Světec
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Basic data | ||||
State : | Czech Republic | |||
Region : | Ústecký kraj | |||
District : | Teplice | |||
Area : | 1234.2902 ha | |||
Geographic location : | 50 ° 34 ' N , 13 ° 49' 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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/567841/Svetec
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/567841/Obec-Svetec