THE IDENTIFICATION OF A GROUP OF SETTLEMENT KNOWN AS "HIRZŮV ÚJEZD" BY ČERNÁ V POŠUMAVÍ

Though small in area, Hirzův Újezd [1] was valuable, mostly because of its strategically important location on the Linec trail. From today’s point of view, its value lies in its compactness and in the fact that it was probably founded by a single locator – Hirzo, which is in this size rare in our country. This paper consists of identifying the aggregate of Hirzův Újezd and its development from its probable founding up to the present. The village identification method is based on the study of accessible historical records, which were partly uncovered by Jiří Kuthan. The method used for the determination of the presumed original founding concept is predominantly grounded in the research of Z. Pešková and J. Škabrada and is accepted among proffessionals. The survey of the area identified all thirteen settlements, twelve of them were still wellpreserved shortly after the end of the World War II. Unfortunately, only three of the settlements were preserved to the present day in a good condition and another three only as fragments. This information will be used as a base for further study of the settlement-founding systems in the examined area (dissertation on the topic of Identification of surveying methods of locator Hirzo). By better understanding of the founding process of a settlement, we can obtain materials for protection of valuable and in many places still visible original structure, for example by projecting it into Spacial planning.