Votice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Středočeský kraj | ||||
| District : | Benešov | ||||
| Area : | 3640 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 38 ' N , 14 ° 38' E | ||||
| Height: | 483 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 4,587 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 259 01 | ||||
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| Street: | Benešov - Tábor | ||||
| Railway connection: | Benešov - Tábor | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 21st | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jana Kocurová (as of 2008) | ||||
| Address: | Komenského náměstí 700 259 01 Votice |
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| Municipality number: | 530905 | ||||
| Website : | www.votice.cz | ||||
Votice ( German Wotitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 16 kilometers south of Benešov and belongs to the Okres Benešov .
geography
Votice is located in the north of the Středočeská pahorkatina on Konopišťský potok. East of the city rises the Červenská hora (664 m), in the southeast of the Větrov (675 m), in the southwest of the Obecník (594 m) and in the northwest of the Kopanina (591 m). State road 3 / E 65 runs on the eastern edge of the city . The railway from Benešov to Tábor passes in the west . Votice train station is located outside the city between Votice and Bezdrahov.
Neighboring towns are Veselka and Mladoušov in the north, Kochnov in the north-east, Budenín, Javor, Otradovice and Ohrada in the east, Lysá and Amerika in the south-east, Hostišov and Líštěnec in the south, Jestřebice in the south-west, Střelítov and Beztahov in the west and Srbice in the north-west.
history
Archaeological excavations carried out in 1970 on the foundation walls of the parish church of St. Wenceslas showed that the place was probably founded around 1150. Votice is said to have been the seat of a Vladiken Ota in the 12th century and was created by German settlers. The first written mention of Otice took place in 1359. The place was owned by the Vladiken family of Otice. In the course of the 14th century Otice developed into a small town. In the 16th century the brothers Burjan and Jan von Otice owned the town. In the middle of the 16th century the current name Votice was created . With Burjan, who last called himself von Votice , the family died out. In 1545, Christoph Skuhrovský from Skuhrov on Popovice and Louňovice acquired the Votice estate. Johann von Sternberg († 1578) followed in 1574 . After the death of Stefan Georg von Sternberg, his second wife Veronika von Weitmühl sold the goods in Votice, Smilkov and Chotětice to Johanna Herzan von Sulewicz on Vidim and made the Postelberg Castle their seat. Johanna Herzan sold Votice in 1604 to Eva Kaplirz de Sulewicz, the wife of Kaspar Cappleri de Sulewicz , who was executed in the Old Town Square in Prague in 1621. She sold Votice in 1622 to Sezima of Vrtba . After the first Jews settled in Votice in the 15th century, the Jewish village is documented for 1788. The synagogue was built in 1724. With Franz Ernst the Younger from Vrtba, the male line of Vrtba died out in 1807. The inheritance fell to Franz Joseph Wratislaw von Mitrowitz . The Votice estate was acquired by Georg Gustav Ritter von Schlesinger in 1878 and his heirs held it until 1915. On January 29, 1915, Votice was sold for 850,000 crowns to the well-known Prague meat producer Emanuel Maceška, who owned it after the loss of Galicia in the course of the War needed to supply the Prague population with meat.
After the abolition of patrimonial Votice formed a municipality in the Selchan district from 1848 . At that time the place consisted of 208 houses and had 1908 inhabitants. In 1850 Votice became the seat of a district administration. However, it was moved to Selchan in 1868. In the following time the place was called a city without ever having had city rights. Between 1867 and 1870 the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway was built , which led past Votice to the west. The Votice-město railway station was built there. A second train stop called Votice-Veselka was built in Veselka. It was renamed Olbramovice in 1937. The Jewish residents were deported to Theresienstadt or to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp during the Nazi era . This wiped out the former Jewish community of Votice. After the end of the Second World War, Votice was raised to a district town. In 1949 the synagogue was demolished. In 1961 Votice lost its status as a district seat again and became part of the Okres Benešov .
City structure
The town of Votice consists of the districts Beztahov ( Bestahow ), Bučovice ( Butschowitz ), Budenín ( Budenin ), Hory, Hostišov (Hostišov ( Hostischau ), Javor ( Jawor ), Kaliště ( Kalischt ), Košovice ( Koschowitz ), Lysá ( Lissa ), Martinice ( Martinitz ) Mladoušov ( Mladauschow ) Mysletice ( Mysletitz ) Nazdice ( Nasditz ) Nezdice ( Nestitz ) Otradovice ( Otradowitz ) Srbice ( Sirbitz ) Střelítov ( Strelitow ) Větrov ( Wietrow ), Votice ( Votice ) Vranov ( Wranau ) and Zdeboř ( Sdeborsch ) and the settlements Amerika, Buchov, Černý Les and Ohrada.
Attractions
- Parish Church of St. Wenceslas, the originally Gothic building from the 14th century was redesigned in Baroque style in 1731
- Chapel of St. Adalbert, built in 1680
- Historic entrance gate to the cemetery
- God's grave, in the Franciscan cemetery, built in 1685 by order of Countess Maria Franziska von Vrtba, later Countess von Heisenstein
- Jewish cemetery , laid out in 1538, the oldest gravestones date from 1716
- Town hall, built at the end of the 17th century
- Marian column on the market, erected around 1750 and extended by a statue of the Virgin Mary in 1877
- Martinice Castle
photos
The church
The Bučovice district
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ^ WEB information from the city of Votice , accessed April 2, 2010.