Siřejovice

Siřejovice ( German Schirschowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers south-east of Lovosice on the D8 motorway and belongs to Okres Litoměřice.

Geography

The village is located on the Dubina panel, a southern spur of the Bohemian Uplands above the river level of Eger. To the east of the 245 m high Humenský vrch (Hahn Berg), also Kohoutov or Humberk rises told, leads past the motorway route D8/Europastraße 55 before. The next exit Lovosice -východ lies a mile to the north. Immediately adjacent to the highway are located on a wooded knoll in front of the Humenský vrch the remains of Jagdschlössschens Windsor. By Siřejovice leads the state road 247 between Radovesice and Lovosice.

Neighboring towns are Lukavec in the northeast, Keblice in the east, Zadnà Ves, Vrbičany and Kacov the southeast, Úpohlavy the southwest, Želechovice in the west and Čížkovice and Sulejovice in the northwest.

History

Was first mentioned in 1227 Skirewici in a document of the monastery of St. George at Prague. Subsequent owners were the noble families Kaplirz and Vchynicko in the 14th century. In 1400 Ješkov sold by Vchynicko the village of Johann von Wartenberg, who was guilty of the purchase price. This created a long-running feud between the two houses. 1430 Johann Kaplirz de Sulewicz received the village of Emperor Sihismund as Pfandlehn. After the Battle of White Mountain, Adam Kaplirz de Sulewicz the Lehn was withdrawn and Siřejovice sold in 1623 to Wolf Illburg of Vřesovice. After the monastery of St. George was again owners of Siřejovice and a share acquired Sigismund Brozanský of Vřesovice. Since 1833, the existence of the windmill is east of the village occupied.

After the abolition of patrimonial Siřejovice 1848 an independent village. At the subsequent owners of the property belonged to, inter alia, Franz Preidl Edler von Brunn hatred and Emanuel Karsch. 1870 sold the miller Kunze the Dutch windmill on the brothers Tschinkel, who turned the mill into a neo-Gothic summer house, which was given the name Windsor. 1886, the chateau was sold and remained uninhabited even after several changes of ownership. During the First World War moved into the dilapidated ruins a tramp. Between 1929 and 1930, was still living a Tonwarenhersteller on Windsor and since the romantic and now a ruin derelict and overgrown building was visited by a number of painters and tourists.

In the course of motorway construction, the originally seasoned on the old road to Teplitz and Dresden Strakover chapel was converted vrch on the Humenský.

Local structure

For the community Siřejovice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• St. Bartholomew, the detectable since 1384 church was 1397-1635 parish church, is in her grave lay the Kostialer line of Kaplirz de Sulewicz
• Ruins of the hunting lodge Windsor, not accessible due to danger of collapse
• Humenský vrch with Strakover chapel of 1866, which commemorates a battle between Austrian and Prussian troops