Chrudim-Hlinsko Region - Technical monuments and planetariums

Technical monuments and planetariums

• Seč - water feeder
  Only a 3 m long piece of the original piping found behind the fence of the power plant has been conserved. The original wooden material has been replaced by metal.
  Address: pod hrází, 53807, Seč
  
• Collection of rustic structures in Vysočina - Veselý Kopec
  Timber settlements are freely scattered in the original countryside and were brought here from the area of Žďárské vrchy and Železné hory.
  Telephone: 469326415, 469333175
  Address: Veselý kopec
  
• Závratec - lime works
  The lime works previously served to process raw materials mined in nearby Prachovnice, from where they were transported by an approximately 5 km long basket cableway. Following the Second World War production began to stagnate and was terminated for good in 1960.
  Telephone: 469611135, 461105405
  Address: 538 43, Závratec-Třemošnice
  
• Collection of rustic structures in Vysočina - Svobodné Hamry - water iron-mill
  This is the original iron-mill that was used for the production of iron in the 15th-17th centuries and later on for running the mill.
  Telephone: 469333175
  Address: 539 01, Vysočina - Svobodné Hamry
  
• Korečnický mill
  One of the oldest building structures in Doubrava, apparently it is mentioned is foundation charters. Its name is derived from the water wheel with buckets (i.e. boxes between wheels). The Korecnicky (bucket) mill is the home of the writer and journalist Ferdinand Schulze (1835-1935).
  Address: Ronov nad Doubravou
  
• Křižanovice - water works
  Gravitational, direct dam with a triangular profile from simple vibrated concrete without a protective zone, 130 metres long at the crown. A water electric plant with a Francis turbine is located on the left bank of the Chrudimka River. The reservoir is connected to the Práčov equalization pond by a 3 km long underground pipeline.
  Telephone: 466868211, 469679114
  Address: 538 25, Křižanovice
  
• Pařížov - water reservoir
  Solid quarry stone water reservoir built on the Doubravka river in 1913 serves recreational and fishing purposes. The dam is 31 m high and 142 m long in the crest.
  Telephone: 469662116
  Address:
  
• Seč - water reservoir
  Impounding dam reservoir built on the river Chrudimka in 1925 - 34 serves as a protection against floods and also for recreational and waterworks purposes. The brick dam is 42 m high and 165 m long. Wooden feeder leads to a hydro power plant equipped with Francis turbine. The equalizing reservoir Seč II. was built later, in 1941 - 1947.
  Address:
  
• Old lime kiln
  Lime was produced from the local limestone from 1877 to 1941. Limestone from the quarry in Prachovice was transported for processing using teams of horses and later by rail once the railroad was launched into operation in 1882. In 1948 prohibition was issued on further trade. Thereby all operations on the entire premises of the lime kiln were terminated. At present it is in private ownership.
  Address: Kostelec u Heřmanova Městce
  
• Water power of Korečnický mill
  Noteworthy technical item of uniqueness, used to create a gradient of over 7 m. It is the greatest gradient ever artificially made in Doubrava. The motor is in the upper part led through a rock tunnel. It is very old and its origin is not known.
  Address: Ronov nad Doubravou
  
• Hampl's mill
  A bakery belonged to the mill long ago. Now the mill belongs to the inheritants of the original owners (restitution in the 1990s). The miller's symbol is noticeable till this day on the mill's builing.
  Address: Klešice
  
• Lukavice - pyrite mines
  Pyrite was mined in Lukavice as early as 1620. The depth of the mining shafts reaches 210 metres. Mine entrances have been preserved and information boards introduce visitors to the history of mining.
  Telephone: 469670151
  Address: 538 21, Lukavice
  
• Zminky - artificial water channel
  The water lead is 11.5 km long and was built in the 15th century during the times of the dramatic development of fishpond cultivation in East Bohemia. It serves to supply the pond grouups around Zminne that no longer exist and to supply several ponds.
  Address: 538 62, Dvakačovice
  
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