Ostřešany
The name of municipality Ostřešany cannot be
satisfyingly justified.
It is said that it came from word “sharp” or “roof”.
The oldest mention about the municipality is from 23. 12. 1340 in the last will
of the knight Arnošt from Pardubice in which he passes Pardubice and some
villages, except of Ostřešany, to his son Arnošt who was a dean in Prague in
the main church of the Virgin and later he became the first archbishop of
Prague.
In 1563 the municipality Ostřešany were having 30 residents. The
municipality Ostřešany belonged to the so called “feudal system” of Tuněchody.
In the chronicle from 1651is written that Ostřešany has its own so called
“feudal system”.
The “feudal system” was placed in the house of today’s number
11 and covered villages: Ostřešany, Drozdice, Žitím, Černá za Bory, Nemošice
and Pardubičky. The interesting pieces of the municipality are a chapel from
1898 and the house number 11 of famous painter Eva Filemonová, her house is
special by its facade decoration.
