Markvartice (Děčín District)

Markvartice ( German marker village) is a village in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers south-east of Kamenice in the north of the Bohemian Uplands.

Geography

The elongated Waldhufendorf is part of yourself nad Ploučnicí to Kerhartice together in ranks of Benešov chain of villages in the valley of the brook Bystrá ( Absbach ). To the north rises the Olešský vrch (Beck Mountain, 355 m), in the northeast of Ptáčník ( Vogelsberg, 353 m) and Strážný vrch (405 m ) east of the Veselka (Freudenberg, 460 m), in the southeast of Vysoký les ( 464 m) and Skalka (310 m), the southwest Dobrná ( Doberner mountain, 531 m) and in the west of the Svážný (416 m) and Jámy ( Parlosaberg, 452 m).

Neighboring towns are Lužná and Janská in the north, Víska pod Lesy in the northeast, Veselé, Veselíčko 1.díl and Kerhartice in the east, Karlovka and Malá Bukovina in the south, Horni Habartice the southwest, Brložec, Františkův Vrch and Huntířov in the west and Stara Oleška in the northwest.

History

The 1281 first mentioned place Marquardi villa was part of the rule Scharfstein and was divided in the 15th century between different landowners. Parts of the village were part of the celebrations Untermarkersdorf, the Rotenhof and the Lords of Luttitz to Freudenberg.

In Freudenberger share Obermarkersdorf the Favoritenhof emerged, also called computational Berghof and the Hirschhof. In the Berni rula the Favoritenhof were second portion and the Hirschhof called as a marker village as a marker village 4 share. The owners changed several times, in 1631 came marker village on the Thun and Hohenstein family. 1667, the goods and Lower Favoritenhof Rotenhof were pooled. A year later came the Hirschhof. The combined marker villages goods were raised to rule large village marker.

In 1833 the town had 1816 inhabitants. In the middle of the 19th century geologist Hanns Bruno Geinitz discovered a slate coal deposit, which was developed by the Karcha the Dresden - brown coals Club founded by him. The club built a Photogenfabrik 1860 the work went bankrupt.

After the abolition of patrimonial marker village was formed in 1850 from a village in the municipality in the district of Freudenberg Tetschen. 1869 markers village received rail connection through the Bohemian Northern Railway, at the lower end of the village was built on a Rotenhof station. 1888 markers village broke off and formed with forest Dörfel and Freudenheim 2 share their own political community. 1891, which consists of 63 houses Obermarkersdorf to Freudenberg was ceded. 1890 lived in marker village 1760 people and by 1939 it had 1266th Until 1945/46, the site was inhabited predominantly German. Between 1980 and 1990 Markvartice was incorporated to Kamenice.

Community structure

For the community Markvartice no districts are reported. In the hallways of the abandoned settlement Markvartive Veselíčko is 2.díl ( Freudenheim second component).

Attractions

• Church of St. Martin, built 1701-1703

Personalities

• Georg Gautsch, organist
• Anton Grams, philosopher
• Johann Wenzel Füger, sculptor
• Hans Füger, sculptor
• Franz Knothe (1849-1909), educator and researcher of the marker villages dialect
• Paul Gautsch francs Thurn, Austrian Minister of Education, comes from the old marker Strand Family Gautsch