Otovice (Náchod District)

Otovice ( German Ottendorf ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers southeast of Broumov on the border with Poland, is the Okres Nachod.

Geography

The Waldhufendorf extends over four kilometers in the broad valley on both sides of the river stones. To the north rises the Černý vrch ( Black Mountain, 437 m) and to the east of the Otovický vrch (424 m), straddling the border. Already on Polish territory is the Przepiórka (490 m) in the southeast. Otovice was the terminus of the railway line from Meziměstí and possessed with Otovice and the terminus Otovice zastávka two railway stations. On the stretch between Broumov and Otovice the traffic, however, was discontinued in 2005. After Tłumaczów in Poland, there is a road link. East of Otovice is a sports airfield.

Neighboring towns are Rožmitál in the north, Šonov, Vápenka and Tłumaczówek in the northeast, Tłumaczów in the east, in the southeast Gajów, Božanov and Martínkovice in the south, the west and Křinice Broumov colony 5.května and Broumov Nove Mesto in the northwest.

History

In the wake of the reclamation of the area by the monastery Břevnov the town was built around 1253 by German settlers along the stones. Already existed on the hill Hoprich over the mouth of the creek Martínkovský in the stones a Slavonic settlement.

The first written mention of the name of its locator Otto village took place in 1300. Ottendorf was one of the pen Broumov associated villages.

1724, the church, which was a branch from March village was established. 1789 took the village school to teach. After the abolition of patrimonial Ottendorf formed with the hamlet of leather pants from 1850 onwards a municipality in the district of Braunau court and later in the district of Braunau. 1885 1,155 people lived in the community. With the extension of the railway between Halbstadt and Braunau to the Silesian Mittelsteine ​​Ottendorf received a railroad connection on 5 April 1889. The residents of Ottendorf living from agriculture. In leather pants, a limestone quarry was operated. Otherwise, there was still a brick. After the Munich Agreement in 1938 Ottendorf, which was inhabited mainly German, was added to the German Reich and belonged until 1945 to the district of Braunau. In the years 1945 and 1946, the expulsion of the German inhabitants took place. In 1945 the rail link in Polish Tłumaczów ( Tuntschendorf ) was adjusted so that the trains ended in Otovice zastávka. As part of the resolution of the Okres Broumov Otovice 1961 was assigned to the Okres Náchod. On June 18, 1979, a flood of stones flooded the village. On 7 July 1997, the village was again affected by a severe flood. České Dráhy presented on December 11, 2005, a train service on the stretch between Broumov and Otovice.

Community structure

For the community Otovice no districts are reported. To Otovice the settlement Vápenka part ( leather pants ).

Attractions

• St. Barbara Church, built in 1724-1725, designed by Kilian Ignaz Dietzenhofer instead of a Protestant wooden church
• Former school house, pseudo- baroque building from 1872-1873, today the municipal office
• Baroque mill on the stones, built in 1772

Sons and daughters of the town

• Dominik Prokop (1890-1970), abbot of the pins Břevnov and Broumov and pipe
• Hugo Scholz (1896-1987), poet