Opočnice

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Opočnice
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Opočnice (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Středočeský kraj
District : Nymburk
Area : 1114 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 11 '  N , 15 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 10 '30 "  N , 15 ° 15' 59"  E
Height: 224  m nm
Residents : 453 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 289 04
License plate : S.
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Street: Městec Králové - Hradčany
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Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Rostislav Dvorský (as of 2008)
Address: Opočnice 80
289 04 Opočnice
Municipality number: 537578
Website : www.ouopocnice.cz

Opočnice (German Opotschnitz , older also Opochnitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers southwest of Městec Králové and belongs to the Okres Nymburk .

geography

westerly view of the village from the street of Vrbice

Opočnice is located on a ridge of the East Bohemian Table in the headwaters of the Velenický potok ( Velenka ). The hill Vinný vrch (252 m) rises to the west and Na Hřebínku ( Banberg , 271 m) to the south-east .

Neighboring towns are Městec Králové and Běrunice in the northeast, Dlouhopolsko in the east, Hradčany and Stará Báň in the southeast, Kolaje and Vlkov pod Oškobrhem in the southwest, Srbce and Vrbice in the west and Podmoky in the northwest.

history

The place Woppocznici was first mentioned in writing in 1223, when Sezima von Kostomlaty left it to the Benedictine monastery Vilémov . According to another document, the Vilémov abbot Hermann is said to have received the village of Woppocznici and the Bolice fortress as early as 1219. There was a small fortress on the Velenka. In 1288 the village was described as desolate. Later the place came to the Sadská monastery , which in 1367 handed it over to the Prague collegiate monastery of St. Apollinaris . During this time, viticulture was probably started on the southern slope of the ridge between Opočnice and Vrbice. The area was devastated during the Hussite Wars . The northern village and the Bolice fortress were destroyed, as was the Mastnice to the south. Both villages were not rebuilt.

In the first half of the 16th century, the hospital in Český Brod was the owner of the village. Its goods were confiscated in 1547 after the anti-Habsburg uprising by the Bohemian and Roman-German King Ferdinand I and the village was attached to the Poděbrady Chamberlain . During the Thirty Years' War Opočnice was burned down by Electoral Saxon troops in 1624. Swedish troops of Field Marshal Banér later invaded and in 1633 the imperial army under Vitzthum von Eckstädt devastated the village.

In 1858 a farmer found six Byzantine bronze crosses from the 8th and 9th centuries in the field at the earlier fortress , which are now in the Prague National Museum. The find was described by Jan Erazim Vocel .

After the abolition of patrimonial Opočnice formed from 1850 a municipality in the Poděbrady district . On January 1, 1961, the community came to Okres Nymburk.

Community structure

No districts are designated for the municipality of Opočnice. Opočnice includes the corridors of the extinct villages Bolice and Mastnice.

Attractions

  • Church of St. Cyrill and Method, built between 1899–1900 in neo-Renaissance style according to plans by the Poděbrad builder František Proft. The church was consecrated on July 8, 1900. The baroque main altar of St. Alois is a work by Ignaz Raab from the 18th century.
  • Vinný vrch hill, west of the village, natural monument
  • Remains of the Bolice Fortress, north of the village
  • Statue of St. Trinity from 1854, in the park

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Opočnice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. ↑ Antonin Profous: Místní jména v Čechách: Vznik jejich, Původ, význam a změny. Vol. I.-III., Česká akademie věd a umění, Praha