Měcholupy (Plzeň-South District)

Mecholupy ( German Miecholup ) is a municipality with 192 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers northwest of the town of Nepomuk and belongs to Okres Plzeň -jih. The land area is 1291 ha

Geography

The village is located 505 m above sea level in the headwaters of a left tributary of the Úslava. Through the village the road 49/Staatsstraße Europe leads 20 from Pilsen to Nepomuk. Northeast of Mecholupy the Buková hora rises (650 m).

Neighboring towns are Dubeč and the Monastery and in the southeast, and Prádlo Novotníky in the south, and Chvostule Kokorov the southwest, Jarov in the west and Čabuzí and Zhur in the northwest.

Mecholupy is because of the panoramas over the Úslavatal to Castle Green Mountain is a popular site for photographic recordings.

History

The first written mention of Mecholupy took place in 1558. The place is, however, much older. The village probably belonged to the possessions of the monastery Pomuk and came to its destruction in 1420, along with most of the villages around the reign Grünberg.

After the replacement of patrimonial Mecholupy was an independent municipality in 1850.

Community structure

For Mecholupy no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Built chapel of St. Cyril and Methodius, with bell tower in the town square, 1905
• Memorial to an American pilot, at the crash site in 1944, east of the village in the forest house Dubeč