Bořislav

Bořislav
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Ústecký kraj
District :	Teplice
Area :	749,564 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 35 '  N , 13 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '53 "  N , 13 ° 56' 9"  E
Height:	361  m nm
Residents :	385 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	417 63
License plate :	U
traffic
Railway connection:	Řetenice – Lovosice – Česká Lípa – Liberec
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Aleš Navara (as of 2013)
Address:	Bořislav 20 415 01 Teplice
Municipality number:	567469
Website :	www.obec-borislav.cz
Location of Bořislav in the Teplice district

Bořislav (German Boreslau ) is a Czech municipality in Okres Teplice . The place is twelve kilometers southeast of Teplice on the European route 55 between Lovosice .

history

The first written records come from 1169. The village is mentioned on the deed of donation from Vladislav II . He gave Bořislav to the Hospitallers . Bořislav was probably under the rule of the Benedictine monastery in Teplice at the beginning of the 14th century . There is evidence of a parish in the village since 1352. After the Hussite Wars , Teplice and Bořislav belonged to Jakoubek z Vřesovic and in the 16th century to the noble families Fictum and Waldstein . Since 1621 the village belonged to the rule of the Teplitz Counts of Clary-Aldringen .

In the village there was a section of the Serbian road on Teplitzer Weg . At this junction marched during the Napoleonic wars , the Russian and Austrian armies. As a result of these passages, the village was often destroyed and contaminated with diseases.

Community structure

The municipality Bořislav consists of the districts and cadastral districts Bílka ( Pilkau ) and Bořislav ( Boreslau ).

economy

The village has always been characterized by agriculture. Mostly hops and fruit were grown.

Bořislav with Milleschauer

Attractions

In the village there is the Church of St. Catherine from 1717, which was last rebuilt in 1820. In 1903 a Protestant church was added, which was converted into a residential building after the Second World War.

Three kilometers to the south is the Milešovka ( Milleschauer ), the highest mountain in the Bohemian Central Uplands .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Volker Watzka (* 1938), German administrative lawyer and district administrator for the Emmendingen district
• Franz Sitte (1896–1960), worked as a pastor in Bořislav from 1922–1960. He has written a brochure on the history of the parish of Boreslau. Under unexplained circumstances he died on January 8, 1960 in Leitmeritz prison. He was arrested on the way to his sister in Germany. The police believed that the handwriting On the Sunny Side of the Mileschauer contained espionage information.

gallery

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  The Church of Saint Catherine

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  Memorial plaque from Franz Sitte on the church

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  The parish

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  House No. 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/567469/Borislav
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ↑ Kocourková, Květa, Dějiny Bořislavi (The Story of Bořislav), in: Bořislav a okolí v čase (Bořislav and the Surrounding Area in Time), ed. Obec Bořislav (Bořislav Municipality), Bořislav 2014, pp. 10–11, ISBN 978-80-260-7091-7 .
4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/567469/Obec-Borislav
5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/567469/Obec-Borislav
6. ^ Sitte, Franz, Geschichte der Pfarrgemeinde Boreslau , self-published, Boreslau 1936, 36 pp.
7. ↑ The book was published in two languages: Sitte, Franz: Na slunné straně Milešovky - On the sunny side of the Milleschauers . Kapucín Verlag, Duchcov 2011, 152 pages, ISBN 978-80-86467-43-6 .