Proboštov

Proboštov ( German Probstau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north of the center of Teplice and belongs to Okres Teplice.

Geography

Proboštov is located on the northern outskirts of Teplice at the confluence of the creek and the RACI Přítkovský Potok brook in the Modlanský. The village lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains in the North Bohemian Basin. In the southeast part of the town is the large pond Proboštovský fishpond. Proboštov lies between the railway lines of Decin and Ústí nad Labem to Chomutov and has a railway station on the latter. The place is surrounded by heaps and pits in the lignite mining, the west is the former colliery Jaroslav.

Neighboring towns are Přítkov and Vrchoslav in the north, Krupka in the northeast, Nové Modlany in the east, in the southeast Sobědruhy, Trnovany and Teplice in the south, Novosedlice in the southwest, and Pozorka Bystřice in the west and Běhánky and Drahůnky in the northwest.

History

After 1156-1164 by Vladislav II and Judith of Thuringia, the Bohemian royal couple, saw the foundation of the Benedictine monastery Teplice 1350 the village was first mentioned in Probosstow. The supervision of the monastic possessions of the nunnery has held the provost of the Benedictine monastery Postoloprty, who acted in the priestly duties. Of these, the name of the town is derived.

During the Hussite wars the monastery and his estates went out got to secular owners. Vladislav II granted the monastic rule Teplice on December 31, 1512 to Jan hereditary and Bernard von Waldstein. The dwelling place of the German population occurred at this time about the Protestant denomination. During the Thirty Years' War, the Swedes and the Imperialists invaded Probosstow and devastated the place. From the mid-17th century Probstau only had German inhabitants and was by 1700 from 11 farms. Residents living from livestock and operated next to a little orchard and vineyard.

Among the Count Clary Aldringens be changed the character of the village. The large pheasantry the reign Teplitz and Probsteier pond were remodeled in the 18th century to an English landscape garden, which was greatly sought around 1800 by the Teplitzer bathers.

After the abolition of patrimonial Probstau became an independent municipality in the district Toeplitz in 1850. 1858 took built by the Usti - Teplitz Railway Railway from Teplitz to Usti that drove through the parks, to operate on. 1860 opened the brown coal mine Richard, more were the pits Britannia I and II in the course of industrialization, the porcelain and ceramics factory Urbach, the tannery millstone and metal goods Manufacturer favorite works were created. Through the acquisition of mining and factory workers, a Czech minority formed in Probstau, especially from Trnovany attracted many Czechs. 1870 Probstau was incorporated along with Jews and village Wistritz after Weißkirchlitz. In 1884 was built on the site of the landscape park, a railway station. Probstau was extended to the south, between the station and the original village created on the park grounds houses for the workers. In the 1880s, the idea of ​​social democracy found among the workers dissemination.

After the renovation of the chapel fairs were held by the parish priest of Weißkirchlitz from 1881 in Probstau quarterly. At the beginning of the 20th century Probstau had grown into an industrial village. In 1902, the village broke again from Weißkirchlitz and formed its own community. After the proclamation of Czechoslovakia on October 28, 1918 was due to the embellishment of the village to frictions between Czechs and Germans. The council dominated the Czech and German Social Democrats, who made ​​up about equally strong factions. 1930, Probstau 3,519 inhabitants. After the Munich Agreement in 1938 was the annexation to the German Reich and parts of the Czech population were driven inland. 1939 3,098 people lived in the municipality in the district of Teplice. After the Second World War, the German population was expelled and Czechs settled until 1946. In 1948, the annexation to Teplice. In 1954 the plans were for " Great Teplice " abandoned and the place regained its independence. In 1960, a district Přítkov to Proboštov.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Proboštov Přítkov ( Jewish village) and Proboštov ( Probstau ). To Proboštov also includes the settlement Dul Jaroslav. The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Proboštov u Teplic and Přítkov.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua, the former Baroque building was rebuilt in 1881 in the Romanesque Revival style.

Sons and daughters of the town

• František Havelka J. (1887-1947), Painter and lithographer