Katovice
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| Basic data | |||||
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Strakonice | ||||
| Area : | 958 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 16 ' N , 13 ° 50' E | ||||
| Height: | 412 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,358 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 387 11 | ||||
| License plate : | C. | ||||
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| Railway connection: | České Budějovice – Plzeň | ||||
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| Status: | Městys | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
| administration | |||||
| Mayor : | Šárka Němečková (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Husovo nám. 5 387 11 Katovice |
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| Municipality number: | 551201 | ||||
| Website : | www.katovice.cz | ||||
Katovice [ ˈkatɔvɪt͡sɛ ] (German Katowitz ) is a minority town in Okres Strakonice in the Czech Republic .
location
Katovice is opposite the confluence of the Novosedelský potok on the left side of the Otava about 6 km west of Strakonice and has around 1300 inhabitants.
Community structure
No districts are shown for Katovice. The location Liboč belongs to Katovice.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1045 in a document from Břetislav I as a donation to the Břevnov monastery . Katovice is documented as a village in 1318.
Katovice has had the status of Městys since 2006 .
Culture and sights
The most important building in the community is the village church ( kostel sv. Filipa a Jakuba ) consecrated to St. Philip and St. Jacob . It goes back to a Romanesque building and was rebuilt several times in later times. The church owes its current appearance to a major renovation in 1587, carried out by Thomassio Rossi di Mendrisio .
In the vicinity of the village, on the highest Katovice mountain ( Katovická hora , 493 m), there was an old Slavic castle wall , which was once called Kněží hora . It was built at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries and served to secure the Strakonice basin. In Okres Strakonice there are three other systems of this type and testify to the strategically important location of this area.
