VysoÃÂina is a municipality in Chrudim District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants. It lies in the Iron Mountains on the Chrudimka River.
VysoÃÂina consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
The municipal office is located in DÃ ÂevÃÂkov.
The name means 'highland' in Czech.
VysoÃÂina is located about south of Chrudim and south of Pardubice. It lies in the Iron Mountains and in the à ½elezné hory Protected Landscape Area. The highest point is at above sea level. The Chrudimka River flows through the municipality.
The municipality was established on 1 January 1961 by merging the municipalities of Dà ÂevÃÂkov, Moà ¾dÃÂnice, RváÃÂov and Svobodné Hamry.
The I/37 road, which connects Hradec Králové and Pardubice with the D1 motorway, passes through the municipality.
The area of Veselý Kopec is an open-air museum with many examples of local folk architecture and folk architecture of neighbouring ethnographic regions. They were gradually moved here since the 1970s, and the only structure standing here permanently is the homestead No. 4, which is among the oldest folk architecture buildings in the Iron Mountains. The museum presents the housing and farming of small farmers from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. There is also a unique collection of technical monuments powered by water.
The village of Svobodné Hamry is protected as a village monument zone for its set of preserved folk architecture houses. The village was first mentioned in 1654 and it was an iron-working village, with a hammer mill from the 15th century in the centre. The water-powered hammer mill has been preserved to this day and has an exhibition there, maintained by the VysoÃÂina Open-air Museum.
The history of DÃ ÂevÃÂkov is connected with the Jewish community that lived there. A cultural monument is the former Jewish street, which was established after 1701, when several Jewish families moved here. The street is an example of local folk architecture. Among the buildings in the street is the former synagogue from the second half of the 18th century. The last Jewish family left DÃ ÂevÃÂkov in 1910.
The Jewish community in DÃ ÂevÃÂkov is commemorated by the Jewish cemetery. It was founded before 1740 and expanded to its current size in 1870. It is one of the best-preserved rural Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic, with a collection of valuable Baroque, Neoclassical and modern tombstones.
The main landmark of Svatý MikulÃ¡à ¡ is the Church of Saint Nicholas. It was built in the Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century. It was expanded in 1827 and modified in the neo-Gothic style in 1886.