Máslojedy

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Máslojedy
Máslojedy coat of arms
Máslojedy (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Královéhradecký kraj
District : Hradec Králové
Area : 461 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 18 '  N , 15 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '47 "  N , 15 ° 45' 16"  E
Height: 321  m nm
Residents : 217 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 503 03
License plate : H
traffic
Street: Hořiněves - Všestary
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Blanka Karešová (as of 2008)
Address: Máslojedy 75
503 03 Smiřice
Municipality number: 573779
Website : www.maslojedy.cz

Máslojedy (German Maslojed , also Maslowed ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located eleven kilometers northwest of the city center of Hradec Králové (German Königgrätz ) and belongs to the Okres Hradec Králové .

geography

Máslojedy is located between the Bystřice and the Elbe in the foothills of the Horschitzer Bergland. In the west rises the Svíb hill ( Swiep , 330 m). To the west and south-west of the village is the battlefield of the Battle of Königgrätz , remembered by numerous memorial stones. To the north is the Hořiněveska bažantnice nature reserve.

Neighboring towns are Hořiněves in the north, Račice nad Trotinou in the northeast, Rodov and Sendražice in the east, Neděliště in the southeast, Chlum in the south, Čistěves in the southwest, Sadová and Sovětice in the west and Hněvčeves and Benátky in the northwest.

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1241 as a property of the Teutonic Knights Order . Later Máslojedy belonged to the property of the Opatovice monastery . After its destruction by the Hussites in 1468 Petr Kdulincský von Ostroměř became the owner of the Máslojeder estates. A village school opened in 1806.

After the abolition of patrimonial Máslovědy formed a parish in the Königinhof district from 1850 . On July 3, 1866, the warring Prussian and Austrian troops met west of the village in the Swiepwald during the German War . The bloody battle, which also extended to the hill Chlum, went down in history as the battle of Königgrätz . In the war year 1866 the school got its own building. The place has been called Máslojedy since 1919 . According to the Munich Agreement , the village was close to the border with the German Reich from 1938 and residents of the place worked as cross-border commuters at night. On May 11, 1945, the Red Arms occupied the village. In 1949 the community was assigned to the Okres Jaroměř and came after its dissolution on January 1, 1961 to the Okres Hradec Králové. In 1963 the village school was closed. In 1971 it was incorporated into Číštěves and together with it at the beginning of 1989 to Všestary . The municipality of Máslojedy has existed again since 1992.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Máslojedy.

Attractions

  • Marian column
  • Forest Svib ( Swiepwald ) with about 120 memorials to the Battle of Maslowed of 1866, west of the village
  • Fallen cemetery of the battle of Königgrätz
  • Monuments of the Battle of Chlum in 1866, southwest of Chlum and Lípa

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)