebnitz ) from. North-east rise the Střední vrch (1000 m ) and the Tetřevec ( 1043 m) and to the east of the Kunštátský hřbet ( Kronstadt mountain, 1031 m ) and the Zaklety (990 m). By Zdobnice the state road leads 310 v Rokytnice Orlické Mountains after Destna Orlické Mountains.

Neighboring towns are Malá Zdobnice, Kamenec and Čertův Dul in the north, Orlické Záhoří in the east, Ryse and Ricky Orlické Mountains in the southeast, Pustiny and Souvlastni in the south, Rampuše the southwest, Kunčina Ves and Kačerov in the west and Polanka and Zdobnická Seč in the northwest.

History

The colonization of the valley took place at the beginning of the 16th century by miners and loggers who beat in the woods wood for the Flößung after Kutna Hora. Was first documented Stobnitz in 1550. 1577 the village was sold together with Ricky Orlické Mountains by Emperor Rudolf II and deposited the instrument above the mint Kutna Hora. 1630, the clearing of the forests was completed, and on the deforested land in the valley was the settlement Stobnitz, which was later called Stiebnitz. In the middle of the 17th century a division was made in the two villages large and small Stiebnitz. 1703 Leopold I sold Ritschka and both Stiebnitz including forests Norbert Kolowrat.

From 1850 onwards the villages belonged to the District Commission Senftenberg. Between 1935 and 1938, on the crest of the Eagle Mountains, the construction of bunker lines of the Czechoslovak Walls. After the Munich Agreement, the area was incorporated into the German Reich and was from 1939 to 1945 to the district Grulich. Great Stiebnitz had 1939 888 inhabitants, Small Stiebnitz with vultures digging and Scheithau 260, Kunz village 307, 317 and Katscher Saufloß with Kohlau 240 inhabitants. In the corridors of the community lived before the Second World War, a total of 2348 people who were mostly German. After the Second World War was the expulsion of the German inhabitants. The vacant property were handed over to Wolhynientschechen, but who migrated again.

Since the 1950s, the places were more and more holiday villages, and came the merger of the municipalities Kunčina Ves, Kačerov Souvlastni, Malá Zdobnice and Velka Zdobnice to a community that was named Zdobnice.

Today the town thrives on tourism, and in Velka Zdobnice and Zdobnická Seč several ski lifts are operated in winter.

Community structure

For the community Zdobnice no districts are reported. It consists of the local documents Kunčina Ves ( Kunz village), Kačerov ( Katscher ) Souvlastni ( Saufloß ), Malá Zdobnice, also Zdobnička (small Stiebnitz ) and Velka Zdobnice ( United Stiebnitz ) and the monolayer Čertův Dul ( Geier ditch ) and Zdobnická Seč ( Scheithau ) and the deserted village Kolava ( Kohlau ).

Attractions

  • Kronstadt Chapel ( Kunštátská kaple ) on the ridge trail of the Eagle Mountains in 1037 m. The building was built in 1831 in place of a timbered chapel from 1670.
  • Church of St. Catherine in Kačerov, built in 1798, in 1856 a parish church
  • Church of the Good Shepherd in Velka Zdobnice, built in 1787
  • Church of St. Anne in Kunčina Ves
  • St Mary of the Visitation in Souvlastni

Pictures

The landscape

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