Němčice (Prachatice District)

Němčice ( German Niemtschitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located six kilometers south-east of Netolice and belongs to Okres Prachatice.

Geography

Němčice is located north of Blanský on a ridge above the Budweiser pool. Southeast of the Na Středním rises (441 m) in the southwest of Na Klínu (451 m). To the north- east stretches a pond area, the largest of the local ponds is the Vlhavský fishpond. On Velky Karasín there is a nature reserve.

Neighboring towns are Hlavatce and Sedlec in the north, Plástovice, Vlhlavy, Malé Chrášťany and Pištín in the northeast, Sucha and Češnovice in the east, Tupesy and Dehtáře the southeast, Radošovice and Strýčice in the south, Sedlovice and Zvěřetice the southwest, Lusatia in the west and Hlodačky and Mahouš in the northwest.

History

The first mention of lying on the medieval trade route from Netolice Doudleby village was 1220. In 1273 King Otakar II confiscated Přemysl the Svatomír of Němčice associated rule Němčice with the villages Němčice, Vlhlavy, Chrášťany and Tupesy, of serious crimes, leaving it to the Hohenfurth monastery. King Wenceslas II gave Svatomírs son Ones by Němčice the rule on July 3rd, 1292 and compensated the Zisterziensterkloster back with another strip of land east of Netolice, the Strýčicer parish with the parish church in Strýčice, the villages Bory, Dobčice, Holašovice Lipanovice, Strýčice, Všemily and Záboří and forests at vysoká BETA and above Habří. Later, the rule Němčice was connected to Nettolitz.

The parish patronage exercised alternately from the reigns Nettolitz and Mrs. Mountain, the Falialkirche was supervised therefore mutually Nettolitzer of deans and the Pistiner pastor. After Adam Franz zu Schwarzenberg Karl had inherited after the extinction of the royal house of Eggenberg his aunt Marie Ernestine the Allodialherrschaft Nettolitz with the Good Barau, he combined this with Mrs. Berg. In 1723, he left the church Němčicer rise to the parish church and build the rectory. In 1835 Němčice / Niemtschitz consisted of 28 houses with 175 Czech-speaking inhabitants. Three of the houses were to rule Fraunberg submissive. In Němčice passed a parish church, the rectory and a school. Němčice was vicarage for Mahausch, Sedlowitz ( Sedlovice ) Swieretitz ( Zvěřetice ), Small Groschum (Malé Chrášťany ) Tuppes ( Tupesy ) Wihlaw ( Vlhlavy ) and Selz. Until the mid- 19th century, the village of Prince Schwarzenberg associated Allodialherrschaft Nettolitz remained submissive.

After the abolition of patrimonial Němčice formed in 1850 a part of the community Mahouš in the District Commission Prachatice / Prachatitz. In the year 1878, Němčice broke loose from Mahouš and formed its own community. The volunteer fire department was formed in 1909. According to the Munich Agreement and the resulting separation of the district Prachatitz Němčice remained in 1938 at the " Resttschechei " and was added to the District Pisek. Sedlovice was incorporated in 1948 and assigned to the municipality of the newly formed Okres Vodňany. After its cancellation in 1960 Němčice assigned to the Okres Prachatice and incorporated to Mahouš. In 1976, the formation of the greater community Němčice with the incorporations of Babice, Chvalovice and Mahouš. Babice Chvalovice and dissolved again in 1990 going Mahouš in 1992.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Němčice Němčice ( Niemtschitz ) and Sedlovice ( Sedlowitz ).

Attractions

• Parish Church of St. Nicholas, they originated in the 13th century as a Romanesque- Gothic building. In the years 1385-1390, 1515-1521 and 1742 extensions were made; the tower was added in 1764.
• Niche chapel of St.. Wenzel at road junction to Tupesy
• Chapel in Sedlovice
• Homesteads in the South Bohemian folk Baroque