Kralupy u Chomutova

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Kralupy u Chomutova , until 1945 Německý Kralupy (German German Kralup ), was a town in the Okres Chomutov ( Czech Republic ).

Geographical location

The village was in northern Bohemia , southwest of Chomutov ( Komotau ) on the road from Komotau to Klösterle and on the Saubach.

history

Trinity Column from Kralupy - is now in Málkov u Chomutova

Kralup was first mentioned in 1253. The place was initially owned by the Knights Templar . The church already existed as a parish church in 1360, but in its later form only existed since 1796, when it was rebuilt after a fire.

In 1584 the town was granted city rights by Emperor Ferdinand I.

To distinguish it from Kralup an der Vltava (Kralupy nad Vltavou), the place was renamed in German Kralup (Německý Kralupy) in 1872.

At the end of the 19th century, the opencast mine brought an economic boom.

In 1900 Deutsch Kralup had 1,227 inhabitants, 1,222 of whom were German-speaking. After the Munich Agreement German Kralup belonged from 1938 to 1945 for the district of Chomutov , Region of Usti nad Labem , in the Reich District of Sudetenland the German Reich . The German population was expelled after 1945 .

In the 1960s, the city fell victim to the progressive opencast mining and was abandoned. The cadastral area was added to the village of Málkov u Chomutova . The Holy Trinity Column, which was at the market, was first to Libědice ( Libotitz brought) and is since 2012 in Zelená, a district of Malkov.

Demographics

Until 1945 Deutsch Kralup was mostly populated by German Bohemia , which were expelled.

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1845 0818 in 143 houses
1869 0932
1880 1033
1890 1064
1900 1227 including 1222 German speakers
1910 1177
1921 1351
1930 1281
1939 1273
Population since the end of the Second World War
year 1950 1961 1970
Residents 832 873 733

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 14: Saazer Kreis , Prague 1846, pp. 183-184, item 5).
  2. ↑ a b K.K. Central Statistical Commission: Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900 . Volume IX Bohemia (Vienna 1904) p. 374.
  3. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Komotau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '  N , 13 ° 19'  E