LOCATIONS — 242/262 — Miskowitz
The first mention of the village can be found in 1309, when it belonged to Nechval and Peškov of Miskowitz. In 1358, part of the village was taken over by the Skalitz monastery. Until 1805, Miskowitz was enclosed by three gates, but it is not known for sure whether there was a wall between them. The fortress in the village stood since time immemorial and the first written mention dates back to 1419, when it belonged to a Kuttenberg burgher Vaněk Píšek. The area surrounding the village is rich in water and the spring of St. Adalbert, which supplied Kuttenberg in the Middle Ages, can be found here.
TRIVIA
— Besides its connection to Kuttenberg’s medieval water system, Miskovice is surrounded by one of central Bohemia’s most unusual geological landscapes. The surrounding area forms part of the so-called Miskovice Karst, a rare pseudokarst system of caves, sinkholes, and fossil-rich limestone deposits. The same system fed the spring of St. Adalbert, whose waters once supplied all sixteen public fountains of medieval Kuttenberg through a wooden aqueduct that crossed the Přítocká valley.
The municipality is also overlooked by Vysoká Hill, the highest point in the Kutná Hora region. Its summit was once the site of a Baroque chapel and hermitage known as Belvedere, built at the end of the 17th century by Count František Antonín Špork. Though struck by lightning and destroyed in 1834, its ruins remain visible today.
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