Křečhoř

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Křečhoř
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Křečhoř (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Středočeský kraj
District : Kolín
Area : 968 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 2 '  N , 15 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '32 "  N , 15 ° 7' 37"  E
Height: 307  m nm
Residents : 483 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 280 02
License plate : S.
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Street: Plaňany - Radovesnice I
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Status: local community
Districts: 3
administration
Mayor : Lubomír Šálek (as of 2019)
Address: Křečhoř 1
280 02 Kolín
Municipality number: 533467
Website : www.krechor.cz
Church of St. Wenceslas and the body of Christ
Křečhoř farm
Monument to the Battle of Kolin

Křečhoř (German Krzeczhorz , 1939–45 Kretschhorsch ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers west of the city center of Kolín and belongs to the Okres Kolín .

geography

Křečhoř is located on a ridge in the Středolabské tabule (table land on the middle Elbe ). To the southwest rises the Křečhoř (333 m nm), in the west of the Mukařov (331 m nm).

Neighboring towns are Vítězov and Kamhajek in the north, Kutlíře in the Northeast, Peklo and Štítary the east, Radovesnice I and Zibohlavy the southeast, Kbel and Lošany in the south, Polní Voděrady , Libodřice and Kocanda in the southwest, Pobori, Hradenín and Chocenice the west and Bříství and Zlaté Slunce in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds prove an early settlement of the Křečhořer Höhe. These include grave finds of the Latène culture from the 4th-3rd centuries. Century BC As well as remains of pit houses of the late Latène culture (2nd – 1st century BC) and of Marcomannic urn graves from the 2nd century. There was a Slavic fortress during the early Middle Ages .

It was first mentioned in writing in 1200, when the Cistercian Sedletz monastery bought lands from the Křečhoř royal court. King Wenceslaus II issued the Cistercians in 1295 an agreed payment for Křečhoř. In 1310, King John of Luxembourg gave the Křečhoř court to his Colonel Marshal Heinrich von Leipa . In 1319 the queen widow Elisabeth Richza bought the farm and donated it to the cathedral chapter of St. Vitus at Prague Castle . Since that time there is evidence of a parish in Křečhoř. Křečhoř owned the Prague cathedral chapter until 1436, after which King Sigismund left the village to Sigmund von Smilowitz. The royal city of Kolín acquired the village from this and added it to their estates. Since 1593 the knight Václav Březský from Ploskovice on Břežany and from 1612 his son Jindřich as the owner of a farm in Křečhoř is documented; in 1651 the court chamber acquired the court of Jan Diviš Březský and united it with the rest of the property of the Kolín Chamber of Commerce in Křečhoř. During the Thirty Years' War, Křečhoř was deserted and the parish became extinct. In 1654 only two farmers are listed in the berní rula , most of the farms were desolate. It was not until 1684 that all properties were restored and managed.

During the Seven Years' War on June 18, 1757, on the heights between Plaňany , Chocenice and Křečhoř, the Prussian and Austrian troops met in the Battle of Kolin . King Frederick II commanded the Prussian army on the edge of the battlefield from the Novoveský vrch hill, which was named Bedřichov ( King Frederick Mountain ) after the battle . Emperor Joseph II had a restaurant built in Neudorf to which the church in Křečhoř was assigned.

In 1843, the rustic village Křečhoř , also called Křečhora or Křeč stará , in the Kauřim district , consisted of 49 houses in which 379 people, including 24 Protestant families, lived. There was a branch church of St. Wenceslas, a school and an inn. The former Meierhof was emphyteized. To Křečhoř was konskribiert which consists of two houses insight Břistew. The Catholic parish was Neudorf, the official place was Kaisersdorf . Until the middle of the 19th century, Křečhoř remained subject to the Kolin rule.

After the abolition of patrimonial Křečhoř formed from 1849 with the districts Bříství, Kamhajek and Kutlíře a municipality in the judicial district of Kolin . From 1868 the village belonged to the Kolin District . In 1869 Křečhoř had 395 inhabitants and consisted of 56 houses. In 1876 another parish was established in Křečhoř; Jan Evangelista Eybl (1840–1901), who also worked as a writer and publicist, was introduced as the first pastor in 1877. In 1898 a memorial was erected on the battlefield of the Battle of Kolin. In 1900 there were 476 people in Křečhoř, compared to 547 in 1910. In 1930 Křečhoř had 451 inhabitants and consisted of 101 houses. In the 2001 census, 416 people lived in the community's 154 houses; 350 of them in the Křečhoř district (117 houses), 39 in Kamhajek (21 houses) and 27 in Kutlíře (16 houses).

Community structure

The community Křečhoř consists of the districts Kamhajek ( Grünberg ), Křečhoř ( Krzeczhorz ) and Kutlíře ( Kutlirz ). The settlement of Bříství ( Brzistew ) and the one-layer Na Krétě also belong to Křečhoř.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Křečhoř and Kutlíře.

Attractions

Sediles in the church
  • Church of St. Wenceslas and the Body of Christ, the Gothic church built at the end of the 13th century was later redesigned in the Empire style. Unique early Gothic sediles have been preserved in the south wall of the choir.
  • The Slavic fortress of Křečhoř, which is protected on three sides by a high rampart, has an area of ​​7.5 to 12.5 hectares. The rampart on the west side was broken through when the monument to the Battle of Kolín was built, and wall remains and early medieval ceramics were found found. A comprehensive archaeological investigation has not yet been carried out.
  • Monument of the shaft near Kolín, erected in 1898 according to plans by Václav Weinzettl . The reliefs were made by the sculptor Mořic Černil.
  • Former rectory

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Josef Skalák (1874–1968), journalist, politician and translator

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/533467/Krechor
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia, vol. 12 Kauřimer Kreis, 1844 p. 231
  4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/533467/Obec-Krechor
  5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/533467/Obec-Krechor