Ratiboř

Some interesting facts from the history of the village square

For the citizens of Ratibor, the imaginary centre of the village is a place that acquired its present form in the 1970s - in the vicinity of the municipal office (OÚ). With the new bridging of the Ratibořka River and the landscaping of both banks, the place took on a completely new appearance.

• In the 1960s, an ice rink was built on the site where the OÚ building stands today, which was then moved to Chmelníky and disappeared after several winter seasons.
• The building of the former municipal council was ground floor and in 1975 it was rebuilt to its present appearance.
• Next to the OÚ there is a cinema, which, after reconstruction, started screening on 22 July 1961, the first in the district with a widescreen). The cinema was called "Kolektiv" and screened 5 days a week. The cinema building was adjacent to the U Pilčíků pub.
• Next to the pub there was a low wooden building where a barber, Mr. Karel Mikšík, operated.
• Opposite the cinema building stood a small cottage of the newsagent Mr. Arnošt Poslušný with a small dispensing window and a regular message - I'll come right away. Next to the newsagent's grew lush lime trees and a wooden bridge crossed the Ratibořka (today our stream is covered by a wide flat bridge in these places).
• The old wooden bridge was once used by nomadic knife and scissors grinders. The bridge was the site of frequent traffic accidents. Memorialists will recall one curious accident when a fully laden carload of bryndza overturned off the bridge into the stream. Traffic accidents then became the main reason for the new Ratibořka bridge, which was started in 1980.
• Charles's bakery and grocery shop followed. In the past, Karol's bakery was adjacent to a branch of Kohn's furniture factory, which was later taken over by the Thonet-Mundus company, which closed in 1929 during the depression.
• Opposite Karol's bakery (now a bus stop) was the municipal weighing station and in the building was the municipal almond factory with a washing machine. In 1968, the "Pramen" grocery store was opened here. Next to the shop, a ford led through Ratibořka to the Hološín valley.
• Opposite the inn, on the right bank of the Ratibořka, was the building materials shop of Jan Čablík.
• Before the Second World War, there was a forge next to the building shops. The blacksmiths Jan Mareček and Ludvík Hynek worked there.
• In the neighbouring storey building there was a textile shop of Mrs. Františka Halmazňová. Today there is a florist and haberdashery. The once low neighbouring building of the Hurtík family has been transformed into today's shop of Industrial Goods U Karolů.
• The family house in the local garden was inhabited by the Baroň family, nowadays it is owned by the Municipal Office in Ratiboř.
• Below the floodplain is the confluence of the Ratibořka River with the left tributary of the Kateřinka stream.