Chabařovice

Chabařovice ( German Karbitz ) is a town with 2,329 inhabitants ( 1 January 2004) in the Czech Republic. It is located in 175 m above sea level. M. seven kilometers northwest of the center of Ústí nad Labem on Ždírnický Potok ( Sernitz ) and belongs to the Okres Ústí nad Labem on.

History

The town at the foot of the Bohemian Osterzgebirges was first mentioned in 1352 as Kagrnitz and was at that time a parish village in the reign Giant Castle (Czech Rýzmburk ).

In 1426 was half way to the hill Türmitz Na Běhání the Battle of Usti between Hussites and German knights held in Andreas Prokop defeated the numerically much superior Crusaders and then rampaged to Usti.

At the end of the 15th century, the village name changed in Karbitz. Karbitz had since at least 1520 and municipal law also had the right to brew pause. The awarding of the right to keep a city arms and siegels was in 1549 by the Bohemian and Roman-German king Ferdinand I.. Residents of the town were mainly farming community. After the end of the Thirty Years' War Karbitz was in its heyday. 1697 destroyed a city fire large parts of Karbitz. During the Napoleonic Wars, the city suffered severe damage during the Battle of Kulm.

As 1740 began the mining of lignite, it changed the landscape and character of the city. 1774 was the first lignite union. The change of the degradation in carbon shafts towards the open pit operation with the result that the south of the city places were devastated and Chabařovice a mining camp was. In 1858 Karbitz was a station on the Usti - Teplitz Railway. 1882 occurred in Karbitz the first mass strike in Bohemia. With Usti Karbitz was connected by a tram. From the mid 19th century Karbitz seat of the District Court was Karbitz ( Judicial District Karbitz ) or part of the district Aussig.

The mine made ​​the laying of the railway line necessary to the west by Karbitz ran past earlier about Wicklitz and then runs to the east around the city. In 1997, the lignite mining was discontinued after completion of reclamation is from the rest hole, a 2.5 km long lake that will serve with an area of ​​240 hectares of recreational purposes.

In addition to an outdoor pool Chabařovice has a car -camping. Two kilometers east of the city runs the route of the D8 Prague -Dresden motorway. In the city of some medium-sized businesses are located.

Community structure

Due Chabařovice municipality consists of the villages Chabařovice ( Karbitz ) and Roudníky ( Raudnig ). Basic settlement units are Chabařovice, Roudníky, Vyklice ( Wiklitz ) and Zalužany ( Senseln ).

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Chabařovice, Roudníky, Vyklice and Zalužany u Vyklic.

Attractions

• Historic Town Hall, built in 1609
• Church of the Nativity of Mary from 1352
• Church of St. Wenceslas in Roudníky
• Chapel of St. John the Baptist, known as Johanneskirchel originated in 1765 southeast of the city at a hermitage
• Monument to the Battle of Usti nad Labem, which originally seasoned on the hill Na Běhaní monument is now on Johanneskirchel
• Monument to Andreas Prokop, on Johanneskirchel

Twinning

• Drebach, Saxony (under construction)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ehrenfried Patzel (* 1914), Czechoslovak national football team
• Emmy Loose (1914-1987), Austrian opera singer
• Theo Brown (1922-2006), Austrian painter and graphic artist