Ropice

Ropice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Moravskoslezský kraj
District :	Frýdek-Místek
Area :	1010 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 42 ′  N , 18 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 47 "  N , 18 ° 36 ′ 20"  E
Height:	310  m nm
Residents :	1,642 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	739 56
License plate :	T
traffic
Street:	Český Těšín - Jablunkov
Railway connection:	Český Těšín - Frýdek-Místek Žilina – Bohumín
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Uršula Waniová (as of 2008)
Address:	Ropice 110 739 61 Třinec 1
Municipality number:	556971
Website :	www.ropice.cz

Ropice (Polish Ropica , German Roppitz , also Ropitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers south of Český Těšín and belongs to the Okres Frýdek-Místek .

geography

Ropice is located in the Ropičanka valley in the Beskid foothills near the border with Poland. The state road 11 / E 75 and the railway line Český Těšín – Frýdek-Místek with the stations Ropice and Ropice zálesí runs through the municipality . The Žilina – Bohumín railway passes to the north, where the Ropice zastávka stop is located on the headland between Ropičanka and Olsa . To the east is the industrial area of Třinec . There is a golf course southwest of Ropice.

Neighboring places are Rakovec, Svibice, Český Těšín and Błogocice in the north, Punców in the northeast, Konska in the east, Staré Město, Třinec and Canada in the southeast, Nebory in the south, Rakovec and Střítež in the southwest, Kozačinec and Vělopolí in the west and Koza Žčinecov, and Horní Žukinecov and Dolní Žukov in the northwest.

history

Ropice was created at the transition from the 12th to the 13th century. The first written mention of the village took place in 1305 in the tithe register of the diocese of Wroclaw . At the beginning of the 15th century a festival was established. Since 1430, the family of the Sobek von Kornice (Sobek von Kornitz) can be traced as the owner of the estate. Rudolf Sobek von Kornice died in 1693, the subsequent owner was Philippe de Saint Genois. He had the fortress transformed into a baroque palace. Karl Saint Genois sold the manor in 1785 to Gabriele Countess Cselesta, née Skrbenský von Hříště. The Lords of Mattencloid acquired the property from the Cselesta of Cselestin. In 1804 the village consisted of 101 houses and had 732 inhabitants. There was a castle chapel in the castle. The inhabitants of the village lived mainly from agriculture. In addition, there was a brick factory, a quarry, as well as three grinding mills, a linen mill and a sawmill on the Ropičanka.

After the abolition of patrimonial Roppitz formed a community in the Teschen district from 1850. During this time, iron ore was mined, which was processed in the Trzynietz ironworks. The neighboring ironworks also became an employer for many of the residents. In 1862 Emanuel Spens-Boden bought the castle. In 1871 the railway from Kaschau to Oderberg was built north of Roppitz . The railway from Teschen to Friedeck , inaugurated in 1886, ran directly through the town.

From 1920 the place belonged to the Český Těšín district. In 1926 Hermann Kuenburg-Spens became the owner of the castle. In 1938 Ropica came to Poland as part of the Olsa region . From 1939 to 1945 Roppitz belonged to the Teschen district and returned to Czechoslovakia after the end of the war. In 1945 the Counts of Kuenburg-Spens would be expropriated and the property incorporated into the state property. Since then, the castle has served as a residential and administrative building, and the necessary maintenance measures have not been taken on the building. After the dissolution of the Okres Český Těšín, the community was assigned to the Okres Frýdek-Místek in 1961. In 1980 Ropice was incorporated under the name Třinec XV-Ropice after Třinec , since 2000 the community exists again. In 2004 an 18-hole golf course opened .

A strong Polish minority lives in Ropice, to which almost 29% of the population belong (2001).

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Ropice. The settlements Kozačinec and Rakovec belong to Ropice.

Attractions

Ropice Castle (2012)

• Parish Church of the Annunciation, built in 1806 by the master builder Anton Englisch from Opava
• Ropice Castle, the baroque building was built after 1700 for Philippe de Saint Genois in place of the old fortresses, in 1810 Karl Cselesta had it remodeled by Cselestin in the classical style, and in 2008 preparatory work began to renovate the ruinous castle into a golf hotel
• Baroque tomb of the Saint Genois family, built in 1742
• Classical tomb of the Cselesta von Cselestin family from 1802
• Tombs of the Spens-Booden and Kuenburg-Spens families

Web links

Commons : Ropice  - collection of images, 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. ↑ Hosák, Ladislav - Šrámek, Rudolf: Místní jména na Moravě a ve Slezsku I – II. Prague