Pohořany
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Ústecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Litoměřice | ||||
| Municipality : | Žitenice | ||||
| Area : | 674.0642 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 34 ' N , 14 ° 10' E | ||||
| Height: | 310 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 354 (March 1, 2001) | ||||
| Postal code : | 411 41 | ||||
| License plate : | U | ||||
Pohořany , German Pohorschan , is a clustered village on the southwest slope of the Goldberg in Ústecký kraj in the Czech Republic . It belongs to the municipality of Žitenice and is located about three kilometers north of the town of Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) in the right Elbe part of the Bohemian Central Uplands .
geography
Northwest of the village, immediately behind the last houses, rises the 584 m high wooded Křížova hora ( Kreuzberg ) and the somewhat lower Rabenstein.
Neighboring towns are Myštice in the northeast, Maškovice in the east, Podviní in the south, Žitenice in the southwest, Močidla in the west and Skalice in the northwest.
history
In 1057 Pohorschan belonged to the Leitmeritz collegiate chapter . 1421 During the Hussite War it came to the Lords of Ruppau (Roupowa). In 1620 18 houses came to the Schüttenitz estate of the Vysehrad chapter and the others to the chapter of St. Stephan in Leitmeritz. 1736 belonging to the Ploschkowitz estate with a sheep farm and a farm. In 1787 16 of the 61 houses belonged to Schüttenitz. In 1833 Pohorschan had 76 houses with 411 inhabitants, all of whom were German and Catholic. There was also an inn on the mountain road.
In 1930 there were 97 houses with 419 residents in the village. Of these, 392 were Germans, 20 Czechs and 7 foreigners. In 1939 the village had over 90 houses with 386 inhabitants, most of whom spoke German. In their dialect they called their village "Porschn". In 1946 the German population was expelled or expelled except for a few people who lived in a mixed marriage . In 1991 the place had 317 inhabitants. In 2001 the village consisted of 111 houses in which 354 people lived.
literature
- Willibald Teich: The mills of Schüttenitz. 1995
- Willibald Teich: Schüttenitzer reading book, history a. Stories of a North Bohemian Village. 1995
- Willibald Teich, Georg Pohlai: Wie's dahejme wor. Photos from "then" from villages on the southern edge of the Bohemian Central Uplands
- Willibald Teich: The expulsion of the Schüttenitzer. 1998
- Home district Leitmeritz: Leitmeritz and the Bohemian Central Mountains. 2nd edition, Fulda 1994