Blšany

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Blšany
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Blšany (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Ústecký kraj
District : Louny
Area : 3634.5167 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 13 '  N , 13 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '20 "  N , 13 ° 28' 35"  E
Height: 199  m nm
Residents : 999 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 438 01 - 439 88
License plate : U
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Street: Žatec - Jesenice
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Status: city
Districts: 6th
administration
Mayor : Petr Bukáček (as of 2013)
Address: Náměstí 29
439 88 Blšany
Municipality number: 566021
Website : www.blsany.cz
Location of Blšany in the Louny district
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Blšany (German Flöhau near Podersam ) is a town with 938 inhabitants (as an urban district, January 1, 2004) in the Czech Republic .

Geographical location

The city is located in western Bohemia , 5 km southeast of Podbořany ( Podersam ), at 277 m above sea level. M. on the Blšanka ( Goldbach ), a tributary to the Eger .

history

Town hall on the market square
Michaelskirche

The first mention of Blšany comes from the year 1238. In the 14th century Flöhau received city rights. The brewery was founded in 1588 by the landlords, the noble Lobkowicz von Hassenstein family . In 1716 and 1717 the parish church was renewed. On October 31, 1825, the Flöhauer church was destroyed by fire.

After the Munich Agreement , the annexation of the city took place in 1938 Flöhau to the German Reich as part of the district Podersam , Region of Eger , in the Reich District of Sudetenland .

In 1939, 734 people lived in the city, mainly German Bohemians , who were expelled after the Second World War.

After the Second World War, Blšany lost its town charter and got it back in October 2006. The city also became known through the former first division soccer club FK Chmel Blšany .

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1785 0k. A. 83 houses
1830 0689 in 114 houses
1843 0840 in 135 houses
1869 1020
1880 1121
1690 0994
1900 1014 German residents
1910 1011
1921 0936 including 838 German residents
1930 0980
1939 0794
Population since the end of the Second World War
year 1950 1961 1970 1980 1991 2001 2011
Residents 401 501 492 460 400 389 420

Community structure

The town of Blšany consists of the districts Blšany ( Flöhau ), Liběšovice ( Lischwitz ), Malá Černoc ( Kleintschernitz ), Siřem ( Zürau ), Soběchleby ( Oberklee ) and Stachov ( Stachl ), which also form cadastral districts. The hamlet of Čárka ( Zarch ) also belongs to Blšany .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Blšany  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.uir.cz/obec/566021/Blsany
  2. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. Jaroslaus Schaller : Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 7: Saatzer Kreis , Prague and Vienna 1787, pp. 79–80, item 23) .
  4. Yearbooks of the Bohemian Museum of Natural and Regional Studies, History, Art and Literature . Volume 2, Prague 1831, p. 199, paragraph 23).
  5. Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 14: Saaz Circle , Prague 1846, p. 262, paragraph 25).
  6. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 6, Leipzig and Vienna 1906, p. 699 .
  7. ^ Sudetenland Genealogy Network
  8. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Podersam district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/566021/Obec-Blsany
  10. http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/566021/Obec-Blsany