Chodská Lhota

Chodská Lhota ( German Melhut ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. Lies 14 kilometers southeast of Domažlice and belongs to the Okres Domažlice to.

Geography

Chodská Lhota is located in the Neugedeiner furrow between the Upper Palatinate and the Bohemian Forest. The village lies between the hills Dobra hora (640 m), Chlumek ( 643 m) and Javorovce ( 598 m) in the headwaters of a small creek flowing to Andělice. North of the village pass the state road 22 and the railway between Klatovy and Domažlice where is the station Chodská Lhota halfway to Hluboká.

Neighboring towns are Hluboká and Dobříkov in the north, Nové Chalupy, Loučim in the northeast, Libkov in the east, in the southeast Pocinovice, Výrov in the south, Na Šteflích, Chalupy and Hyršov the southwest, Hájek in the west and Vítovky in the northwest.

History

Chodská Lhota is one of the eleven oldest Chodendörfer and was first mentioned as Lhotka Villa Chodonum records in Chodenprivileg John of Luxembourg on 16 March 1325. The place that was recorded later with the German name Mehlhut, belonged, like all free Chod villages, to the castle rule Riesenberg. At the beginning of the 17th century Wilhelm Wolf Laminger received from Albenreuth the Chodendörfer as a pledge, and at the end of the century the Laminger possession were hereditary. In the Berni rula the village is listed as part of the rule Újezd ​​Svatého Kříže. The inhabitants of the village participated in the 1693 suppressed rebellion under the leadership of Jan Sladky Kozina against Wolf Maximilian Laminger, called " Lomikar ". In the 18th century the village under the counts of the stadium belonged to unite rule Kout na Šumavě / Trhanov. Gepfarrt was Melhut after Loučim where the kids were up to the opening of its first own village school in 1827 and enrolled in school. 1899, the volunteer fire department Chodská Lhota was founded. In 1927, the port of the village to the electricity grid.

Community structure

For the community Chodská Lhota no districts are reported. To Chodská Lhota include the settlements Na Šteflích and Výrov.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. Wenceslas in Chodská Lhota, every year is the St. Wenceslas pilgrimage place
• Pentagonal alcove chapel of the Holy Trinity on the way between Chodská Lhota and Výrov, built in 1911