Chotěšov (Plzeň-South District)
Chotěšov ( German Chotieschau ) is a municipality with 2624 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north-east of Stod at the Radbuza and belongs to Okres Plzeň -jih. The land area is 2681 ha
Geography
Chotěšov is located 358 m above sea level. M. left of Radbuza in their river level. Through the village leads the state road 26 between Pilsen and Stankov and the railway line from Pilsen to Domažlice. In the south side of the river, the 487 m high rises Křížový vrch.
Neighboring towns are Hoříkovice, Týnec and Zbůch in the north, Vodní Újezd in the east, Bayerův Dul and VSTi's in the southeast, Losina, Mantova and Pančava in the south and in the southwest Stod
History
The first mention of Chotěšov dates from the year 1115. In 1202 was made by the Gaugrafen Hroznata Ovenec of the founding of the Prämonstratenserinnenklosters Chotěšov that made rapidly grow the village and national significance procured.
On January 18, 1421 from place that was in the monastic possessions and destroyed the monastery by the Hussites were. The monastery was only partially restored and until 1756 was under Jacob Auguston a new baroque complex. After the dissolution of the monastery during the Josephine reforms Chotěšov fell on March 22, 1782 to the religious fund. 1822 acquired Prince Charles Alexander of Thurn and Taxis, the basic rule Chotěšov for 1,080,000 guilders.
With the replacement of the landlords and the serfdom in Bohemia Chotěšov in 1850 an independent village. The construction of the railway from Pilsen to Furth im Wald took the place in 1861 an economic boom and in the same year began the mining of coal. 1878 rented the Salesian Sisters of the abandoned monastery. In 1925 in the course of the land reform, the confiscation of the property of the Princely House of Thurn und Taxis. 1937 acquired the nuns convent building and garden from the house of Thurn and Taxis at a nominal price. The largest of the mines was the Masaryk mine ( Masarykův dul ) at Týnec, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the years 1938 to 1945 as Hermann Goering shaft continued their pits but were in the corridors of Zwug. In 1939, the school in the monastery was closed and set up a retirement home for the Sisters.
After the Second World War, the Germans were forced to leave the village in Chotěšov during the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia. They came as displaced persons mostly to Bavaria. The old people's home in the monastery was closed in 1950, when the Czechoslovak army moved into the building. 1973 gave the army to the object; the damage from the 23- year military use as a barracks amounted to CZK 10 million.
In 1991, the church of the monastery. A portion of the investments they had already acquired in 1937, the Order was returned and handed him the bishopric of Pilsen. From the monastery area with an area of 68 thousand sqm, the municipality has a share of about 37 thousand square meters. For the preservation of plants is a civil association founded and in the monastery was a small museum.
On the western edge of a sports airfield for microlight aircraft is operated. From former facilities of the coal industry, which has been shut down since the 1970s, the industrial area METALKA arose. The largest employers are the cable manufacturer MD Elmont sro and the elements of the German drive manufacturer GERWAH sro production company
Community structure
The municipality includes the districts Chotěšov Hoříkovice ( Horikowitz ) Losina ( Lossin ) Mantov ( Mantau ) and Týnec ( Teinitzl ) and the hamlet Pančava and the industrial area METALKA.
Attractions
- Chotěšov monastery with museum
- Parish Church of the Nativity of Mary, built in 1366
- Marian column from 1687
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk from 1700
- Křížový vrch with lookout tower and former church