Jihlava and surroundings The system of tourist and bicycle routes in Jihlava and surroundings Content Bílý Kámen 9 Jiřín 36 Cejle 10 Kostelec 36 Cerekvička – Rosice 11 Luka nad Jihlavou 38 Čížov 12 Malý Beranov 41 Dvorce 13 Měšín 42 Hlávkov 15 Mirošov 43 Hubenov 16 Plandry 44 Hybrálec 17 Příseka 46 Ježená 19 Puklice 48 Jihlava and its parts 21 Rančířov 49 Masaryk Square 23 Rantířov 50 ZOO 24 Smrčná 52 The forest park 24 Střítež 53 The municipal railway Štoky 55 station 25 Velký Beranov 57 Water Paradise 25 Větrný Jeníkov 59 Antonínův Důl 26 Vílanec 61 Helenín 26 Vyskytná nad Jihlavou 62 Henčov 26 Ždírec 64 Heroltice 27 Horní Kosov 27 The overview map 66 Hosov 28 The map of Jihlava 68 Hruškové Dvory 28 Kosov 29 Pančava 29 Pávov 30 Pístov 30 Popice 31 Staré Hory 32 Vysoká 32 Zborná 33 U Lyžaře 35 3 Dear tourists, the city of Jihlava and its 26 partner villages joined to create a 270 km-long tourist information system. The project was implemented between 2009 and 2011 with fi nancial support from the Operational Programme NUTS 2 South-East. Unique road signs such as numbered guideposts (guard stones), notices and information signs guide both hikers and bikers around the various sites and places of interest within the region. This system also uses existing tourist and bike trails. As a part of the project Stříbrné pomezí (Silver border) is this tourist guide, where is inserted the tourist map overview, promotional CD and 5 cards with selected recommended circuits. For more information, visit the Web site www.stribrnepomezi.eu or contact partner community sites. 5 How to walk through this system for tourists? Stříbrné pomezí (Silver border) off ers three types of routes, for cyclists, pedestrians and routes combined, which are designed for both groups. Tourists selects the route on the map (on the notice boards, advertising material or website), which want to happen. Important are numbers on bollards, which will pass over or through. The fi eld will be oriented by marking the tourist system, do it. Basis for marking bollards are numbered with arrows which orient for further bollards on the route. At some intersections are located instead of bollards clear directional signage. Between intersections with bollards or directional signs to guide tour- ists, help additional signs in the form of round symbols placed on lampposts, trees, etc. To facilitate familiarization with the system use the recommended route which can be found in promotional materials or www.stribrnepomezi.eu. 6 7 Bílý Kámen The foundation of Bílý Kámen will forever remain under a shroud of secrecy. It must have happened sometime around the mid-13th century, when Jihlava’s surroundings became heav- ily populated by prospectors seeking silver. Their attention was also focused on the areas in vicinity of old roads and in one of such places, virtually along an old path from Humpolec to Ostrava, miners uncovered a vast silver discovery. The ore was found in white quartz and the name of the settlement came forward – Biley Kamen (White Stone), or Albo Lapido, Weis- sensteyn. Those were the names that appeared in the fi rst mentions of the village in written sources. The oldest one dates back to 1359. Sights and places of interest A Kaufmanns Brunn (Merchant’s Spring) used to provide refreshment to wanderers and traveling merchants on the Humpolec road. The Chapel of St Peter and Paul was built towards the end of the 18th century in late Ba- roque style. It houses an original altar and a typical Baroque painting with an illusionary altar. There is also a cross stone with an engraved cross and a stone cross with a double arrow in the village; both objects can be classifi ed as conciliatory crosses (stone). A silver memory: reminders of medieval silver mining remained preserved in the village sur- roundings. The most beautiful location referred to as the Bílý Kámen excavation is found on the woody hill of Kamenný vrch, about 500 m north of the crossroads past the eastern village border. The load, stretching from the north-west to south-east used to be followed by 225 meters of shafts from which 27 pits of 10 meters in diameter and up to 5 meters deep have preserved. Shafts used to be dug only as deep as daylight allowed. Slag heaps along the shafts formed a continuous belt. The entire mining structure of Bílý Kamen has preserved untouched. It certainly deserves to be proclaimed a technical monument and appropriately conserved. 9 48 Cejle In 1278 was founded a village Cejle. The name comes from the German word Zeile, which means a lane or a street. The fact that Cejle was German is further documented by fi eld tracts’ names within the cadastre that date back to the times of Maria Theresa. Cejle also covered Vestenhof, present-day Kostelecký Dvůr. There used to be a mill which allowed the village prospered. The area is formed by a granite massif of Čeřínek Hill. There are a lot of bogs and wet meadows. Sights and places of interest The village is located on the southern slope of a granite massif of the Archean Bohemian- Moravian Highlands; its highest peak is Čeřínek. Its eastern border is formed by a stream that starts in Štuzajf and fl ows into Jedlovský potok near Klepák. The border contin- ues along the stream down to the mouth of the Jihlavka River. The village is 550 to 580 meters above sea level. In 1913, a road connected the village and the Cejle – Kostelec railway station was built. In 1930, there were 545 inhabitants; 274 men and 271 women. Thirteen of them could not read or write. Most people worked in farming and forestry. Others en- gaged in diff erent crafts and trades. There was a blacksmith, a baker, a shoemaker, a miller, a butcher, a tailor, a wheelwright, a joiner, a carpenter, a bricklayer, a locksmith, a stonemason and others. There is a memorial of those who fell in the First and Second World Wars; across the street is a little chapel with a belfry and another memorial of those fallen in the First World War near the crossroads towards Kostelec. In the corner of a garden that used to belong to a former elementary school is a cross stone with a relief; under the arms are two wheels. Today, the cross stone serves as the pedestal of a cast-iron cross. 10 The area is formed by a granite massif of Čeřínek Hill. This massif permeates only very small amount of water. Hence, the water stays on the surface and forms peat bogs and water- logged meadows that are suitable for more cryophilic plant species. The southern and south-eastern foothills of Čeřínek form the border between the Humpolec and Brtník Highlands, parts of the Křemešnice and Křižanov Highlands. The Čeřínek massif hides a lot of water sources and it is a major source area. The average yield is less than 1 liter per second. 63 Cerekvička – Rosice Cerekvička | The name of this high location where the wayside cross lies at 596 meters above sea level means “new foundation” (= Neu – Stift), i.e. a new village. As early as in written documents dating from the 14th century, the settlement was referred to in Latin as “Nova Villa” (New Village). Other names include Cerekvice, incorrectly also Malá Cerekev and Cerekvička. The name is derived from a wooden church that used to stand in Cerekvička along the Haberská stezka path. The fi rst mention of Cerekvice dates back to 1350. The vil- lage was once owned by the Lords of Pelhřimov and later by the Špisser, the Máček and the Šmilauer families.The village had a signifi cant number of German settlers, especially because of the mining industry. Until 1945 when they were transferred, the Germans constituted a major population group; this is evident from the mostly German names and archive records. Rosice | The village’s name is derived from the proper name Roch. The German form used to be Roschitz. In the 15th century, the village was sold by Prokop Pelhřimovský to a burgher from Jihlava, Jakub Bauerhansel, and in 1487 it was bought by the town of Jihlava. Sights and places of interest The Chapel of the Virgin Mary in Rosice – registration number 4778, located in plot No. 682/1 in the village square of Rosice. The chapel is from the 19th century; the door head reads 1840. 11 The Wayside Cross in Rosice – registration number 4779, located along the road to Čížov, about 200 m north-west of the village. The wayside cross is from the 18th century; the ped- estal reads 1767. In addition to the above, both cadastres have a large number of minor sacral sites such as memorial crosses and wayside crosses, most of them dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Remnants (pedestal) of what used to a wayside cross, similar to the one mention in 2 is worth noticing. The Fragment is slightly less elaborate than the wayside cross mentioned above and is located left of the path from Cerekvička to Vílanec, at the village border; its carving says 1789. 46 Čížov This municipality located on the right bank of the Jihlávka River, about 4.5 km south of the Jihlava center, is fi rst mentioned in written records dating back to 1358 in relation to silver mining in the Jihlava district. Sights and places of interest There are numerous precious folk architecture structures. Two old granges from the 16th century (at buildings Nos.