Hořešovice

Hořešovice until 1924 Velké Hořešovice ( German United Horeschowitz, also Horeschowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers northwest of Slany and belongs to Okres Kladno.

Geography

Hořešovice located at the foot of the hill country Džbán ( Krug Forest) in southern Dolnooharská tabule ( Untereger panel ). The village is located just before the confluence of the creek Zichovecký creek in the valley of the brook Zlonicky creek. To the northwest lie the Na Hvězdě (310 m) and the Žlaba (302 m ) and in the south west of the Na Drahách (348 m). Southwest extends the natural park Džbán. North of the village runs the country road I / 7, from which branches off the II/237 about Hořešovice to Nové Strašecí.

Neighboring towns are Úherce, Kokovice and Telce in the north, Klobuky, Kobylníky, Palecek, Stradonice Lisovice and Zlonice in the northeast, Třebíz in the east, Kutrovice, Kvílice and Plchov the southeast, Jindřichův Dul, Carda and Jedomělice in the south, Pozdeň, Lísky, Maly Bílichov and Bílichov in the southwest, and Zichovec Samotín in the west and Zerotin, Hořešovičky, Pacov and Pačovský Mlýn in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1227 in a tithe document of the monastery of St. George at Prague Castle. In the second half of the 13th century the village was the seat of Heřman of Hořešovice. His descendants held the property until the 14th century. In the second half of the 14th century consisted of Hořešovice two parties, they fell in the 16th century without form, and were dragged later. After the establishment of books is in Hořešovice since 1384 a parish church detectable. Later, the men of Kolowrat acquired the property and included it their rule storehouse of. On October 12, 1548 inherited the captain of the New Town of Prague, Ludwig Bezdružický Kolowrat, the rule storehouse with the castle, the farm, the brewery, the malt house and the town granary, the villages Milý, Srby, Lhota, Žehrovice, Třtice, honice, Třebichovice, Hořešovice, Lodenice and Kačice, the woods at Žehrovice, eleven ponds as well as the right to the income from the mortgaged villages Bdín and Pozdeň. After 1555 his two sons, Jan and Zdislav Abdon Bezdružický Kolowrat sold large parts of the over-indebted government storehouse, in the end only the town granary and a Edelhof in Třtice remained. The parish became extinct during the Thirty Years' War, her Sprengel came after a parish storehouse. At the time of the princes of Schwarzenberg Hořešovice was again part of the rule storehouse. In 1767 a Lokalie was established in Hořešovice. Subsequent owners were from 1782 John I of Schwarzenberg, from 1789, Joseph II of Schwarzenberg and in 1833 his eldest son and Fideikommisserbe Johann Adolf II of Schwarzenberg.

In 1843 there was the village south of Leipzig road, this large - Horeschowitz, commonly called Horeschowitz / Hořessowice, were from 40 houses of 271 inhabitants, of the 37 to the reign granary and three to rule Zlonitz. Under the patronage of the government granary, the local church stood on the St.. Apostles Peter and Paul, the Lokalistenhaus and the school. In the village there was also a magisterial Grange. The Horeschowitzer forest district, one of the four spots in the Kornhauser forests, comprised 106 yoke 467 square fathoms coniferous forest and was also managed by Srbečer gamekeeper. Wholesale Horeschowitz was vicarage for Zichowetz and small Horeschowitz. Until the mid- 19th century, large - Horeschowitz remained Fideikommissherrschaft grain house with Kaunowa submissive.

After the abolition of patrimonial Velké Hořešovice / wholesale Horeschowitz formed in 1850 a municipality in the district court district and snakes. At the end of the 19th century the Czech town name was changed to Velké Hořešovice. Today's local name Hořešovice was introduced in 1924. In 1932 Hořešovice had 396 inhabitants. 1960 Hořešovice was assigned to the Okres Kladno. In 1961, the incorporation of Bílichov, Hořešovičky and Zichovec, all three districts dissolved on November 24, 1990 go again, and formed their own communities. Hořešovice is a Hopfenbauort.

Community structure

For the community Hořešovice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Church of St. Peter and Paul, the 14th- century Gothic building was formerly redesigned 1717 Baroque.
• Wooden bell tower with a stone base, he was born in the 16th century. The bells were cast in 1502 and 1511.
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk on the village square, created in 1863