Oselce
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Plzeň-jih | ||||
| Area : | 1479 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 26 ' N , 13 ° 40' E | ||||
| Height: | 585 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 351 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 335 01 - 335 46 | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 3 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Miloslav Cikán (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Oselce 2 335 46 Oselce |
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| Municipality number: | 558184 | ||||
| Website : | www.oselce.cz | ||||
Oselce (German Wosseletz , also Woseletz , Wosoletz and Wassenbach , Czech formerly Oselec ) is a municipality with 358 inhabitants in the Czech Republic . It is located nine kilometers southeast of Nepomuk and belongs to the Okres Plzeň-jih . The cadastral area is 1479 hectares.
geography
Oselce is located 585 m above sea level. M. on the edge of a pond landscape in western Bohemia. To the north of it rises the 625 high Bukový vrch. State road 188 runs through the village between European route 49 and Horažďovice .
Neighboring towns are Kotouň, Olší and Podřesanice in the north, Řesanice in the east, Nová Ves in the southeast, Černice in the south, Stupovka and Kvášňovice in the southwest, and Chlumy and Nekvasovy in the west.
history
The first written mention of the Oselce Fortress comes from 1388. In the south-west, in the valley of Nekvasovský potok, at the place of today's one-layer Stupovka, there was the village of Neustupovice, which has been deserted since 1536 .
From 1679 to 1807 the manor was owned by the Janovský z Janovic family. In 1705, under the direction of Giacomo Antonio de Maggi, the conversion of the Oselce Castle into a baroque castle began . The castle brewery, which produced until 1902, can be traced back to 1749.
In 1832 Franz Anton von Boos zu Waldeck acquired the castle from his mother, a born Freiin von Bibra . The future lord of the castle, Victor von Boos zu Waldeck, translated, composed and was considered a patron of the arts. Among his guests in the 1890s were a. a. Jaroslav Vrchlický , Josef Václav Sládek , Josef Svatopluk Machar , Václav Tallich , Oskar Nedbal , Josef Suk and Adolf Hofmeister .
After the Second World War, the property of the Count Boos zu Waldeck was expropriated.
Attractions
- Castle Oselce with castle park
- Baroque granary in the castle park
- Baroque chapel St. Margarethen in the village
- St. Viktor's corner chapel, built in the mid-19th century
- Historic farmhouses
- Brewery museum, set up in 2004, in the house of the municipal office
- Oselce linden tree with a trunk circumference of 5.25 m
- 300-year-old beech on the way to Kotouň with a height of 32 m
- Kloubovka medicinal spring on the way to Kotouň, a chapel was built near it in 1929
- Chapel of St. Margaret on Markétin vrch (662 m) on the road to Chlumy , built in 1691 by Jiří Vojtěch Janovský. After it was desecrated in the course of the Josephine reforms, it was rebuilt by the Boos-Waldeck family.
- Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kotouň, built 1703–1705
- Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk in Nová Ves, built in the first half of the 19th century
- Čertův hrad between Nová Ves and Nezdřev , a heap of boulders that, according to legend, the devil put there to build a castle. There is a small chapel by the pond along the way.
Community structure
The districts of Kotouň ( Kottaun ) and Nová Ves ( Neudorf ) as well as the hamlets and layers of Olší, Podřesanice and Stupovka belong to the municipality of Oselce .
