Kunětice

Kunětice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Pardubický kraj
District :	Pardubice
Area :	395 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 4 '  N , 15 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '14 "  N , 15 ° 49' 37"  E
Height:	221  m nm
Residents :	328 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	533 04
License plate :	E.
traffic
Street:	Ráby - Sezemice
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Jana Šilarová (as of 2018)
Address:	Kunětice 58 533 04 Sezemice
Municipality number:	573515
Website :	www.obeckunetice.cz

Church of St. Bartholomew

Statue of St. John of Nepomuk

Elbe bridge

Kunětice ( German  Kunietitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers northeast of the city center of Pardubice and belongs to the Okres Pardubice .

geography

Kunětice is located on the right side of the Elbe in the Pardubická kotlina ( Pardubice Basin ). To the northwest rises the striking Kunětická hora ( Kunietitz mountain , 307 m nm) with the castle of the same name .

Neighboring towns are Kladivo, Dříteč and Dražkov in the north, Lukovna and Choteč the northeast, Labská and Sezemice in the east, Počaply the southeast, Počapelské Chalupy, Spojil and Dubové návrší in the south, Hůrka, Cihelna and Brozany in the southwest, Ráby the west and Němčice in Northwest.

history

Archaeological finds show that the area has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age . Remains of the oldest Slavic settlement date from the 8th century. In the area of ​​the church, body graves with bronze ear clips ( záušnice ) from the 11th century were found; this indicates that a wooden chapel already stood in its place at that time. It is believed that the village originally belonged to the Kunburg estates .

The first written mention of the village took place in 1353 as the property of the Benedictine monastery Opatowitz , the castle was already abandoned at this time. There is evidence of a parish church since 1376. After the monastery was looted and burned down by the Hussites under Diviš Bořek von Miletínek in 1421 , the latter seized the extensive possessions. In 1436, King Sigismund signed large parts of the former monastery property over to Diviš Bořek as a reward for his loyal service in the Battle of Lipan for 4500 shock Bohemian groschen, who formed the Kunburg domain. At the end of the 15th century Wilhelm von Pernstein acquired the dominions of Pardubitz and Kunburg and united them. In 1521 Wilhelm von Pernstein bequeathed his Bohemian goods to his younger son Vojtěch , after his death in 1534 they fell to his brother Johann . In 1548 Johann von Pernstein left his son Jaroslav in debt. On March 21, 1560 Jaroslav von Pernstein sold the entire rule of Pardubitz to King Ferdinand I. His successor Maximilian II transferred the administration of the royal lords to the court chamber . During the Thirty Years' War the parish of Kunětice became extinct and the church became a branch church of the parish of Sezemitz . At the end of the 18th century, a pub was set up in Kunětice on account of the Religious Fund. In 1788 a school was opened. In 1792 the church burned down.

In 1835 the village Kunietitz or Kunětice in the Chrudim district consisted of 37 houses in which 300 people, including a Jewish family, lived. Under the patronage of the religious fund was the branch church of St. Bartholomäus, under the imperial patronage of the school. Kunietitz was vicarage for Raab , Niemtschitz , Srch , Sand Village , Brozan , Alt-Hradischt and New Hradischt ; The Sezemitz pastor received the tithe from the parish places. Until the middle of the 19th century, Kunietitz remained subordinate to the kk cameraman Pardubitz.

After the abolition of patrimonial Kunětice formed from 1849 with the district Ráby a municipality in the judicial district of Pardubice . From 1868 the municipality belonged to the political district of Pardubitz . In 1869 Kunětice had 388 inhabitants and consisted of 53 houses. Ráby became independent in the 1870s. In the years 1881–82 the construction of a new schoolhouse for three-class classes took place. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1885. In 1900 361 people lived in the village, in 1910 there were 293. In 1930 Kunětice had 319 inhabitants. A ferry crossed the Elbe south of the village. The area by the ferry, planted with bushes, served as a playground and, in winter, as an ice rink when it was flooded; the Elbe was used for swimming in summer. The Elbe ferry had to shut down regularly in the summer months; the river could be waded on foot, as it was only one meter deep in the middle third. On the night of June 21, 1944, bombs fell on fields on the outskirts of Kunětice during an Allied air raid on the industrial plants of Pardubitz. In 1947 the Elbe ferry was replaced by a Bailey bridge , creating a road connection to Sezemice . In 1949 Kunětice was assigned to the Okres Pardubice-okolí. Since 1960 the community has belonged again to Okres Pardubice . The bathing area at the new Elbe bridge became muddy after the construction of the Opatovice power plant, as the river no longer froze over in winter and the sludge that had settled was grazed. In 1961 it was incorporated into Ráby. The river bathing came to a complete standstill with the expansion of the Elbe as a waterway for shipping to the Opatovice power station in 1975. The school was closed in 1982. Kunětice has existed again since November 24, 1990. In the 2001 census, 254 people lived in the 88 houses in Kunětice.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Kunětice.

Attractions

• Kunětická Hora Castle
• Gothic Church of St. Bartholomew from the 15th century. During the reconstruction after the fire of 1792, the old grave tablets were made into door sills and floor slabs, so that their inscriptions were lost. The tower was added to the west facade in 1897 as part of the neo-Gothic restoration by Franz Schmoranz the Elder. A.
• Rectory, in 2012 it was restored
• Baroque statue of St. John of Nepomuk from the 18th century, the high sandstone base dates from 1852
• Sandstone cross on the church, created in 1852
• Memorial stone for the fallen of the First World War, unveiled in 1928
• Steel truss bridge over the Elbe, the Bailey Bridge built between 1946 and 1948 as part of the UNRRA program is a technical monument

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 524

Web links

• History of Kunětice

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/573515/Kunetice
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 5: Chrudimer Kreis. Prague 1837, pp. 71-72
4. ↑ silniční most ÚSKP 13263 / 6-5169 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).