Varvažov (Telnice)
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Ústecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Ústí nad Labem | ||||
| Municipality : | Telnice | ||||
| Area : | 522.4312 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 43 ' N , 13 ° 58' E | ||||
| Residents : | 344 (March 1, 2001) | ||||
| Postal code : | 403 38 | ||||
| License plate : | U | ||||
Varvažov (German Arbesau ) is a district of the Czech community Telnice (German Tellnitz ) in Okres Ústí nad Labem in the Ústecký kraj region .
location
Varvažov is located at the foot of the eastern Ore Mountains not far from the Czech trunk road 13. In the village is the Arbesauer pond, which is fed by the Tellnitz or Grundbach.
history
The place emerged from Nieder- and Oberarbesau and was first mentioned in a document in 1521. It belonged to the Graupen rule until 1580, then to Kulm . At the intersection of the two roads, a post house was built with an extension, which later bore the name "Zur Post" as an inn. With the construction of the post road Teplitz - Peterswald from 1803, from which a connecting road to Aussig branched off, Arbesau gained increasing importance. Due to its location directly at an important intersection, important battles took place near Arbesau in the Wars of Liberation in 1813, which went down in history as the Battle of Kulm . The place was almost completely destroyed. From the middle of the 19th century Arbesau was a municipality in the judicial district of Karbitz or in the district of Außenig .
Before the Second World War, the place had 143 houses with 1043 inhabitants. At the beginning of the 20th century, the place was connected to the tram from Aussig to Tellnitz. In 1991 the place had 322 inhabitants. In 2001 the village consisted of 85 houses in which 344 people lived.
Attractions
In the vicinity of the former post house on the right side of the road there is a 10 m high pointed column with an inscription, the so-called Schinkel tabernacle of Kulm . It is the Prussian memorial to the battle of Kulm. This monument, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , was unveiled on September 8, 1817. It has the following epitaph :
“The fallen heroes gratefully honor the king and fatherland. You rest in peace. Kulm on August 30, 1813 "
Originally it was just a neo - Gothic cast iron pyramid with inscriptions and an iron cross on top. This cross was in 1813 as a war award from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated by Prussia . In 1857 the Schinkel pyramid was lifted onto a sandstone plinth in order to emphasize its equivalence with the Austrian monument opposite. The substructure was provided with the portrait of the Prussian king.
Across the street is the Austrian monument dedicated to the Austrian general Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mansfeld , who struck the French for the second time on September 17, 1813. The obelisk was erected in 1825 and inaugurated on September 17th of the same year. It is crowned by a double-headed eagle with a laurel wreath cast in the Neu-Joachimsthaler Hütte . The sculptor was Wenzel Prachner from Prague .