Kunčice nad Labem

Kunčice nad Labem
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Královéhradecký kraj
District :	Trutnov
Area :	306 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 35 '  N , 15 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '54 "  N , 15 ° 37' 38"  E
Height:	407  m nm
Residents :	573 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	543 61
License plate :	H
traffic
Street:	Hostinné - Jilemnice
Railway connection:	Velký Osek – Trutnov Kunčice nad Labem – Vrchlabí
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Jiří Žďárský (as of 2011)
Address:	Kunčice nad Labem 121 543 61 Kunčice nad Labem
Municipality number:	579424
Website :	www.kuncice.cz

Kunčice nad Labem , until 1990 Kunčice (German Pelsdorf ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers south of Vrchlabí and belongs to the Okres Trutnov .

geography

Kunčice nad Labem extends in the Giant Mountains foothills on the left bank of the Elbe , into which the Sovinka and Vápenický creeks flow. The Hůrka (492 m) rises to the north, the Okrouhlík (468 m) to the northeast, the Čihadlo (525 m) and the Šance (462 m) to the east, the Na Lánech (470 m) to the southeast and the Fejfarův vrch (493 m) to the west m). On the northern outskirts running railway Velký Osek-Trutnov , from the railway station Kunčice nad Labem , the route Kunčice nad Labem-Vrchlabí branches. An 8.25 km cable car leads from the Černý Důl limestone quarries via Kovársko , Malá Sněžka (499 m) and Malý Lánov to the Kunčice nad Labem building materials plant.

Neighboring towns are Podhůří in the north, Dolní Lánov in Notosten, Malý Lánov in the east, Prosečné , Klášterská Lhota and Záseky the southeast, Prašivka, Na Hrádku, Horní Kalná , Příčnice and Na Močidle in the south, Zálesní Lhota in the southwest, Bakov and Martinice v Krkonoších in the west and Dolní Branná in the northwest.

history

In the 12th century an old ford, the kalenská příčnice , ran through the Elbe at the site of the village . It is believed that Kunčice was founded in the 1260s by the Benedictine monastery Heinrichsau located below Klášterská Lhota and that its name derives from the patroness of the monastery, Queen Kunigunde . Until the 15th century Kunčice belonged to the property of the Provosty Wrchlab , which went out at the beginning of the Hussite Wars . The monastery was probably destroyed as early as 1421 by the owners of the neighboring Arnau lordship , the brothers Johann and Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg , older sources indicate that it was destroyed by Jan Žižka in 1424. In 1436 Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg received the goods of the Wrchlab Propstei, including Kunczice as a pledge. This pledge was transferred to the brothers Hynek and Jindřich von Waldstein in 1466 , who attached it to their rule in Štěpanice . Later the village came under the rule of Hohenelbe . In 1518 the name Pelßdorf was first handed down, which is derived from the family name Pelz. Post-colonization by German settlers probably took place at that time. A different origin of this name provides a legend that is also reflected in the local coat of arms. In 1523 the village was called Kunticze ginak Pelczdorff . A festival Kunczicze has been handed down from 1537 . Further forms of the name were Perlsdorff (1559), Pelzdorf (1588), Perlsdorf (1637), Pelstorff (1644) and Pelßdorff (1776). Around 1600 Franz Matzel had a paper mill set up. In the 18th century, home weaving spread as a secondary source of income. School lessons began in 1760 in rented rooms. In 1790 Pelsdorf consisted of 63 houses. In 1813 the school moved into its own school building. In 1834 Pelzdorf / Kunčice consisted of 61 houses and had 381 inhabitants. At that time there was a mill, a board saw and the paper mill of the privileged paper mill of Gabriel Ettel from Hohenelbe in the village. Until the middle of the 19th century, the village always remained subordinate to Hohenelbe.

After the abolition of patrimonial Pelsdorf / Kunčice formed from 1850 a municipality in the judicial district Hohenelbe or in the district Hohenelbe . At that time a wood grinding shop was established. With the advent of industrialization, home weaving died out in the 19th century. Between 1870 and 1871, the Austrian Northwest Railway put the railway lines from Parschnitz to Groß Wossek and the branch line branching off here to Hohenelbe into operation. In 1886 a new school building was inaugurated. The volunteer fire brigade was formed in 1893. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia , the local Czech minority grew strongly. In 1930 the community had 686 inhabitants, 554 of whom were Germans and 128 Czechs. As a result of the Munich Agreement , Pelsdorf was annexed to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Hohenelbe district until 1945 . In 1939, 610 people lived in Pelsdorf. After the Second World War, the place came back to Czechoslovakia and the German population was expelled. In 1968 the České cementárny a vápenice (CEVA) had a modern lime works built near Kunčice. After the Okres Vrchlabí was abolished, Kunčice was assigned to the Okres Trutnov at the beginning of 1961. Since December 18, 1990, the municipality has had the official name Kunčice nad Labem . In 1991 the lime works was privatized as Krkonošské vápenky Kunčice, as ; lime production was stopped in 1997, and mortar and plaster mixtures have been produced since then.

At the lower end of the village, at the foot of the Šance, is the premises of Krkonošské vápenky Kunčice as A cable car for the delivery of limestone from the limestone quarries west of Černý Důl ends at the historic dump truck.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms goes back to a legend according to which fur hunters should have lived in the place. One morning they saw a real bear. They saw it as the chance of their life and killed the animal - much to the annoyance of the bear handler from whom it had escaped.

Local division

No districts are shown for the municipality of Kunčice nad Labem.

Attractions

• Chapel of the Virgin Mary, it was built in 1847 by a donation from the administrator of the Hohenelbe estate, Jan Křikava. As it soon proved to be too small, a half-timbered nave was added in 1906 based on the model of the chapel in Klášterská Lhota.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
2. ↑ http://www.riesengebirgler.de/gebirge/orte/Ortschaften_1.htm
3. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia. Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 3: Bidschower Kreis. Calve, Prague 1835, p. 192.
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hohenelbe district (Czech. Vrchlabí). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).