Starý Jičín () is a municipality and village in

Nový Jičín District Nový Jičín District () is a district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Nový Jičín. Administrative division Nový Jičín District is divided into five administrative districts of municipalitie ...

in the

Moravian-Silesian Region The Moravian-Silesian Region () is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most ...

of the

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. It has about 3,000 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Starý Jičín consists of nine municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Starý Jičín (433) *Dub (119) *Heřmanice (138) *Janovice (276) *Jičina (249) *Palačov (231) *Petřkovice (230) *Starojická Lhota (400) *Vlčnov (741)

Geography

Starý Jičín is located about west of

Nový Jičín Nový Jičín (; ) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic centre of Nový Jičín is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument reservati ...

. It lies in the

Moravian-Silesian Foothills Moravian-Silesian Foothills () are foothills and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. Geomorphology The Moravian-Silesian Foothills is a mesoregion of the Western Beskidian Foothills macroregion within the Outer Western Carpath ...

. The highest point is the mountain Petřkovická hora at above sea level. A dominant feature located just above the village is the hill Starojický kopec at .

History

The first written mention of Jičín is from 1240, when the castle was mentioned. The castle was built here in the late 12th or in the early 13th century, originally as a guard castle on the

Amber Road The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Prehistoric trade routes between Northern and Southern Europe were defined by the amber trade. ...

. The nearby market village was established soon after the castle.

Demographics

Transport

The I/48 road (the unfinished section of the D48 motorway, part of the

European route E462 E 462 is a European B class road in Czech Republic and Poland, connecting the cities Brno – Olomouc – Český Těšín - Katowice – Kraków Route * ** : Brno – Vyškov (E50/E65 concurrency) ** : Vyškov – Olomouc ** : Olomouc – Lip ...

), which connects the D1 motorway with

Frýdek-Místek Frýdek-Místek (, ; ) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 54,000 inhabitants. The historic centres of both Frýdek and Místek are well preserved and are protected as two Cultural monument (Czech Republic) ...

, passes through the municipality.

Sights

The main landmark of the municipality is the Starý Jičín Castle, located on a hill above the village. For centuries, none of the owners cared about the castle and at the beginning of the 20th century, it became a ruin. Since 1996, it has been owned by the municipality and partial repairs were made. The second notable monument is the complex of the Church of Saint Wenceslaus with a rebuilt Renaissance tower. The church was built in the Gothic style before 1374 and was rebuilt in the Renaissance and Baroque styles in the second half of the 16th century, at the end of the 17th century and in the first quarter of the 18th century. A landmark of the centre of Starý Jičín is a stone fountain. It was created in the

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in 1836. It is decorated with a metal sculpture of the Guardian Angel.

Notable people

* Max David (1859–?), Moravian-German engineer

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stary Jicin Villages in Nový Jičín District