Poběžovice

Poběžovice ( German Ronsperg ) is a small town in West Bohemia Okres Domažlice with 1,658 inhabitants. It is situated in 435 m altitude at the Pivoňka in the foothills of the Upper Palatinate Forest.

History

The first mention of Poběžovice is related to Zdeněk Poběžovice of which is occupied in the years 1359-1373. 1424, it became the market town levied in 1502, to the city. During this time, the owner of Dobrohost Poběžovice also built the castle and a church and named the city in Ronsperk ( German Ronsperg ) to. From 1542-1621 the city belonged to the lords of Swan mountain ( Švamberk ), later the men of wit and desire in the 19th century the Counts of Thun and Hohenstein. From the mid-19th century Ronsperg seat of a district court was ( Judicial District Ronsperg ) in the district Bischofteinitz. By 1945 the castle was the seat of the kingdom Ronsperg Count Coudenhove -Kalergi. The 1945 predominantly German population was almost completely expelled.

Community structure

To Poběžovice the districts include Ohnišťovice ( Wonischen ) Sedlec ( sadl ) Sezemín ( Zeißermühl ) Šibanov ( Schiefernau ) Šitboř ( Schüttwa ) and Zámělíč (small Semlowitz ).

Religion

In Poběžovice was from the 17th century a Jewish community that maintained a yeshiva until 1859. Poběžovice was also the seat of the district rabbi for the Pilsener and Klatt Auer circle. Northwest of Poběžovice, north of the road 5 (6 ) A Poběžovice - Drahotín is located in the field, the old Jewish cemetery of Poběžovice to which a fortified entrance ist.Der been built with parking access to the cemetery is done on the left hand by an iron gate, not through the main gate ). From about 500, only about 50 graves have been preserved.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Moses Leib Bloch, Rabbi, Director of Landesrabbinerschule Budapest, born 1815 in Poběžovice
  • Richard Nicholas Coudenhove- Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European movement, lived here in his youth
  • Abraham Long Chur, Jewish businessman, born, died and was buried in Poběžovice
  • Guido Reimer, SS First Lieutenant in the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Mauthausen
  • Emil Stark stone, pharmacologist, murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942

Pictures

Poběžovice Schlosstor (2013 )

Poběžovice sculpture in a niche of the castle wall (2013 )

Poběžovice Nepomuk statue between the rectory and church (2013 )

Poběžovice Alley (2013 )

Poběžovice marketplace (2013 )

Kraj Hectare Coudenhove-Kalergi Budapest University of Jewish Studies Emil Starkenstein Babylon (Domažlice District) Libkov (Domažlice District) Nemanice
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