Horní Počaply

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Horní Počaply
Horní Počaply coat of arms
Horní Počaply (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Středočeský kraj
District : Mělník
Area : 1239 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 25 '  N , 14 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '21 "  N , 14 ° 23' 19"  E
Height: 160  m nm
Residents : 1,264 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 277 03
License plate : S.
traffic
Railway connection: Kolín – Děčín
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 2
administration
Mayor : Jiří Svačina (as of 2007)
Address: Horní Počaply 247
277 03 Horní Počaply
Municipality number: 534790
Website : www.hornipocaply.cz

Horní Počaply ( German  Ober-Potschapl ) is a central Bohemian municipality with 1272 inhabitants (as of September 2006) on the left bank of the Elbe in the Czech Republic . It is located 18 kilometers northwest of Melnik and belongs to the district of the same name . The lowest point of the circle is the surface of the Elbe near the village of Horní Počaply (153 meters).

history

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1286 . The village has been heated by the district heating network since 2000 , which comes from the incineration of waste in the Mělník II power plant .

Administrative history

The history of territorial self-government goes back to 1850. The chronological overview shows the territorial affiliation of the municipality:

  • 1850 Bohemia , Prague district, political district Melnik, judicial district Raudnitz
  • 1855 Bohemia, Leitmeritz district , Raudnitz judicial district
  • 1868 Bohemia, political and judicial district Raudnitz
  • 1939 Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Regional Council District Melnik, Political and Judicial District Raudnitz ad Elbe
  • 1942 State of Bohemia, district councilor Prague, political and judicial district Raudnitz ad Elbe
  • 1945 Country of Bohemia, administrative and judicial district of Roudnice nad Labem
  • 1949 Ústecký kraj, Okres Roudnice nad Labem
  • 1960 Středočeský kraj, Okres Mělník
  • 2003 Středočeský kraj , Okres Mělník , parent municipality with extended jurisdiction: Mělník

Year 1932

In Horní Počáply (721 inhabitants, gendarmerie post , pier, Catholic church) the following trades were registered in 1932: biographer Sokol , brickworks, hairdresser, 4 inns, wheelwright, blacksmith, 3 tailors, 3 shoemakers, 2 bakers, 5 farmers, 3 butchers, 3 general stores, savings and substitute association in Horní Počáplý, builder, 3 seamstresses, 2  tobacconists , 2 carpenters

Attractions

Church of the Assumption with maypole
  • Church of the Assumption of Mary: built as a Gothic church (preserved inside the present church) around the 14th century, first mention from this period. Renewed 1869–1871. It is a nave with a rectangular presbytery and an extension at ground level. A square tower on the west facade, renovated in the 19th century. In the presbytery, cross vaults with wedge-shaped ribs on pyramid-shaped consoles and a sanctuary with a profile frame (high Gothic, end of the 15th century) nave with pointed windows, corner pilasters and turrets. On the left corner of the facade there is a plaque with the year 1871.

Community structure

Districts are:

  • Horní Počaply
  • Křivenice : Independent municipality until 1961, since then part of Horní Počaply. The village is located on the left bank of the Elbe, 7 km northwest of Melnik, in the immediate vicinity of the Mělník power plant. Altitude 161 m nm During his stays in Liběchov , the painter Max Švabinský migrated to Křivenice and prepared here for his monumental work Žně .

traffic

The double-track electrified main line, the Děčín – Prague line (route 090) with the stations (Prague -) Vraňany - Roudnice nad Labem - Ústí nad Labem - Děčín , which was opened in 1850 as the Northern State Railway, runs through the municipality .

Public bus lines connect the municipality with Mělník , Prague, Roudnice nad Labem and Štětí . The S4 (Prague - Vraňany - Hněvice) and R4 (Prague - Kralupy nad Vltavou - Hněvice) passenger trains of the Esko Prague rapid transit network stop at Horní Počaply station (14 passenger trains (Os) daily, 10 on weekends). Express trains and express trains don't stop here.

economy

Among other things, Danzer Bohemia operates a veneer factory in Horní Počaply .

tourism

The Elbe Cycle Path (Cyklotrasa č. 2) Kralupy n. Vlt. - Mělník - Litoměřice - Ústí n. L. - Děčín leads through the place.

literature

  • Emanuel Poche et al. - Umělecké památky Čech. (Art Monuments of Bohemia), Praha, Academia, 1977, s. 413.
  • Okolí Prahy západ. 1. vyd. Praha: Olympia, 1990, p. 273.

Web links

Commons : Horní Počaply  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. ^ Administrative division of Cisleithanien 1850-1918
  3. ^ Official German local register for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  4. Decision of the Ministry of the Interior No. 185/1942 Gbl.
  5. Decree of the President of the Republic No. 121/1945 Gbl. ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aplikace.mvcr.cz
  6. Vládní nařízení č. 3/1949 Sb. ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aplikace.mvcr.cz
  7. ^ Address book of the Czechoslovak Republic for industry, trade, commerce and agriculture , compiled and published by Rudolf Mosse, Prague 1932, Volume I, pp. 343–344. (Czech and German)