Welcome to CHKO Beskydy
Kosařiska – Milíř
You are standing in the village of Kosařiska. The first records of the
village date to the 15th century. Today, the village is mainly used for
recreation. As the Czech name suggests, the traditional livelihood of the local
mountain dwellers was looking after sheep, sheep often representing their only
property. The Czech word košár means a sheep-fold, a pen for sheep. The
biggest sheep celebration was in the spring, Redyk. This celebration is the day
of the herders, when the herders drove sheep to the pastures at day-break,
returned at lunch, went again at two o’clock, to return at dusk. Local people
traditionally lived in so-called salašs. Each salaš had a strict hierarchy.
Lowest in the hierarchy were the honelníks, whose job it was to chase the sheep
in for milking, prepare the cauldron for cheese and keep the
bača’s equipment in good condition. Higher up in the hierarchy were the
so-called valachs, who took the sheep up to the pastures, and helped shear the
sheep with the bača. The highest in the hierarchy was the bača, who owned the
sheep and who fed and paid the other workers. 
Contact
Actaea
Mgr.Kateřina Kočí
Karlovice
Tel.:777044758
e-mail:info@actaea.cz
http://www.actaea.cz
