Bítov u Bílovce

Bítov
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Moravskoslezský kraj
District :	Nový Jičín
Area :	439 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 48 '  N , 18 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '1 "  N , 18 ° 2' 51"  E
Height:	360  m nm
Residents :	468 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	743 01
License plate :	T
traffic
Street:	Těškovice - Bílovec
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Otto Schwarz (as of 2019)
Address:	Bítov 117 743 01 Bílovec 1
Municipality number:	554936
Website :	obec-bitov.webnode.cz

Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk

Northern part of the village

Stone cross

Bítov (German Bittau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers northeast of Bílovec and belongs to the Okres Nový Jičín .

geography

Bítov is located on a plateau of the Vítkovská vrchovina ( Wigstadtler Upland) above the valleys of the Jamník and Sezina streams. To the east rises the Podklan (376 m nm), in the south the Niva (359 m nm), to the west the Babí hůra (446 m nm) and the Okrouhlík (467 m nm) and in the northwest the Drahoňovec (428 m nm) and the Mečník (458 m nm). The village is located in the Oderské vrchy nature park .

Neighboring places are Kyjovice in the north, Čavisov and Zbyslavice in the northeast, Hýlov and Vrchpolí in the east, Olbramice , Kamenec and Lhotka in the southeast, Lubojaty in the south, Údolí Mladých and Tísek in the southwest, Karlovice and Výškovice in the west and Twestenškovice in the north.

history

The first written mention of Bettaw took place in 1377 as the property of Vladiken Ješek von Bítov. A treasure trove of 120 silver groschen from the time of King Wenceslas II that was found shows that the village is older. The now extinct fortress of Bítov is considered to be the ancestral seat of the knightly family Bítovský of Bítov ( Bítovský z Bítova ), which was widespread in Moravia and Silesia in the 15th century and is related neither to the Bítovský of Lichtenburg nor to the Bítovský of Slavíkovice. Based on the field name Hradisko , its location between Bítov and the former mill Bítovský mlýn is assumed. From 1413 the village was called Bietov . In 1519 Václav Hanuš Bítovský von Bítov sold the estate of Bítov with the villages of Bítov, Tísek and Lhotka to Wenzel Füllstein von Bladen ( Václav Fulštejn z Vladěnína ), who united it with his rule Wagstadt . The following landowners were the barons of Praschma until the 17th century and then the barons of Popp, who bequeathed the rule to the barons Sedlnitzky von Choltitz .

The place name the Bit has been handed down from 1561 . The oldest description of the place dates from 1606. At that time, Bittau consisted of 16 properties, including a bailiwick, eleven farms, two chalupners , a gardener and the mill on the Sezina; the population is estimated at 100–120. After the Thirty Years' War abandoned farms were repopulated with German settlers from the area. In 1696 the village consisted of a bailiff, nine farmers, two half-hunters, three gardeners, three chalupners and a miller. At that time, the German names Seidler, Beilner, Gebauer and Richter can be found among the residents. The German new settlers soon assimilated with the ancestral Lachian population. In 1768 the village consisted of 26 properties, a farm and a mill. In 1781 Bittau had grown to 44 houses and had 324 residents. Since the end of the 18th century, some of the residents have been earning their living through wage labor in the up-and-coming Wagstadt textile factories .

In 1834 the village of Bittau or Bittow , situated on a forested height, consisted of 44 poor houses forming a lane, in which 342 Lachish-speaking people lived. The Meierhof as well as a grinding and board mill lay apart. The main source of income was the poorly profitable agriculture. The parish and school location was Laubias . A windmill was built in the 1830s. Until the middle of the 19th century, the village remained subordinate to the Wagstadt minority.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Bitov / Bittau 1849 a district of the municipality Laubias / Lubojaty in the judicial district Wagstadt . From 1869 Bitov belonged to the Opava District. At that time the village had 393 inhabitants and consisted of 51 houses.

In 1896 Bitov was assigned to the newly formed Wagstadt district . In the same year the volunteer fire brigade was founded in Bitov and a one-class elementary school was opened. In 1900 there were 503 people in Bitov ; In 1910 there were 541. At the turn of the century, a new settlement was built southeast of the village at Meierhof. In January 1916, the state government of the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia approved the separation of Laubias and the formation of a separate community. This was only implemented after the end of the First World War; In 1919 the first municipal council and the mayor of Bítov were elected . In the 1921 census, 421 people lived in the village's 82 houses, including 408 Czechs and 9 Germans. In 1925 the village was electrified. In 1930 Bítov consisted of 98 houses and had 475 inhabitants; In 1939 there were 469. After the Munich Agreement , the laughable village was assigned to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Wagstadt district until 1945 . In the course of the Moravian-Ostrava operation , the village was captured on April 29, 1945 by the 4th Ukrainian Front with the 38th Army ; Seven soldiers and three residents died in the fighting. After the end of the Second World War, Bítov came back to Czechoslovakia . Most of the German-speaking minority was expelled in 1946 . In 1950 the village had 394 inhabitants. During the territorial reform of 1960, the Okres Bílovec was abolished and Bítov was incorporated into the Okres Nový Jičín . On January 1, 1979, Bítov was incorporated into Bílovec . The municipality of Bítov has existed again since the beginning of 1996. In the 2001 census, 391 people lived in Bítov's 129 houses.

Community structure

No districts are designated for the municipality of Bítov. The municipality forms the cadastral district of Bítov u Bílovce.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, on the village square, built before 1880
• Stone cross, on the road to Meierhof, created in 1893
• Chapel, north of the village at the junction to the Sezina valley
• Chapel, south of the village above the Jamník valley
• Liberty linden tree ( Lípa svobody ), planted in 1918, tree monument
• Memorial stone for those who fell in World War I, unveiled in 1925

Sons and daughters of the church

• František Schwarz (1931–1995), Czech Germanist, historian and philosopher

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 722

Web links

• History of Bítov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obec Bítov: podrobné informace , uir.cz
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ↑ Faustin Ens : The Oppaland or the Opava district, according to its historical, natural history, civic and local peculiarities. Volume 3: Description of the Oppaland and its inhabitants in general . Vienna 1836, p. 296
4. ↑ Chytilův místopis ČSR, 2nd updated edition, 1929, p. 52 Biskupová - Bláha
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wagstadt district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Katastrální území Bítov u Bílovce: podrobné informace , uir.cz