Velečín

Velečín
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Plzeňský kraj
District :	Plzeň-sever
Area :	525.3754 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 4 '  N , 13 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '28 "  N , 13 ° 24' 5"  E
Height:	438  m nm
Residents :	64 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	331 65
License plate :	S.
traffic
Street:	Žihle - Blatno
Railway connection:	Pilsen – Duchcov
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Lenka Valešová (as of 2013)
Address:	Velečín 17 331 65 Velečín
Municipality number:	578924
Website :	www.velecin.cz

Velečín church tower

Velečín (German Weletschin ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located six kilometers southwest of Jesenice and belongs to the Okres Plzeň-sever .

geography

Velečín is located on the right side of the Podvínecký potok in the Žihelská brázda ( Scheleser furrow ) in the Rakonice hill country. The Jesenicko Nature Park extends to the east and the Horní Střela Nature Park to the west. Velečínský rybník is located north of Velečín. The Krtská hora (525 m) rises in the northeast, the Kačer (594 m) to the west and the Žebrák (620 m), Nad Luhy (594 m) and the Kanešův kopec (633 m) in the northwest. The Plzeň – Duchcov railway runs on the eastern edge of the village .

Neighboring towns are Blatno , Nouze and Stebno in the north, Krty and Jesenice in the Northeast, Rybárna, Drahouš , Tlestky and Ostrovec in the east, Otěvěky, Zdar and Podbořánky the southeast, Chvojkovský Mlyn, Vysoká Libyně , Bílov , Potvorov , Přehořov and Žihle in the south, Pohvizdy and Pastuchovice in the southwest, Sklárna, Dvorec, Luby and Balková in the west and Tis u Blatna in the northwest.

history

It is believed that Velečín, the origin of which is still clearly recognizable as a Slavic round , was founded in the 10th century. Velečín was first mentioned in writing in 1296, when the sons of Bohuslav von Šanov sold the estate to the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star . After that, Velečín belonged to the possessions of the Blatno Monastery . During the Hussite Wars , the monastery was extinguished and Velečín became subordinate to Rabenstein Castle. Its owners were Count Schlik in the middle of the 16th century . In 1578 the Kolowrat -Liebsteinsky Velečín acquired it and added it to the Petersburg estate . Nikolaus Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky sold Velečín to Georg Chotek in Žihle in 1600 . After the battle of the White Mountain , his goods were confiscated and in 1623 sold to Hermann Czernin von Chudenitz , who united them with the Petersburg estate. In 1639 Hermann Czernin set up the Great Czerninsche Familienfideikommiss , which consisted of the Bohemian dominions and estates Petersburg, Gießhübel , Neudek , Schönhof , Sedschitz , Miltschowes , Winař , Welchow , Kost and Kosmanos as well as the Silesian dominion Schmiedeberg . In 1644 he was made an imperial count. Because of the heavy loads, a peasant revolt broke out in the area in 1680. After its suppression on Mlýnský vrch near Blatno, the Velečín mayor was executed along with nine other rebels as the leader of the rebellion in Saaz . In the 18th century the village became entirely German-speaking. Ostrovec was renamed Johannesdorf in 1775. The imperial counts Czernin von und zu Chudenitz held the property without interruption. Among the landlords of Drahuschen were Johann Rudolf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz and from 1845 his son Eugen Karl Czernin von und zu Chudenitz .

In 1846 Welletschin / Welečin consisted of 26 houses with 173 German-speaking residents. There was an inn in the village. The parish was Scheles . Welletschin remained subservient to the Fideikommiss rule in Petersburg until the middle of the 19th century .

After the abolition of patrimonial formed wave Chin / Velečín 1850 with the hamlet Johannes village a municipality in the district Saaz and judicial district Jechnitz. In 1868 Welletschin was assigned to the Podersam district . The Pilsen-Saaz railway started operating in 1872, but the trains continued to pass the village for a long time without stopping. In 1885 a new school was built in Welletschin , for the construction of which Wenzel Tauber, who had previously contributed significantly to the construction of the church, provided 1200 guilders. The new school was initially a branch of the Pladen school, the children from Johannesdorf were retrained from Gerten to Weletschin in 1885 . At the beginning of 1887, the Weletschiner school became an independent village school. Several Czech families settled in the village from the end of the 19th century. In 1903, the Pastuchowitz railway station was set up in the open between Pastuchowitz and Weletschin. In 1924, the district of Johannesdorf, previously called Janov in Czech, was given the Czech name Ostrovec. 1930 lived in Weletschin with Johannesdorf 310 people. After the founding of a local branch of the Sudeten German Party , the relationship between Germans and Czechs in the community deteriorated from 1935 onwards. After the Munich Agreement , the community was added to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Podersam district until 1945 . In 1939 the community had 301 inhabitants. After the end of World War II, Velečín came back to Czechoslovakia and the German-speaking residents were expelled . The Okres Podbořany was abolished in 1960, since then Velečín has belonged to the Okres Plzeň-sever . In 1961 Pastuchovice was incorporated. On July 1, 1980 it was incorporated into Žihle. On November 24, 1990 Velečín and Ostrovec broke away from Žihle and formed the municipality of Velečín.

Community structure

The municipality Velečín consists of the districts Ostrovec ( Johannesdorf ) and Velečín ( Weletschin ).

Attractions

• Tower of the former Church of Our Lady in Velečín, the neo-Gothic church was built in 1868 and 1869 at the expense of the municipality and a donation from the married couple Wenzel and Rosalie Tauber. In the 1970s, the nave and the choir of the church were demolished and replaced by a meeting house, which is now the seat of the municipal administration.
• Niche chapel near the former church in Velečín, it was built in the 19th century
• Church of John the Baptist in Ostrovec, the originally Gothic building was later redesigned in Baroque style and is protected as a cultural monument. The heavily dilapidated structure has been repaired since 2006.
• Stele with a relief of a Jerusalem cross, at the level crossing on the road to Ostrovec

Web links

• History of Velečín

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/578924/Velecin
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 14 Saatzer Kreis, 1846, p. 283
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Podersam district (Czech: Podborany). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/578924/Obec-Velecin