Úštěk

Úštěk
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Ústecký kraj
District :	Litoměřice
Area :	7,495.0814 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 35 ' N , 14 ° 21' E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '13 " N , 14 ° 20' 42" E
Height:	242 m nm
Residents :	2,901 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	411 08-411 45
License plate :	U
traffic
Railway connection:	Řetenice – Lovosice – Česká Lípa – Liberec
structure
Status:	city
Districts:	24
administration
Mayor :	Pavel Kundrát (as of 2014)
Address:	Mírové náměstí 83 ; 411 45 Úštěk
Municipality number:	565814
Website :	www.mesto-ustek.cz

Úštěk (German Auscha ) is a city in Ústecký kraj in the Czech Republic .

Geographical location

The city is located in northern Bohemia at the scenic transition between the Bohemian Central Mountains and Daubaer Schweiz . It was built on an elongated sandstone rock that slides along the Černý potok (Haberbach) from west to east in the area where it flows into the Úštěcký potok ( Munkerbach ).

history

Town square with the Church of Peter and Paul

Houses on the market square

The place was founded in the middle of the 11th century and elevated to a city in 1361. The original lords of Michalovice pledged the city to Berka von Dubá in 1387 . The city passed through numerous ecclesiastical and secular hands. Auscha is a center of hop growing and was a center of the Bohemian hop trade. In 1885 a hop hall was built and there were several large hop factories. The red hops produced were traded on the Auscha hop markets. The Arial Road ran straight through the city from Leitmeritz to Bohemian Leipa .

According to the Munich Agreement , the city belonged from 1938 to 1945 to the district of Leitmeritz , administrative district of Aussig , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of the German Empire .

In the 1960s, the Chmelař recreational center was established north of the city. The creation of the artificial pond cleared and flooded the village of Zelená Ves ( Gründorf ). In the northwest lies the massif of the Geltschberg (Sedlo).

Today a total of around 2,800 people live in the 22 districts. The most important sources of income are traditionally agriculture, metal processing and furniture manufacturing. The share of textile production is constantly falling, with increases being recorded in the service sector. Unemployment is relatively high.

The city has served as a backdrop for feature films several times.

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year	Residents	Remarks
1830	1496	in 265 houses, including 60 Jews
1900	2642	German residents
1930	2244
1939	2078

Population since the end of the Second World War
year	1970	1980	1991	2001	2003
Residents	3 187	2,981	2 703	2,662	2,664

Community structure

The city of Úštěk consists of 24 districts:

Bílý Kostelec ( Weißkirchen ) with the single layer Pohorsko ( Hundorf ) and the desert Starosti ( Sorge )
Brusov ( Prause )
Dolní Vysoké ( Niederwessig , also Unterwessig )
Držovice ( Tirschewitz ) with the one-layer Nový Týn ( Neuthein )
Dubičná ( Eicht )
Habřina ( Haber )
Julčín ( Julienau ) with the one-layer Černcí ( Tschims )
Kalovice ( Kalwitz )
Konojedy ( Konojed )
Lhota ( Olhotta )
Ličenice ( Litschnitz )
Lukov ( Luka ) with the layers Lukovsko ( Rutte ) and Svobodná Ves ( Freidorf )
Ostré ( new territory )
Rašovice ( Raschowitz ) with the one-layer Krásná Studánka ( Schönborn )
Robeč ( Robitsch )
Rochov ( Roche )
Starý Týn ( Old Rhine )
Tetčiněves ( Tetschendorf )
Třebín ( Trebine )
Úštěk-České Předměstí ( Auscha-Bohemian Suburb )
Úštěk-Českolipské Předměstí ( Auscha-Leipa suburb )
Úštěk-Vnitřní Město ( Auscha city center )
Vědlice ( Wedlitz )
Zelený ( Grünwald )

Basic settlement units are Bílý Kostelec, Brusov, Dolní Vysoké, Držovice, Dubičná, Habřina, Julčín, Kalovice, Konojedy, Lhota, Ličenice, Lukov, Lukovsko, Ostré, Pohorsko, Rašinovice, Robeč, Rochov, Starý Týněves, Úč, Vesk, Staršodněves, Sv. Vědlice and Zelený.

The municipality is subdivided into the cadastral districts of Bílý Kostelec, Brusov, Dolní Vysoké I, Držovice, Dubičná, Habřina u Úštěku, Kalovice, Konojedy u Úštěku, Lhota u Úštěku, Lhota u Úštěku, Robušovice, Lukéov uštěku, Ličenice u Úštěov, Rakovovic, Ličenice u Úštěov, Kalovovic Tetčiněvsi, Starý Týn, Tetčiněves, Úštěk and Vědlice.

Attractions

Old houses on the market square, in the background the tower of the town church

Bird houses

The historic city center was declared an urban monument reserve in 1980 .

Historic old town with "bird houses" (monument protection reserve)
Ruins of the Helfenburg near Ostré
The Neuländer Kapellenberg near Ostré (Neuland) has a height of 330 m and offers a good view over the Auscha basin to the Geltschberg . In the opposite direction, only the peak of the Vlhošť (Willhoscht) is visible. The two baroque chapels above a stone flight of steps, to which a way of the cross leads from Ostré, were built between 1703 and 1707 by the Leitmeritz master builder Octavio Broggio on behalf of the Jesuits zu Liebeschitz . After a last restoration in 1928, art abusers looted and destroyed the complex in the 1950s. The neglected Kalvarienberg was freed from wild trees and shrubs in 2005. There used to be a pilgrimage along the Way of the Cross for the Cross Finding Festival on May 3rd.

In the streets and alleys of the city center at Easter and August there are very attractive and well-attended "Old Bohemian Fairs", at which craftsmen (ceramists, basket weavers, glassblowers, blacksmiths, turners, beekeepers, plasterers, tailors, belters, etc.) offer their products.

Neuländer Kapellenberg, statue
New country Kapellenberg
View of the chapel mountain of Konojedy from
The church in Habrina has been covered again

Panský dvůr Castle from the 14th century
late baroque church of St. Peter and Paul (1764–1772)

Pikart Tower, the mightiest and largest tower in the city fortifications (1428), today an exhibition room
Deanery building the rectory
Synagogue on Podskalská ulice and Jewish cemetery
Gabled houses on the market square (Mírové náměstí)
Jesuit Court
Kudlichdenkmal