Sloup v Moravském Krasu

Sloup is a municipality with 910 inhabitants (31. December 2003) in Tschechien. The place of pilgrimage is in the Mähri Karst, 7.5 km east of Rájec Jestřebí and belongs to the Okres Blansko .

The village is in 470 m height because of the confluence of the brooks Žďárná and Luha. In the south of the place the drying valley Pustý begins žleb. The Luha flows into the inside the Karstfläche, in which the Höhlensystem is Sloupsko šošůvské jeskyně. In the cave Kůlna, the part of this system is head bone by Neandertalern as well as bone of the cave bear, Hyänen and the Wollnashorn was found. Beside numerous caves, earth cases and breaks also salient Karstfelsen rules in Sloup.

The local picture coined/shaped of the virgin Maria painful two do RMI towards pilgrimage church.

Not far of it the family cemetery of the princes Salm Reifferscheidt existed with old lime trees lies.

history

Sloup was mentioned documentary for the first time in the year 1373. 1446 was it in the possession of Sovinec Půta of Doubravice and Holstein. 1491 bought Ludmilla of Kunstadt, the woman of the Vratislaw of Pernstein village and mill. In the course 16. Century became the family Drnovsky, which called itself later from rye village, owner of the rule Sloup. Johann Christian von Roggendorf, which possessed since 1675 Sloup, was a royal captain of the Brünner of circle. Countess Caroline of rye village, since 1741 lady in Sloup left the church of the painful virgin Maria between 1751 and 1754 on the market place to establish. After the healing of a Epileptikerin Sloup became the place of pilgrimage. 1763 bought Anton Josef old count von Salm Reifferscheidt the rule Sloup. The family Salm Reifferscheidt remained up to their expropriation in the year 1945 owners of the rule and their coat of arms ziert this very day the municipality coat of arms. 1862 were raised Sloup to the small town.

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coordinates: 49° 24 ' 55 " N, 16° 44 ' 22 " O #