Kostelní
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Karlovarský kraj | ||||
| District : | Sokolov | ||||
| Municipality : | Kraslice | ||||
| Area : | 503.29 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 18 ' N , 12 ° 25' E | ||||
| Height: | 690 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 15 (2011) | ||||
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| Street: | Kraslice - Luby | ||||
Kostelní ( German Kirchberg ) is a district of Kraslice in the Czech Republic .
geography
Geographical location
Kostelní is located six kilometers north of Luby near the border with Germany and belongs to the Okres Sokolov . The location is at the eastern foot of the Vysoký kámen (773 m) in the valley of the Zadní Liboc brook . To the north rise the Kuželový vrch (782 m) and Počátecký vrch (818 m), in the east the Vřesový vrch (757 m), south of the Liščí vrch (785 m) and in the northwest the Hintere Kegelberg (755 m).
Neighboring communities
Neighboring towns are Počátky in the north, Na Jitřence and Zátiší in the northeast, Sněžná and Frankovy Domky in the east, Čirá in the southeast, Černá and Valtéřov in the south, Wernitzgrün in the southwest, Kámen in the west and Erlbach , Kegel and Tannenmühle in the northwest.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1158 in a document from the Regensburg Bishop Hartwig II. Von Spanheim , which confirms the ownership of the Waldsassen monastery . In 1358 the monastery sold the Schönbacher Ländchen to Rüdiger von Sparneck . In 1850 the village, which had previously belonged to the Schönbach rulership, became independent and belonged to the Graslitz administrative district.
After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the Graslitz district .
Until the expulsion of the German population after the Second World War, Kirchberg had around 350 inhabitants.
Kostelní has been a part of Kraslice since 1976.
Population development
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Culture and sights
In the village there is the church of St. John, built in the second half of the 12th century in Romanesque style. Aegidius. During a baroque renovation in 1692, panels with reliefs were removed from the Romanesque portal. These slabs of reddish stone were built into the outer south wall. There is no standard interpretation of what the reliefs represent. Today's panels in the church wall are copies, the originals are in the Sokolov District Museum .
South of the church on the edge of the road to Valtéřov are three atonement crosses with an unknown history.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869-2015. Český statistický úřad, December 18, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2016 (Czech).