Miřejovice

Miřejovice ( German Mirschowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north-west of Litoměřice in rechtselbischen part of the Bohemian Uplands. The place has because of multiple landslides on an irregular development.

Geography

Miřejovice is located on a steep hillside south of the mountain chain of Plešivec, Kamýk, Hradiště. Southwest is the hill Bidnice and to the south the repository Richard and the army grounds of Litoměřice connects.

Neighboring towns are Hlinná in the north, Skalice in the northeast, Žitenice in the east, and Pokratice Litoměřice in the southeast, Malic, Knobložka and Michalovice in the southwest and Kamýk in the West.

History

The first mention of Miřejovice dates from the year 1322. Residents of the village lived by agriculture and forestry. Benefiting from the sunny hillside location above Leitmeritz it dominated the vineyards and orchards, with particular Miřejovice was a center of walnut cultivation.

Owner of the village were, inter alia, the Zajíc of rabbit castle, which was followed by the Lords of Kamýk, Cernin of Chudenic, the Margrave of Baden -Baden and the Black Berger. At the beginning of the 19th century Mirschowitz had about 200 inhabitants and up to the middle of the 20th century their numbers continued to grow.

After the Second World War, the village, and the original rural character changed was lost. It originated locally atypical family houses instead of the original farmhouses and the zoning of the place made ​​Miřejovice to a suburban settlement of Litoměřice. Historic chapels were abandoned and demolished to decay.