About a pair of Batňovice fortresses

Today, Batňovice is one municipality, but earlier it was 2 separate villages - Zálesí (then called Zálezly) and Batňovice, which competed with each other in many ways. Each of them had its own fortress, although the most famous was the Záleská one, which I will mention in the first place. Under Batňovice, opposite the church of St. Bartolomeje in Zálesí was located near the Rtyňka river at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, a meager…