Skoky (Žlutice)

Skoky
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Karlovarský kraj
District :	Karlovy Vary
Municipality :	Žlutice
Area :	401.3495 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 6 ' N , 13 ° 6' E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '45 " N , 13 ° 5' 49" E
Height:	624 m nm
Residents :	0 (2008)
Postal code :	364 52
traffic
Street:	Polom - Skoky

Skoky (German Mariastock , also Maria Stock ) is a district of the city of Žlutice ( Luditz ) in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers west of Žlutice and belongs to the Okres Karlovy Vary . Skoky is a well-known Marian pilgrimage site.

geography

location

Skoky is located at the transition from the Duppau Mountains to the Tepler Highlands in a valley basin on the southern slope of the Vraní vrch mountain (630 m) above the Střela valley . The place can only be reached via a two and a half kilometers long road from Polom. To the south and east are the Střela valleys flooded by the Žlutice reservoir and its tributary Ratibořský potok.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Polom in the north, Ratiboř in the northeast, Verušice in the east, Semtěš in the southeast, Mostec and Přestání in the south, Lachovice in the southwest, Sovolusky in the west and Hlineč in the northwest. The southern villages Dolánky ( Dollanka ) and Mlyňany ( Lindles ) have sunk in the reservoir. Martice ( Maroditz ) in the northwest was also dissolved because it was in the catchment area of the dam.

history

The village of Maria Stock on the cadastral map from 1841.

The first mention of the Skoky farm belonging to the Udritsch lordship was in 1518. At that time, the owner was Ursula von Stampach . In the period between 1591 and 1615 the place belonged to the Maroditz rule and then returned to Udritsch. In 1717 a pilgrimage chapel was built after healing. Between 1736 and 1738 the baroque pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was built , which in 1789 became a locality of the Luditz parish and in 1857 a parish church.

Ruins of houses and pilgrimage church in Skoky

Pilgrimage church

Until the abolition of patrimonial Mariastock remained subservient to Udritsch. From 1850 Mariastock, including the Rabenmühle located below the village on the Schnella, formed a community in the Luditz district . In 1900 the place consisted of 26 houses and 144 inhabitants. In 1930, 158 people lived in the agricultural town. After the Munich Agreement , the largely German-populated village was added to the German Reich in 1938, and until 1945 it belonged to the Luditz district . In 1939 Mariastock had 134 inhabitants.

After the Second World War, the place came back to Czechoslovakia and the German residents were expelled. In 1950 the Okres Žlutice was abolished and Skoky was assigned to the Okres Toužim. At the same time, Mlyňany was incorporated. During the territorial reform of 1960, the Okres Toužim was dissolved and Skoky was incorporated into Žlutice. Since that time the place belongs to the Okres Karlovy Vary.

In the 1960s, when the drinking water dam on the Střela was built, the village was dissolved. Only three farms around the church have been preserved. These were later abandoned and fell into disrepair. In 2006 the city of Žlutice decided in its development plan to restore the rural settlement of Skoky to a limited extent.

Attractions

Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the two-tower baroque building visible from afar, was built in the years 1736–1738 on a terrace in the valley of the Dorfbach

Žlutice dam, completed in 1968

Web links

Commons : Skoky - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/797740/Skoky-u-Zlutic

[2] ttp://www.zlutice.cz/meu/predpisy/pdf/vy_1_06.pdf