Jiřice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Nymburk | ||||
| Area : | 837 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 15 ' N , 14 ° 51' E | ||||
| Height: | 247 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 239 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 289 22 | ||||
| License plate : | S. | ||||
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| Street: | Lysá nad Labem - Benátky nad Jizerou | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Miloslav Cibulka (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Jiřice 56 289 22 Lysá nad Labem |
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| Municipality number: | 599581 | ||||
| Website : | www.obecjirice.cz | ||||
Jiřice (German Jirschitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located four kilometers south of Benátky nad Jizerou and belongs to the Okres Nymburk .
geography
Jiřice is located at the northern foot of the Jiřický Kopec hill (250 m) on the Bohemian Table. To the east lies the Končina forest with the Mladá desert and the Jiřice penal institution. The Benátecký vrch (251 m) rises to the northeast.
Neighboring towns are Staré Benátky and Kbel in the north, Lipník and Radenice in the northeast, Boží Dar in the east, Milovice in the southeast, Mladá and Benátecká Vrutice in the south, Stará Lysá in the southwest, Čihadla and Předměřice nad Jizerou in the west, and Kačov and Kochánky in the northwest.
history
The first written mention of Žiřiciech took place in 1479. The western village of Mladá has been documented since 1369. Jiřice, which over time was called Zirzyczych , Girzicz , Girzicze , Jirzycze , Girschitz and Giržicze , was part of the Dražice estate . The parish was the place of the Church of St. Catherine in Mladá. Since 1525 the village belonged to the Benatek rule .
After the abolition of patrimonial Jiřice formed a municipality in the Jung Bolesławiec district from 1850 . In 1869 the village consisted of 47 houses and had 272 inhabitants. By 1898 the population had risen to 334. The establishment of the military training area Milowitz with a shooting range and large training area in the Konczina and Mordwald forest in 1904 was significant for the history of the village . The village of Mlada was dissolved. In 1910 Jirschitz reached the highest population in its history with 449 inhabitants. In 1914 the Milowitz prisoner of war camp was established, in which 46,000 prisoners of war were interned until it was closed in 1916.
After the German occupation, the Wehrmacht took over the Milowitz military training area in 1939 . The residents of the surrounding villages were driven from their homes until 1940. After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak Army took over the military site again. In 1961 Jiřice was incorporated into Benátecká Vrutice and at the same time came to Okres Nymburk . In 1968, in the course of the crackdown on the Prague Spring , the Red Army occupied the military training area and established its headquarters in the Končina Forest. To the east of Jiřice, the Soviets set up an Alexandrovka shooting range. After the withdrawal of the Red Army in 1991, the construction of the Jiřice Penitentiary began in the complex of the main headquarters of the Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. In 1992 the Jiřice commune was established again. The prison opened in 1994 after halfway through the reconstruction of the complex. Work on the prison ended in 2000.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Jiřice.
Attractions
- Bon Repos Castle near Čihadla, southwest of the village
- Bell tower in Jiřice, built in 1818
- Crucifix, on the bell tower
- Marterl
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)