Dobřív is a municipality and village in

Rokycany District Rokycany District () is a district in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Rokycany. Administrative division Rokycany District is formed by only one administrative district of municipality with extended competence: ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,400 inhabitants. The municipality is known for its unique hammer mill. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as a village monument zone.

Administrative division

Dobřív consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Dobřív (1,053) *Pavlovsko (244)

Geography

Dobřív is located about southeast of

Rokycany Rokycany (; ) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 14,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Admini ...

and east of

Plzeň Plzeň (), also known in English and German as Pilsen (), is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 188,000 inhabitants. It is located about west of P ...

. It lies in the Brdy Highlands. The highest point is the Žďár hill at . The eastern part of the municipal territory belongs to the Brdy Protected Landscape Area and includes several other hills with an altitude of more than 600 m. The Klabava River flows through the municipality.

History

The first written mention of Dobřív is from 1325.

Demographics

Transport

The railway line

–

Příkosice Příkosice is a municipality and village in Rokycany District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. Příkosice lies approximately south-east of Rokycany, south-east of Plzeň, and south-west of Prague ...

passes through the western part of the municipality, but there is no train station. The municipality is served by the station in neighbouring Mirošov.

Sights

Dobřív is known for its hammer mill, which is a very rare example of a fully functioning water powered forge. The earliest record of a smelter is Dobřív is from 1505 and existence of hammer mills is proven since 1614. For its value, the hammer mill is protected as a national cultural monument. Swedish Stone Bridge is a technical monument from the 17th century. It has one seven-metre arch with a height of 4 metres. On the bridge is a statue of a woman, which is probably

Saint Barbara Saint Barbara (; ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an Early Christianity, early Christian Greek saint and martyr. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the origin ...

, and in front of the bridge is a statue of St.

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 the 18th century.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dobriv Villages in Rokycany District