Světec

Světec
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Ústecký kraj
District :	Teplice
Area :	1234.2902 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 34 ' N , 13 ° 49' E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '13 " N , 13 ° 48' 56" E
Height:	210 m nm
Residents :	1,050 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	417 53
License plate :	U
traffic
Railway connection:	Trmice – Bílina
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	4th
administration
Mayor :	Barbora Bažantová (as of 2013)
Address:	Zámek 1 ; 417 53 Světec
Municipality number:	567841
Website :	www.obec-svetec.cz
Location of Světec in the Teplice district

Světec (German: Schwaz ) is a municipality in Okres Teplice in the Czech Republic . 930 inhabitants live on an area of 1234 hectares. The municipality belongs to the micro-region Svornost ("Eintracht") .

history

Swetiz was first mentioned in writing in 1209; other spellings were Sowez , Swietecz and Swietetz . The history of the place is closely linked to the fate of the St. Augustine Monastery, which was founded by the Knights' Order of Women with the Red Cross - keeper of God's grave . It was attacked by the Hussites in 1419 and completely destroyed in 1421. The nuns fled to the woods near pearl barley . The last surviving nun hid the sanctuary of the destroyed monastery in a tree. The discovery of this sanctuary is closely linked to the founding legend of Mariaschein near Graupen.

Until the 18th century Světec was a purely rural village, when brown coal deposits were discovered there. The Archbishops founded the Florentini and Patria I – III mines . The church lands were confiscated by Czechoslovakia in 1918 .

On October 1, 1938, the place came to Germany as part of the Sudetenland . From 1943 there was a penal camp in Schwaz.

The former districts of Chotovenka (Kuttowenka) , Krupá (Kruppei) , Lyskovice (Liskowitz) and Pohradice (Poratsch) fell victim to lignite mining after the Second World War .

Attractions

The baroque Světec Castle was built in 1675–1682 by the Italian architect Antonio della Porta on the site of the old Romanesque monastery from the 13th century. The two-story building is surrounded by a large park.

Community structure

The municipality of Světec consists of the districts Chotějovice (Kuttowitz) , Štrbice (Stürbitz) , Světec (Schwaz) and Úpoř (Auporsch) . Basic settlement units are Chotějovice, Chotějovice-u Bíliny, Chotovenka ( Kuttowenka ), Světec, Světec-jih, Štrbice and Úpoř-Pohradice.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Chotějovice, Chotovenka, Pohradice ( Poratsch ), Světec and Štrbice.

Sons and daughters of the church

Vojtěch Preissig (1873–1944), painter and graphic artist

Web links

Commons : Světec - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.uir.cz/obec/567841/Svetec

[2] Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

[3] ttp://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec

[4] ttp://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec

[5] ttp://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec