Borkovice

Borkovice ( German Borkowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers north-west of Veseli nad Lužnicí in South Bohemia and belongs to Okres Tábor.

Geography

Borkovice is located on the right side of the creek Brod at its confluence with the Blatska stoka in land Soběslavská Blata in Trebon Basin. South-west rises the Panský Kopec (434 m). To the north stretch the marshes Borkovická blata and Kozohlůdky.

Neighboring towns are Borkovický Dvůr Svinky, Vlastiboř, Záluží, Mokrá and Vesce in the north, Čeraz, Soběslav and Dráchov in the northeast, Řípec and Žíšov in the east, Veseli nad Lužnicí the southeast, Horusice, Kundratice and Sviny in the south, Dolni Bukovsko, Horni Bukovsko and Sobětice in the southwest, and Hartmanice Mažice in the west and Klečaty and Komarov in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of Borkovice took place on 1 April 1354 as Ulrich IV of Neuhaus sold it along with Zálší, Mažice, Svinky, Vlastiboř and Sviny to the Rosenbergs. Ulrich II von Rosenberg gave in 1430 a part of the village to the Augustinian pin Wittingau. After the 1785 repeal of the pin carried acquired Johann of Schwarzenberg in 1787 the monastery and the monastery, which he joined his reign Wittingau. After 1817, the schoolhouse was built. The peat in the bogs began in the first half of the 19th century; it was crafted, the engraved peat was dried to Torfziegeln. In 1840 Borkowitz consisted of 52 houses with 317 inhabitants, of whom twelve houses the Good Zalschy submissive. In the village there was a school. To Borkowitz included a abstruse located hunters house ( Jitra ) and a meadow gamekeeper's house. Vicarage was Drachow. Until the mid- 19th century, the village always the Good Wittingau remained submissive.

After the abolition of patrimonial Borkovice / Borkowitz formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Trebon / Wittingau and the jurisdiction Veseli nad Lužnicí. After the establishment of a new school, a workhouse was established in 1897 in the old schoolhouse, today it is the seat of the commune office. During the German occupation plan between 1943 and 1945 prisoners of the labor education camp worked in the Torfstichen. After the abolition of Okres Trebon Borkovice in 1948 part of the Okres Soběslav. Since the middle of the 20th century peat was operated industrially, he was hired at the end of the 1970s due to depletion of peat. The Okres Soběslav 1961 was disbanded and assigned to the municipality the Okres Tábor. On July 1, 1980, the incorporation of Zálší, Mažice, Klečaty, Sviny and Kundratice. After referenda these villages solved for November 24, 1990 go back and form their own communities.

Community structure

For the community Borkovice no districts are reported. To Borkovice include the monolayer Borkovický Dvůr and Jitra.

Attractions

• Chapel, built in 1814
• Several farms in the South Bohemian peasant Baroque Blatastil
• Natural Monument Borkovická blata, north of the town, from the bastion Jitra is a nature trail in the peat bog
• Bastion Jitra, Alois Jirásek wrote here his novel Proti všem
• Nature reserve Kozohlůdky peat bog, north of Borkovice

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ladislav Kubeš (1924-1998), composer, arranger and musician