Pec pod Čerchovem
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Domažlice | ||||
| Area : | 794.8692 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 24 ' N , 12 ° 50' E | ||||
| Height: | 507 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 237 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 345 33 | ||||
| License plate : | P | ||||
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| Street: | Trhanov - Babylon | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Robert Janek (as of 2019) | ||||
| Address: | Pec 58 344 01 Domažlice |
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| Municipality number: | 554090 | ||||
| Website : | obecpec.cz | ||||
Pec (German blast furnace ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located eight kilometers southwest of Domažlice ( Taus ) and belongs to the Okres Domažlice .
geography
Pec is located at the foot of the Čerchov ( Schwarzkopf ) in the southeast of the Upper Palatinate Forest (Český les) in a side valley of the Černý potok surrounded by forests .
Neighboring towns are Chodov ( Meigelshof ) in the north, Trhanov ( Chodenschloß ) and Pila ( Schneidawerk ) in the northeast, Babylon ( Babilon ) in the west, Česká Kubice ( Bohemian Kubizen ) and Nová Kubice ( German Kubizen ) in the southwest, Dolní Folmava ( Unter Vollmau ) in the south, Zámeček in the south-west and Capartice in the north-west.
history
The first mention of Pec comes from the year 1652, when the bailiff of the Chodenschloß , Melchior von Aschenbach, had a blast furnace and an ironworks built in the valley below the Schwarzkopf . In addition, administrative buildings and a settlement for the smelters were built, which were named "Officina Ferea" or "Blast Furnace". On the occasion of the last smelting in the Laminger works, the iron merchant Matěj Wáchal had a cast-iron cross erected in 1803.
After the iron smelting was stopped, a glassworks was built in 1809 in place of the old facilities, which produced until 1860. In the 19th century, the main occupation for the residents of the village was logging as well as tool and shoemaking. In 1869 the blast furnace had 545 inhabitants, in 1910 there were 626. At the beginning of the 20th century the village developed into a popular summer resort. In 1930 460 people lived in the blast furnace, most of whom belonged to the German ethnic group. After the Munich Agreement , blast furnace was added to the German Reich and first belonged to the district of Markt Eisenstein and from 1940 to 1945 to the district of Waldmünchen . After the end of World War II, Pec came back to Czechoslovakia and the German residents were expelled.
With the erection of the Iron Curtain, the Čerchov became a restricted military area and tourism came to a standstill. Later Pec was incorporated into Chodov. The village school closed in the 1970s. Since 1991 Pec has been an independent municipality again.
Attractions
- Chapel of St. Procopius, built in 1908
- Memorial cross for Matěj Wáchal and the Lamingerhütte
- Scrap wood houses
- Čerchov with the short tower
- Lumberjack Museum, in the municipal office building
Personalities
- Jaroslav Špillar (1869–1917), the painter, set up his studio in Pec
- Jan František Hruška (1865–1937), the writer and ethnographer, was born in Pec
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/554090/Pec
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
