Lenešice

Lenešice ( German Leneschitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north-west of Louny and belongs to Okres Louny.

Geography

Lenešice located at the southwestern foot of the Bohemian Uplands. The village is located on the left side of the Hrádecký creek at its confluence with the Eger. To the north rises the Lenešický chlum ( Chlum, 297 m), in the northeast of Oblík (509 m) and the Cerveny vrch ( Red Mountain, 275 m ) south of the Mělce ( Malletzer mountain, 223 m) and in the northwest of Břvanský vrch ( Weber Chaner mountain, 302 m). Northwest of Lenešice the pond Lenešický is rybnik.

Neighboring towns are Poustka, Hradek and Raná in the north, Oblík, Chraberce and Nečichy in the northeast, Dobroměřice in the east, Louny in the southeast, Zeměchy in the south, Brezno the southwest, Seník, Postoloprty and Vrbka in the west and Výškov, Nový Dvůr and Břvany in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1226 as a possession of the monastery Doksany. 1262 the Church of St. Simon and Jude was built. Since 1324, the village belonged to the estates of the monastery Porta Apostolorum. In the 15th century, several ponds created. On June 10, 1535 Ferdinand I. Sebastian Krabitz gave to Weitmühl the villages Wischkowa, Brzwany and Leneschitz. 1592 acquired Johann Czernin and from Chudenitz the Good Lenešice. His successor, George Czernin and from Chudenitz had the castle built. Under John of Clary and Aldringens the castle was set in 1698 repaired. 1767 was rebuilt the castle. Under James Wimmer, who bought the estate in 1788, was an economic upturn. He promoted the fruit growing and cultivation of clover. Wimmer was also transform the southern part of the village green and the ponds dry up. In 1797, the cemetery at the church was lifted. In 1802 the Prince of Schwarzenberg bought the estate.

After the abolition of patrimonial Lenešice / Leneschitz formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Louny. The village was on the Czech- German language border. 1861 was the imperial road to Postelberg, they replaced the old road over Nový Dvůr. The two pheasant in the castle park belonged in the 19th century the largest in Bohemia. After the breeding of pheasants was no longer profitable, the plants have been reduced in the 1860s by half and 1887 completely dissolved. 1872 took the Prague - Duxer railway route Brüx - Chlumčany in operation, which was continued until the following year to Prague Moldau and 1885. 1893 the larger of the two ponds was filled in on the village square and then built a school. 1899 received the community a train station. The plans to build another railway from Chomutov via Postelberg, Lenešice and Leitmeritz by Bohemian Leipa were not realized. In 1904, the reclamation of the small village pond. The estate belonged to 1925 the princes of Schwarzenberg. In the years 1925 and 1938, the clearing of the pheasant was. The municipality appealed against unsuccessful protest because the former pheasant gardens served as a tourist destination. Instead, 25 ha of pasture land were reforested at the east of it Chlum. After the Munich Agreement Lenešice was the frontier town of the German Empire. In the 1960s, the large pond Lenešický rybnik was flooded again. Between 1981 and 1990 Břvany was incorporated. On 3 July 2008 slumped, a week before the start of repair work, the bell tower of the church is protected as a cultural monument of Simon and Jude together and ripped half the nave with it.

Community structure

For the community Lenešice no districts are reported. To Lenešice the monolayer Ve Třesku, Nový Dvůr, Poustka (scrap mill) and Seník include ( Heuschuppe ).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Augustin Schránil (1878-1953), composer of operettas
• January Miroslav Květ (1887-1961), musicologist
• Václav Kůrka (1912-1944), communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism

Attractions

• Church of Sts. Simon and Jude, built 1262nd Between 1800 and 1802, the church was rebuilt. On 3 July 2008 the church tower fell in on itself, destroying half the church
• Lenešice Castle, built in 1599 for George Czernin and from Chudenitz
• Column with statue of St.. Wenzel, built in 1849
• Niche chapel of St.. John of Nepomuk from the 18th century
• Rectory
• Historic two-storey Baroque memory, the pond
• Sugar factory, the 73 m high chimney is one of the highest octagonal chimneys of the country
• 160 -year-old white poplar Linda Na brodech who is standing at the sugar factory in a flow loop of Eger tree with a trunk circumference of 7.20 m, the largest of its kind in the Czech Republic and protected as a memorial tree.