Ždírec () is a municipality and village in

Jihlava District Jihlava District () is a district in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Jihlava. Administrative division Jihlava District is divided into two administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence ...

in the

Vysočina Region The Vysočina Region (; ) is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Jihlava. The region is located in the central part of the country. It is one of just three in the country (the others being Prague and the Central Boh ...

of the

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. It has about 400 inhabitants.

Geography

Ždírec is located about northeast of

Jihlava Jihlava (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava (river), Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihla ...

. It lies in the

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. The highest point is at above sea level. The stream Ždírecký potok flows through the municipality. The stream supplies several small fishponds. The upper course of the

Šlapanka The Šlapanka is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Sázava (river), Sázava River. It flows through the Vysočina Region. It is long. Etymology The river is named after the village of Šlapanov, located on the middle course o ...

River crosses the municipal territory in the east.

History

The first written mention of Ždírec is from 1233. From the 13th century until 1945 Ždírec was ethnically a German village. It belonged to the German-speaking

enclave An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is so ...

called Jihlava Language Island. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the Germans were expelled and the municipality was resettled by

Czechs The Czechs (, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common Bohemia ...

Demographics

Transport

There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights

The main landmark of Ždírec is the Church of Saint Wenceslaus. It was built in the pseudo-Gothic style in 1893–1898, after the old church was destroyed by a fire in 1890. It became protected as a cultural monument in 1958. Other sights include a Baroque sculptural group of Saint

John of Nepomuk John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (; ; ) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia (a western part of what is now the Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts st ...

from 1743, a Baroque statue of Saint

Anthony of Padua Anthony of Padua, Order of Friars Minor, OFM, (; ; ) or Anthony of Lisbon (; ; ; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. ...

from 1753, and the building of retirement home from 1926 with the Chapel of the Virgin Mary.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zdirec Villages in Jihlava District