Chotěšov
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Plzeň-jih | ||||
| Area : | 2681 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 39 ' N , 13 ° 12' E | ||||
| Height: | 358 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 2,884 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 332 14 - 333 01 | ||||
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| Railway connection: | Plzeň – Furth in the forest | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 5 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Daniel Koláček (as of 2019) | ||||
| Address: | Plzeňská 88 332 14 Chotěšov |
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| Municipality number: | 557838 | ||||
| Website : | www.obec-chotesov.cz | ||||
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Chotěšov (German Chotieschau ) is a municipality in the Okres Plzeň-jih in the Czech Republic .
Geographical location
The village is located in western Bohemia on the left side of the Radbuza ( Radbusa ) on a tributary of the river in the Plzeňská kotlina ( Pilsen Basin ), 3 km northeast of Stod ( Staab ), 17 km southwest of Pilsen and about 100 km southwest of Prague .
State road 26 between Pilsen and Staňkov and the railway line from Pilsen to Domažlice run through the village . In the south, across the river, rises the 487 m high Křížový vrch . The cadastral area is 2681 ha.
Neighboring towns are Hoříkovice, Týnec and Zbůch in the north, Vodní Újezd in the east, Bayerův Důl and Vstiš in the southeast, Losina, Mantova and Pančava in the south and Stod in the southwest.
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1115. In 1202, the Count Hroznata von Ovenec founded the Premonstratensian monastery Chotěšov , which allowed the place to grow rapidly and give it supraregional importance.
On January 18, 1421, the monastery owned place and the monastery were destroyed by the Hussites . The monastery was only partially restored, and a new baroque complex was not built until 1756 under Jakob Auguston . After the dissolution of the monastery in the course of the Josephine reforms , Chotieschau fell to the religious fund on March 22, 1782. In 1822 Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis acquired the manor of Chotieschau for 1,080,000 guilders.
With the replacement of the manorial lords and inheritance in Bohemia, Chotěšov became an independent municipality in 1850. The construction of the railway from Pilsen to Furth im Wald brought the town an economic boom in 1861, and in the same year the mining of hard coal began. In 1878 the Salesians rented the empty monastery buildings. At the beginning of the 20th century there was a brewery on site .
After the First World War , the region was added to the newly created Czechoslovakia in 1919 . In 1925 the landed property of the Princely House of Thurn und Taxis was confiscated as part of the land reform . In 1937 the nuns acquired the convent building and garden from the Thurn und Taxis house for a symbolic price.
Due to the Munich Agreement , the place came to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the district of Mies , administrative district of Eger , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland until 1945 . The largest of the mines near Týnec, which between 1919 and 1938 was called the Masaryk colliery (Masarykův důl), was continued as the Hermann Göring shaft until 1945 , but its shafts were located in the corridors of Zwug . In 1939 the school in the monastery was closed and an old people's home was set up for the sisters.
After the Second World War , the German-speaking population of Chotieschau was expropriated and expelled . Most of the German residents came to Bavaria as displaced persons . The old people's home in the monastery was closed in 1950 when the Czechoslovak army moved into the building. In 1973 the army gave up the property; the damage from 23 years of military use as barracks amounted to 10 million crowns.
In 1991 the community took over the monastery. The order received back part of the facilities that it had acquired in 1937 and handed it over to the Diocese of Pilsen . The municipality owns approx. 37,000 m² of the monastery area with an area of 68,000 m². A citizens' association was founded to maintain the facilities and a small museum was built in the monastery.
A sports airfield for microlight aircraft is operated on the western edge of the town. The Metálka industrial park was created from former coal mining facilities, which had been shut down since the 1970s. The largest employers are the cable manufacturer MD Elmont sro and the production company of the German drive element manufacturer GERWAH sro
Demographics
Until 1945, Chotieschau was predominantly populated by German Bohemia , which were expelled.
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1785 | k. A. | 82 houses |
| 1837 | 1055 | in 97 houses, including an Israelite family |
| 1900 | 2007 | German-speaking residents |
| 1921 | 2770 | including 2089 German residents |
| 1930 | 2855 | |
| 1939 | 2686 |
Community structure
The districts of Hoříkovice ( Horikowitz ), Losina ( Lossin ), Mantov ( Mantau ) and Týnec ( Teinitzl ) as well as the hamlet Pančava and the industrial area Metálka belong to the municipality of Chotěšov .
Attractions
- Chotěšov abbey with museum
- Parish Church of the Birth of Mary, built in 1366
- Marian column from 1687
- Statue of St. John Nepomuk from 1700
- Křížový vrch with a lookout tower and a former church
Personalities
- Karl Croy (* 1864 in Chotieschau, † 1923 in Teplitz-Schönau), Dipl.-Ing. (Bergakademie Pribram), 1890 to 1914 general director of Duxer Kohlenvereins-AG in Teplitz-Schönau
- Franz Kraus (* 1879 in Chotieschau, † 1962), publisher
- FX Margold (* 1887 in Chotieschau, † 1967), important painter and architect
literature
- Anton Herzig (†), Siegfried Dolleisch: The municipalities of the district of Mies. Their history up to 1945 and the fate of their German population. Self-published "Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen", Dinkelsbühl 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812414-0-2 .
- Volk, Friedebert: Kirchsprengel und Kloster Chotieschau, 2nd edition 1986, Dinkelsbühl
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ a b Staab . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 18, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 803 .
- ↑ Jaroslaus Schaller : Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Volume 9: Pilsner Kreis. Prague 1788, pp. 99-103, paragraph 1 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 6: Pilsner Kreis. Prague 1838, p. 110, paragraph 1z ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Sudetenland Genealogy Network
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Mies district (Czech Stríbro). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands. Volume 1: A – H- published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 214.
- ^ Community website, history