Rokle

Rokle ( German Rachel ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers southeast of Kadan and belongs to Okres Chomutov.

Geography

Rokle is located north of Doupov mountains on the right side of Eger on Úhošťanský creek. To the east lies the substation Hradec, behind the dam Nechranice. To the northeast, across the river stretches from the complex of the lignite power plant Tušimice. To the northwest of Table Mountain rises UHOST (593 m). To the north runs the railway from Kadan after Kaštice where the station Hradec u Kadaně is Hradec.

Neighboring towns are Hradec in the northeast, and Hořenice Poláky to the southeast, and Vinaře Blov in the south, Krasny Dvoreček the southwest, Úhošťany in the west and Kadaňská Jeseň, Zelina and Kadan in the northwest.

History

On the Hradiště in Hradec was from 8th to 11th century a Slavic fortified settlement, which at the Egerfurt lost its significance with the founding of the settlement Kadan and was abandoned.

Rokle was first documented in 1368.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Rokle Hradec ( Burgstadtl ), Krasny Dvoreček (small Schönhof ), Nová Víska u Rokle ( Neudorfl ) Rokle (Rachel ), and Zelina ( Seelau ).

Attractions

• Romanesque Church of St. Lawrence in Zelina, built in the mid-13th century. In 1961, burnt the house of God was provided in the 1990s with a new roof.
• Castle Rokle
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
• Holy Trinity Column
• Niche chapel of the Virgin Mary
• Natural Monument Želinský meandr in the flow loop of Eger in Zeline
• Natural Monument Sluňáky