Popluží (Havlovice)

The original name of this settlement, which is located between the Úpa river, the Krákorka forest and the Havlovic Podhrady (formerly known as Podhraď), was Popluž. There are several theories about the origin of this name. One claims that it arose from the fact that the land here belonged to the manor's (plužni) manor; the second, on the contrary, that this name is based on the same-named Old Bohemian measuring area unit, which was supposed to indicate the area that was...