Vojkovice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Moravskoslezský kraj | ||||
| District : | Frýdek-Místek | ||||
| Area : | 486 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 41 ′ N , 18 ° 29 ′ E | ||||
| Height: | 315 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 703 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 739 51 | ||||
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| Street: | Dobrá - Třanovice | ||||
| Railway connection: | Frýdek-Místek - Český Těšín | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
| administration | |||||
| Mayor : | Hana Sobková (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Vojkovice 88 739 51 Dobrá |
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| Municipality number: | 552488 | ||||
| Website : | www.vojkovice.eu | ||||
Vojkovice (German Wojkowitz , also Woykowitz , Polish Wojkowice ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located nine kilometers east of Frýdek-Místek and belongs to the Okres Frýdek-Místek .
geography
Vojkovice is located on both sides of the Lučina in the Beskid foothills in Silesia . In the village of to enhance the inflow of leads dam Žermanice -scale supply channel Morávka-Žermanice which in Raškovice water from the Morávka passes into the Lučina in Vojkovice. Before the canal was built in 1959, the village was located at the confluence of the Holčina ( Praschiwka ) and Račok brooks, which now flow south of Vojkovice into the canal. The R 48 expressway and the railway from Frýdek-Místek to Český Těšín pass to the south . The Dobratice pod Prašivou train station is one and a half kilometers south. The Nošovice substation and the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech plant are located in the south-west . To the north lies the Žermanice dam .
Neighboring towns are Vidíkov and Dolní Domaslavice in the north, Dolní Tošanovice in the northeast, Lesní Dvůr and Šprochovice in the east, Dobratice in the southeast, Hranice, Bukovice and Vyšní Lhoty in the south, Nižní Lhoty , Nošovice and Dobrá , Nošovice and Dobrá in the southwest, Panske Novéry Frýdek in the west and Podlesí, Pazderna and Horní Domaslavice in the northwest.
history
The first written mention of Vojkovice dates from 1520, the village was probably laid out at the beginning of the 16th century. The first owner of the place was the Tluk family from Tošanovice, later Vojkovice became part of the Friedeck estate . The residents lived from agriculture and house weaving. The village benefited from its location, a trade route ran through the bottom of the three brooks. The residents offered the merchants who traveled through on the road between Teschen and Friedeck, for ample payment, their services in tackling the climbs in the valley. In 1846 the first village school opened, before the children were taught in Dobrá.
After the abolition of patrimonial Woykowitz formed a community in the Teschen district from 1850. In 1877 the school got its own school house. From 1908 the place belonged to the Friedek district. The Beskid herbal liqueur Vojkovická hořká became famous . The schnapps originally produced in the Glesinger distillery was produced in the Jokl distillery from 1926. After the German occupation, Wojkowitz initially belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and was then part of the German district of Teschen from 1940 to 1945 . After the end of the war Vojkovice came back to Czechoslovakia and was assigned to the Okres Mistek in 1948. In 1952 the schnapps production in Vojkovice was stopped.
After the dissolution of the Okres Mistek, the place came to the Okres Frýdek-Místek at the beginning of 1961. In 1980 Vojkovicee was incorporated as the district Dobrá 6-Vojkovice after Dobrá, in 1990 the community was restored.
Attractions
- Statue of St. Charles Borromeo
- Chapel of the Virgin Mary, consecrated in 1877
- Žermanice dam
- old oak at the Jokl-Hof
- Bell tower
