Mezilesí u Přisečnice

Mezilesí u Přisečnice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Ústecký kraj
District :	Chomutov
Municipality :	Kryštofovy Hamry
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 '  N , 13 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '30 "  N , 13 ° 6' 19"  E
Height:	780  m nm
Residents :	2 (2011)
Postal code :	431 91
License plate :	U
structure
Status:	settlement
administration
Website :	www.krystofovyhamry.cz

Mezilesí ( German  Orpus ) is a district of Kryštofovy Hamry in the Czech Republic . It belongs to the cadastral district of Dolina .

geography

location

Mezilesí is located on the ridge of the Middle Ore Mountains near the border with Germany and southeast of the Velký Špičák ( Great Spitzberg ). The village is located on the upper reaches of the Czech as Přísečnice designated Preßnitz .

Neighboring places

Černý Potok		Vodní nádrž Přísečnice
Kovářská		Dolina
Horní Halže	Měděnec	Kotlina

history

Mezilesí (Kryštofovy Hamry)

The first written mention of the village Orpus near the border with Saxony comes from the year 1712. However, it was probably already in the 14th century, d. H. Mining started long before the small settlement was mentioned. The most important iron ore mines in the central Ore Mountains were located in Orpus between the 16th and 19th centuries . The largest colliery in Orpus was the "Dorotheazeche", which is already documented in a document from 1577. The “Fräuleinzeche”, the “Fischerzeche”, the “Maria Hilfzeche”, the “Sieben Brüderzeche” and the “Hilfe Gotteszeche” also existed. At that time, Orpus only consisted of a mine and a mountain house. The population of the place fluctuated depending on the mining figures. Only a few miners and their families who had moved from Schmiedeberg and Preßnitz lived permanently in Orpus. They only stayed a few years and then moved on. Between 1794 and 1846 more than 1000 tons of magnetite were mined in the Dorotheazeche . Mining in Orpus only ended in 1965 with the closure of the “Wenceslas Mine”.

Orpus was first mentioned in 1712. Presumably the first houses were built for shift supervisors, miners, mountain carpenters and the art attendant responsible for the mine water supply. Between 1787 and 1945 the number of houses rose from six to 20. The population rose from 81 in 1869 to 96 around 1945.

Orpus belonged to the Preßnitz rule until 1850 . After that the settlement was administered from Dörnsdorf. With the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I in 1918 and the end of Austria-Hungary on October 31, the end of the crown land of Bohemia was sealed. As a result, the Bohemian Orpus was officially incorporated into the new Czechoslovak Republic . After German troops occupied the Sudetenland and with it Orpus in October 1938, it was incorporated into the Preßnitz district in the Reichsgau Sudetenland on October 10, 1938 .

After the end of the Second World War , Czechoslovakia was re-established in 1945 within the borders from the time before the Munich Agreement , to which Orpus now belonged again. Between 1945 and 1946, the predominantly German-Bohemian population was expelled and the place was partially repopulated with Czechs, which drastically reduced the population from 96 in 1930 to 15 in 1950.

The current name "Mezilesí" (freely translated: "between the woods") was introduced in 1949/50 by a decree of the Ministry of the Interior. It refers to its location in the middle of the forest.

In 1960 Mezilesí was placed under the administration of the town of Přísečnice . After the city was dissolved in the course of the construction of the Preßnitz dam in 1974, Mezilesí was incorporated into the municipality of Kryštofovy Hamry. Since then, the place has only had one or two permanent residents.

Until 2002 Mezilesí belonged to the Okres Chomutov in Ústecký kraj .

Development of the population

year population 1869 81 1880 77 1890 91 1900 94 1910 98

year population 1921 83 1930 96 1950 15th 1961 11 1970 1

year population 1980 0 1991 0 2001 1 2011 2

Personalities

• Ferdinand Stamm (born May 11, 1813 in Orpus, † July 29, 1880 in Pötzleinsdorf ), Bohemian-Austrian writer, journalist and politician

Web links

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

• Orpus at www.pressnitzerkreis.de
• Orpus in the local family book of genealogy.net
• Orpus in the book "Bohemian ore mining"
• Orpus / Mezilesí on gov.genealogy.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book "Bohemian ore mining"
2. ↑ Orpus (Mezilesí) on www.zanikleobce.cz
3. ↑ Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869-2015. Český statistický úřad, December 18, 2015, accessed on January 26, 2017 (Czech).