Rokytno is a municipality and village in

Pardubice District Pardubice District () is a Okres, district in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Pardubice. Administrative division Pardubice District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with ex ...

in the

Pardubice Region Pardubice Region () is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located mainly in the eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in northwestern Moravia. It is named after its capital Pardubice. As an administrat ...

of the

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. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Rokytno consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Rokytno (625) *Bohumileč (205) *Drahoš (45)

Etymology

The name is derived from ''rokytí''. It is an old Czech term for

willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions. Most species are known ...

s which grew here in swampy areas.

Geography

Rokytno is located about northeast of

Pardubice Pardubice (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Repub ...

. It lies in the

East Elbe Table The East Elbe Table () is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the Hradec Králové, Pardubice and Central Bohemian region. The Elbe River flows through the territory, after which the plateau is nam ...

, in the

Polabí Polabí () is the traditional and informal name for a lowland region located mainly in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Etymology The name comes from Czech ''po Labi'', meaning "along the Elbe". The same linguistic construction g ...

region. The Bohumilečský pond is situated west of the village. The Přesypy u Rokytna Nature Reserve is a unique area of sand dunes overgrown with pine forest. With an area of , it is considered to be the largest Czech

desert A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the la ...

History

The first written mention of Rokytno is from 1436. During the 18th century, the village, together with

Chvojenec Chvojenec is a municipality and village in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. Geography Chvojenec is located about northeast of Pardubice and southeast of Hradec Králové. It lies on ...

and

Býšť Býšť () is a municipality and village in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,700 inhabitants. Administrative division Býšť consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the ...

, was the centre of persecuted religious sect of

Deists Deism ( or ; derived from the Latin term ''deus'', meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation o ...

called ''blouznivci''. During the industrialization at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, two brickyards were built here. The village of Drahoš was founded in 1782. It was settled by German-speaking farmers from the

Province of Silesia The Province of Silesia (; ; ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919. The Silesia region was part of the Prussian realm since 1742 and established as an official province in 1815, then became part of the German Empire in 1871. In 1919, as ...

Demographics

Transport

The D35 motorway runs through the municipality.

Sights

Rokytno is poor in monuments. The only protected

cultural monument A national heritage site is a heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Usually such sites are listed in a heritage registe ...

is a stone road bridge dating from 1834.

References

External links

* {{authority control Villages in Pardubice District