Paceřice: Husa EN

The village of Husa, which has been a district of Paceřice since 1990, was part of the municipality of Svojkov in mediaeval times. The entire village was abandoned during the Thirty Years’ War and it name was forgotten. In the 1790s the Lamott family from Frintrop built Sychrov chateau not far from here, and the village was resettled as a result. The U Divoké husy inn (from where the village takes its name) was built, with a smithy and several cottages.

In 1812 the lands here were bought by the noble Rohan family, whose reconstruction of Sychrov chateau did a great deal to help the village grow (this was also helped along by the construction of the nearby railway from Pardubice to Liberec). A brickworks was built in the village, where Petr Bušek, creator of the chateau’s woodcarvings, worked from 1856. He set up a company there, which was successfully run by his sons Dominik and Konstantin after his death.

One interesting building is the Fialka villa (no. 17, by the road to Sychrov). It was originally home to gardener Vojtěch Mašek, the man behind the glorious gardens of Sychrov park. The Bušek family then lived in the villa, and one of its members worked there, the literatus and translator Karel Bušek, who published his works under the pseudonym Bohdan Kaminský.

In 1961 the Čtveřín, Lažany, Paceřice, Radimovice and Žďárek JZD agricultural cooperatives were merged to form the new JZD Velký Sychrov and Husa became its centre. Agro Sychrov, a. s., and Rekuper Sychrov, s. r. o., the successors to the JZD, were established in the municipality in 1993 and are still thriving today.