The village Sebetov

The village Sebetov is situated in the north-east part of district Blansko and in the south-west bottom of woody hill Rychvald (607m). The earthing cover and fund belong to the area Mala Hana, which is the most fertile part of Blansko´s district. This area is ranked among a place called Boskovicka brazda.
The village Sebetov was founded according to the legend by princess Eufemie or Ofka, a wife of Olomouc´s prince Ota I. Dapper. The legend says that when the princess and her attendance went through our country in her carriage, she admired the beauty of the woody hills and pastures very much. She commanded them to stop and called her leader of a retinue Sebestian, who was called Sebesta by everybody. She asked him to build of a courtyard here, which was later named Sebetov. Sebetov was founded in the end of the 11 century. The oldest historical mention of the village dates back to 1201. The village was in possession of the monastery Hradisko by Olomouc. Sebetov also includes a part called Zabrani (allotment holders used to live here) and a settlement Kapounata, which is situated in down acclivity of a ridge which is called according to the highest hill Mojetin (608m). At first sight your attention will be drawn to two turrets. These belong to a frontage of Sebetov´s chateau. The chateau represents a monumental, renaissance building from the second period of the 16 century. Interier was tidied in 1614 and rearranged to the pseudorenaissance style in 1880. There is created a valuable baroque stucco ornamentation. The origin residence of the monastery in Hradisko was here. Now the chateau is state´s property and isn´t accessible to the public, because the institute for mentaly handicapped women is situated here.
Baron Moric Kingswarter had it built to the present image in 80 years of the last century. The chateau is embosomed with park in spread of 2,7ha with 18 conifers and 62 kinds of leafy trees. They were planted in 30 years of the last century. In 1880 the park was connected with the chateau with the iron arc bridge and very soft native scenery composition was made. You can find quite few precious trees in the park. The one is Tsga canadian……. It´s precious form of horn-beam with deeply lobed leaves, “nahovětvec canadian”, “liliovník tulip-blossomy”, plane maple-leaf, oak great-focund and cultural form of great-blossomy lime tree with irregular cored leaves. The chateau´s frontage offers you a view on the village green where earlier a slight streamlet flowed in its middle. The village green includes two ranks of the rural farmsteads in close to abreast which are built along a road. This road lead up from the west to the east and imeddiately, almost right angle (90) it turns to the south on the east end of the village in front of a gate to the park. The communal office is located just around this place. There is situated sculpture of Jan Nepomucky in the middle of the green. It is a very precious work from 1724. The sculpture of Our Lady with crucifix is situated in front of the chateau.
The historical building represents a chapel of St. Anne from 1842 on the hill over the village– it is remarkably located and creates a testament of an ancient romanticism. If you stay on the top of the hill, you can not overlook the local swimming pool, where also kiosk is built. There is a lonely lodge and the statue of St. Barbora three kilometres further (the memory from time of the monastery Hradisko) in the east from Sebetov, on the bank connecting Mojetin and Rychvald, along a road to Pohora and Stepanov. There used to be placed the courtyard Na kopci instead of this lodge. The former owner of the dominant Karel Strachwitz named this courtyard Karlsberg. In present the name Karlov is beeing used. In these places you can come back to a village through the wood Obora. (Deers were bred in previous time there.) In a sweet valley of the stream Bela, which is a part of the protecting natural park Rehorkovo Korenecko (20m2) the lonely house Pilka is situated. Formerly it used to be a manorial water saw, which was displaced to the lower- on water lying Melkov. North-east of Sebetov, just under the woody hill side of Rychvald Moric´s Yard is located. (it was named according to the prince Moric Strachwitz). The remainder of building of manorial malt-house is placed at the south end of a road to Kninice. Since 1922 noone has been working there. This complex used to be sugar factory, but from the lack of water this only factory in Mala Hana was closed and it was passed on production of malt. Following the west road to Vanovice you can come to the single-track railway, which leads up from Skalice upon Svitava through Boskovice and Velke Opatovice to Chornice. This route was built after long delay in 1908. The centre of a village life is situated in a nearess of the crossroad with bus-stop. You can find the schoolhouse, the post office, the health centre, the cultural house with cinema, an inn and shops: a glocery, a shop with household´s needs and a shop with textiles.

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