Pec (Domažlice District)
Pec ( German blast furnace ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located eight kilometers south-west of Domažlice and belongs to the Okres Domažlice to.
Geography
Pec is located at the foot of Čerchov ( Schwarzkopf ) in the southeast of the Upper Palatinate Forest ( Český les ) in a valley surrounded by forests of Černý Potok.
Neighboring towns are Chodov in the north, Trhanov and Pila to the northeast, Babylon in the west, Česká Kubice the southwest, Dolni Folmava in the south, southwest, and Capartice Zámeček in the northwest.
History
The first mention of Pec is from the year 1652, when the bailiff of the rule Chodenschloß, Melchior von Aschenbach, in the valley below the black head, a blast furnace and ironworks was built. In addition, administration building and created a settlement for the hut people who received the name of " Officina Ferea " or " blast furnace ". On the occasion of the last melting in the Lamingerhütte let the ironmonger Matěj WACHAL 1803 set up a cast-iron cross.
Had been recruited on the iron smelting, was born in 1809 in place of the old plants a glassworks that produced until 1860. Main occupation for the residents of the village formed in the 19th century, the timber industry and the tool and shoemaking. 1869 had blast furnace 545 inhabitants, in 1910 there were 626 at the beginning of the 20th century, the village became a popular summer resort. 1930 lived in blast furnace 460 people who mostly belonged to the German ethnic group. After the Munich Agreement blast furnace was added to the German Reich and first belonged to the district market Eisenstein and from 1940 to 1945 to the district forest Munich. After the end of World War II Pec came back to Czechoslovakia and the German inhabitants were expelled.
With the establishment of the Iron Curtain Čerchov was a closed military zone, thereby tourism came to a halt. Later Pec was incorporated into Chodov. In the 1970s, the closure of the village school was carried out. Since 1991, Pec is a separate municipality again.
Community structure
For the municipality of Pec no districts are reported.
Attractions
- Shot wooden chapel of St. Prokop, built in 1908
- Memorial cross for Matěj WACHAL and Lamingerhütte
- Log houses
- Čerchov with the short - tower
- Lumberjack Museum, at the Municipal Office
Personalities
- Jaroslav Špillar (1869-1917), the painter built in Pec his studio
- January František Hruska (1865-1937), writer and ethnographer, was born in Pec