Otov

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Otov
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Otov (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Plzeňský kraj
District : Domažlice
Area : 711.0264 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 29 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '11 "  N , 12 ° 50' 51"  E
Height: 412  m nm
Residents : 102 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 345 22
License plate : P
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Street: Poběžovice - Pařezov
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Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Miroslav Javorský (as of 2014)
Address: Otov 56
345 22 Poběžovice
Municipality number: 566209
Website : www.otov.cz

Otov (German Wottawa ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located four kilometers southeast of Poběžovice and belongs to the Okres Domažlice .

geography

Otov is located on the left bank of the Černý potok in Chodská pahorkatina. The Větrný vrch ( Futschaberg , 468 m) rises to the northeast , the Červený vrch ( Rother Berg , 498 m) to the southeast, the Pařezovský vrch ( Parisauberg , 485 m) to the south and the Dublovická hora ( Doblowitzberg , 482 m) to the south-west . To the north of the village lies the Otovský rybník pond fed by the Vlkanovský potok. The Domažlice – Tachov railway runs to the west, and the next stop is Vlkanov .

Neighboring towns are Zámělíč and Ohnišťovice in the north, Meclov in the Northeast, Mračnice, Březí, Bozdíš and Dolni Baldov the east, Baldov, Luženice, Luženičky and Draženov the southeast, Ždanov and Stary Pařezov in the south, Papírna, Podhamří, Postřekov and Mlýnec in the southwest, Nový Kramolín and Vlkanov in the west and Šitboř and Poběžovice in the northwest.

history

Otov was first mentioned in a document in 1239, when King Wenceslaus I assigned the village and other localities to the Kladruby monastery . In 1379 the village was listed in the Pilsen berní rula. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Vladiken family Rochce von Otov resided in Otov, who descended from the Příchovský of Příchovice and was in the service of the Dobrohošť family of Ronšperk. The manor was south of the village; a Fixed did not exist in Otov. Since 1537 Otov belonged to the Ronšperk domain . In the berní rula of 1654 ten farmers are listed for Wottawa. The first written evidence about the Wottawaer mill comes from 1657. In 1757 there were 21 farmers in Wottawa. After the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1774, the Wottawa children were educated in Metzling , where the village was also parish.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Wottawa / Otov 1850 with the districts Altparisau and New Parisau a municipality in the judicial district Bischofteinitz . Since 1869 the community belonged to the district Bischofteinitz . In 1871 a school of its own was opened in Wottawa, and classes were held in German. In 1913, 331 people lived in Wottawa's 51 houses. 111 children were taught in three classes at the school. The Counts Coudenhove-Kalergi on Ronsperg managed the Meierhof . In 1930 there were 715 people living in Wottawa. After the Munich Agreement , Wottawa was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the Bischofteinitz district . In 1939 the community had 719 inhabitants and consisted of 66 houses. In the last days of the Second World War, six young Czechs from Postřekov tried to prevent the SS from transporting the supplies from the mill. They were taken prisoner and tortured to death. According to another representation, six partisans wanted to disarm some dispersed German soldiers on May 4th. The local chronicle of the nearby village of Mlýnec (Linz) says: "The consequence of this carelessness was the death of six young boys from Possigkau who believed they would still earn laurels at the end of the war." On May 10, 1945, Czech partisans attacked the German civilian population in Wottawa, killing four residents and two German soldiers; on June 10, another eight residents were abducted without ever reappearing.

After the end of World War II, most of the Germans were expelled from Otov and the Czechs settled. Since 1960 the Otov municipality has belonged to the Okres Domažlice . In 1961 Otov was incorporated into Nový Kramolín . The school closed in 1972 and the children have been educated in Poběžovice ever since. In the 1980s, the Meierhof and the mill were demolished; Prefabricated buildings were built on the village square. Between 1985 and 1990 Otov belonged to Poběžovice as a district . In the 1991 census, 114 people lived in Otov's 32 houses.

Attractions

  • Wayside shrine, south of the village on the dirt road to the former farm
  • Memorial stone at the former mill for six young Czechs from Postřekov , who were murdered in the mill by the SS on May 4, 1945, unveiled in 1955
  • Natural monument Červený vrch
  • Remnants of mining tunnels on feldspar on Větrný vrch and Červený vrch

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/566209/Otov
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Bischofteinitz. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  4. ^ Franz Lang: Linz in the Bohemian Forest. Chronicle of an old settlement. Ortenberg / Tauberbischofsheim 1986, pp. 26-27
  5. ^ Franz Lang: Linz in the Bohemian Forest. Chronicle of an old settlement. Ortenberg / Tauberbischofsheim 1986, pp. 20-23, pp. 26-28

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