Vítkov u Tachova
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Plzeňský kraj | ||||
| District : | Tachov | ||||
| Municipality : | Tachov | ||||
| Area : | 572.1866 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 49 ' N , 12 ° 39' E | ||||
| Residents : | 94 (March 1, 2001) | ||||
| Postal code : | 347 01 | ||||
| License plate : | P | ||||
Vítkov (German Wittingreith ) is a district of Tachov in the Czech Republic . It is located two kilometers northeast of Tachov on the district road to Planá . The village itself is hidden in a hollow, the view of the Damnov and Vysoké Sedliště ridge only opens up to the east.
Place name
"Gereut" / "Reut" / "Gerodet" means "land made arable". Witigo or Vitek stand for a name, so that the name means "clearing of Witigo".
- 1437 Abhart von Wyttigenreuth
- 1442 czwen hoff to Bittigenrewt
- 1443 Oswald Potzinger zu Wittingreut
- 1465 Osw. Pozinger sat at Witigenreut; 1542 Wittingreyt
- 1587 ves Bittingreit .. ves Bytnkreyth
- 1606 ve vsi fečené Wityngreytu
- 1636 Wittingreith
The original form Wyttigenreut (= Vitkova kopanina) changed due to the shift from gn> ng to Wittingreut.
history
In the Wosant village law of 1437, Abhart von Wyttingreuth also appeared among the witnesses of the document and thus this is the first documentary mention. The next documentary mentions are from December 5, 1442 as a Wenzel Toprer, citizen of Tachau, u. a. had given two farms in Bittingenrewt to his brother-in-law Siegmund Frankengründer. The land register of 1555 brings the form Wittingreidt , that of 1587 Bittingreit and Bytnkryth . Wittingreith means Witigo's regret and was without a doubt founded by Germans. Oral records from ancestors and settlement researchers from Wittingreith from the middle of the 20th century say that the first settlement should go back to the 12th century . The first settlers are said to have been Main Franconia . They were severely decimated by epidemics and are said to have brought more settlers from their homeland in the 13th century.
After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Empire and until 1945 belonged to the Tachau district .
After the local population was expelled after World War II , the place was settled by Czechs. Several houses in the village were destroyed after the end of the war, and the Chapel of the Discovery of the Holy Cross was demolished in 1978. In 2003 there was only one German in town who was no longer deported to Germany and married a Czech. She lives in her old house.
Population numbers
In 1654 Wittingreith had 13 farmers, 2 Chalupners and two parched properties. In 1788 there were 31 house numbers, in 1838 41 house numbers. In 1930 and 1936 the last house numbers 53 and 54 were built. There were 240 inhabitants in 1930 and 208 in 1939, all of them German and Roman Catholic at that time . In 1991 the place had 45 inhabitants. In 2001 the village consisted of 35 houses in which 94 people lived.
Personalities
- Johann Franz Anton Freiherr von Zedtwitz (1713–1784), kk general field master
literature
- Wittingreith, local history by Josef Weis, August 1983
- Friedrich Lehmann: The change of place names in the formerly German populated areas of Czechoslovakia. Shown on over 300 examples of selected former rural districts (= Scripta Slavica. Vol. 6). Biblion-Verlag, Marburg / Lahn 1999, ISBN 3-932331-16-8 , p. 118, ( Also : Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1999).
Web links
- former Chapel of the Finding of the Holy Cross on www.znicenekostely.cz (website in Czech)
- Short biography of the General Feldzeugmeister Johann Anton Franz Baron von Zedtwitz in: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (faithful reproduction at wikisource.org)