Žihle
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Plzeň-sever | ||||
| Area : | 3985 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 3 ' N , 13 ° 22' E | ||||
| Height: | 448 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,320 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 331 65 | ||||
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| Railway connection: | 160 Plzeň – Žatec | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 6th | ||||
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| Mayor : | František Procházka (as of 2013) | ||||
| Address: | Žihle 53 331 65 Žihle |
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| Municipality number: | 559695 | ||||
| Website : | www.obec-zihle.cz | ||||
Žihle (Latin: Vzehl , Zyhel , Zihel , German: Scheles , Schöla , Schöl , Schöles ) is a municipality in the Plzeň-Nord district in the Czech Republic . The village of Žihle has 1250 inhabitants, which is most of the municipality's population.
Geographical location
The village is located in western Bohemia , about 33 km north of the city of Plzeň ( Pilsen ) and 76 km west of Prague , and is surrounded by mountains and forests.
history
Žihle was first mentioned in 1238 in an exchange deed. During this exchange, King Wenceslas I reversed the purchase of Kožlany that had been made by the Plasy Monastery in 1230 and exchanged Kožlany for Žihle. In 1268 a market square was established in Žihle.
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After the Hussite Wars , Žihle belonged to the Pflugk family, and the town was promoted in 1559 by Ferdinand I von Habsburg . In the same year, a renaissance castle was built on the site of an old fortress, which is still in the village today.
During the Thirty Years War , Žihle was occupied by the Swedish army in 1639 and 1645 and burned to the ground. From the first half of the 17th century, Scheles belonged to the Petrohrad (Petersburg) rule of the Counts Czernin von und zu Chudenitz . Around 1807 Schöles ( Zelecž , Zihle ) had 80 houses, a Catholic parish church, two mills and a limestone quarry.
After the First World War , Scheles was added to the newly created Czechoslovakia in 1919 . Due to the Munich Agreement of 1938 place came to the German Reich and was until 1945 the district Podersam , Region of Eger , in the Reich District of Sudetenland . After the end of the Second World War , the native German-Bohemian population was largely expropriated and expelled .
Demographics
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1785 | k. A. | 77 houses |
| 1830 | 593 | in 95 houses |
| 1843 | 672 | in 104 houses |
| 1869 | 713 | |
| 1880 | 769 | |
| 1890 | 751 | |
| 1900 | 765 | |
| 1910 | 806 | |
| 1921 | 945 | 720 German residents |
| 1930 | 1152 | |
| 1939 | 1121 |
| year | 1950 | 1961 | 1970 | 1980 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| Residents | 950 | 921 | 917 | 1020 | 1191 | 1268 | 1244 |
Community structure
The municipality consists of the districts Hluboka, Kalec, Nový Dvůr, Odlezly, Přehořov and Žihle.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ^ Karl Georg Rumi: Geographical-statistical dictionary of the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1809, p. 350, left column .
- ↑ Jaroslaus Schaller : Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 7: Saatzer Kreis , Prague and Vienna 1787, pp. 116–117, paragraph 25) .
- ↑ Yearbooks of the Bohemian Museum of Natural and Regional Studies, History, Art and Literature . Volume 2, Prague 1831, p. 199, paragraph 26.
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 14: Saaz Circle , Prague 1846, p. 284, paragraph 15.
- ^ Sudetenland Genealogy Network
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Podersam district (Czech: Podborany). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).