Island of Ohri

He originally founded a Slavic settlement together with the Slávek z Osek monastery in the marshy plain above the Bystřicí stream around 1200. The current Czech name Ostrov comes from the German name Schackenwerth, which first appears in 1562. The market settlement on the trade route from Chob belonged in 1337 to the royal cities. The island was mortgaged to Kašpar Šlik in 1434 and the local silver mines at the end of the 15th century. Šlikovsky…