Knapovec

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Knapovec
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Knapovec (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Pardubický kraj
District : Ústí nad Orlicí
Municipality : Ústí nad Orlicí
Area : 695 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 58 '  N , 16 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '32 "  N , 16 ° 26' 58"  E
Height: 444  m nm
Residents : 334 (2011)
Postal code : 562 01
License plate : E.
structure
Status: District
Church in Knapovec, built 1832–34 and consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul

Knapovec (German: Knappendorf , also Knoppndoff and 1292 Chappendorf ) is a municipality part of the city of Ústí nad Orlicí in the district of Ústí nad Orlicí in the East Bohemian region of Pardubický kraj in the Czech Republic .

location

The district is 444 m above sea level. M. (after Gauglitz 422 m above sea level) between the towns of Dlouhá Třebová and Ústí nad Orlicí and its districts Horní Houžovec and Dolní Houžovec . The village basically consists of three parts: an upper part runs along road 315, Ústí nad Orlicí - Lanškroun; the second part is located in a deep valley along the Knapovecký brook, which flows into the Třebovka ; the third consists of houses that extend on both sides of the slopes of the local stream up to the plateau. Originally the cottagers and craftsmen settled in the valley floor, while the farmhouses and the church stood on the plateau.

history

Knapovec was first mentioned in 1292. The current district is one of the oldest church villages in the region (a rectory was mentioned in a document as early as 1349; the old church stood in the middle of today's cemetery and was destroyed in 1623). In 1366, the inheritance court letter was renewed to the testator Hanus von Knappendorf by the Litomist Bishop Albrecht von Sternberg . Accordingly, in 1366 the place consisted of 26 peasant communities and three mills. After the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the plague epidemics in Bohemia, Knapovec is said to have only 80 inhabitants at times.

Population development

A predominantly German-speaking population lived in Knapovec until the Second World War . According to a census from 1930, the place had 150 (after another 144) houses with 698 (after another 620) inhabitants (683 of them German-speaking, 15 Czech-speaking). After 1945/46 or after the Second World War, the German-speaking population was expelled and the number of houses was reduced to 98 according to a count from 1950.

year 1843 1869 1880 1890 1900 1910 1921 1930 1950 1961 1970 1980 1991 2001 2011
population 698 685 694 652 663 650 597 620 336 308 267 324 280 295 334
Population development of Knapovec

  • Knapovec - house number 127

  • Knapovec - house number 70

  • Knapovec - house number 71

  • Panoramic view of Knapovec

Natural monuments

In Knapovec there are old linden trees, which are shown as natural monuments on hiking maps.

  • Knapovec - památné lípy 1.jpg
  • Lípa u božích muk v Knapovci 01.jpg
  • Knapovec - památné lípy 02.jpg
  • Knapovec - památné lípy.jpg
  • Knapovec - památné lípy 03.jpg

Web links

Commons : Knapovec  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Knappendorf on the website Der Schönhengstgau . Accessed: August 14, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uir.cz
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Franz JC Gauglitz: Heimat Kreis Landskron. Home book for the city and district of Landskron. Compiled and edited. Zluhan, Bietigheim 1978, p. 204 ff.
  3. ↑ Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869–2011 .