Srbice (Teplice District)

Srbice ( German Serbitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers north-east of the center of Teplice and belongs to Okres Teplice.

Geography

Srbice is located on the northeastern outskirts of Teplice left side of the creek Modlanský. The village lies at the foot of the Ore Mountains in the North Bohemian Basin. The place is surrounded by several pits in the lignite mining, including the pond Kateřina the east and the pond Modlany at Staré Srbice in the southeast. South-west rises the Doubravská hora ( Schlossberg, 393 m).

Neighboring towns are Krupka and Nové Modlany in the north, and Soběchleby Chabařovice in the northeast, Modlany the southeast, Drahkov in the south, southwest, and Sobědruhy Trnovany in the northwest.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1403 as Rzezywicze documented. During the German occupation was transformed to the 18th century, the name of the place in Serbitz / Srbice. The Czech name forms Řeřevice or Řeřivice were hardly used.

After the abolition of patrimonial Serbitz became an independent municipality in the district Toeplitz in 1850. 1878 had Serbitz 426 inhabitants, of whom 420 were German and Czechs 6. The population was almost exclusively Catholic, the parish was in Modlany. To Serbitz belonged until 1890 the districts Suchey / Suché, Drakowa / Drahkov, Kwitkau / Kvítkov, Weschen / Věšťany and Schichlitz / Žichlice, which then loslösten themselves and, banded together until Weschen which formed a separate municipality to municipality Suchey. Life in the village changed the outcome of the 19th century much. From the rural village an industrial township began. In 1898 the mining entrepreneur Wolf Perutz on the entire site Serbitz and began the underground mining of brown coal. In Serbitz the mines Austria II, Prokop, Bohemia, Raven and Emanuel, together employing 600 miners in the first half of the 20th century emerged. Many of the miners were Czechs, so that a change occurred in the population structure. Northwest of the old Serbitz the settlement New Serbitz arose. 1921 the community had 512 inhabitants, of whom 302 were German and 210 Czechs. The council dominated at that time the two social democratic parties. 1930, Serbitz 735 inhabitants. After the Munich Agreement in 1938 was the annexation to the German Reich and parts of the Czech population were driven inland. 1939 lived 692 people in the community in the district of Teplice. After the Second World War, the German population was expelled in 1946 and settled Czechs. With the cessation of mining Srbice received in the 1950s back its agricultural character.

Community structure

For the community Srbice no districts are reported. Srbice consists of the local documents Stare Srbice (Alt Serbitz ) and Nové Srbice ( New Serbitz ), which are about 1.5 km apart, together. Basic settlement units are Srbice and Stare Srbice.

Attractions

  • Chapel in Nové Srbice

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ruth Mayen Castle (1907-1993), Austrian journalist
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