Trmice

Trmice ( German Türmitz ) is a small town in the Czech Republic. It is located at the western city limits of Ústí nad Labem at a flow loop of Bilina on the edge of the Bohemian Uplands. By Trmice the D highway runs 8

• 7.1 freeman
• 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town

History

The Reihendorf Türmitz was first documented in 1305. It goes back to a Slavic settlement that dates back to the 11th century. 1664 the site was transferred by Hans Hartwig Count Nostic market rights of Großtschochau and he was in the same year by Leopold I. the municipal law. This competition was not welcome in Usti nad Labem, however, had to be tolerated. Also interpellations, such as against from 1675 held Türmitzer fairs were in vain.

Its inhabitants were formerly arable citizens and craftsmen. In the 18th century emerged cloth weaving and the shoe industry was established.

After 1740 began at Karbitz the mining of lignite, this is 50 years later also promoted at Türmitz. In the 19th century saw an industrial boom in the city. In addition to coal, which had spread west and north of the city on the whole territory, a Teerraffinerie was built as a processing plant. The food industry considered in Türmitz catchment and there was a brewery and 1850 the sugar factory. Built in 1858 railway Trmice - Bílina of Usti - Teplitz Railway led through the city, with Karbitz and Usti Türmitz was connected by an electric tram. After 1900, took his time Türmitz the largest lignite power plant in northern Bohemia to operate on. 1910, the sugar factory was shut down in 1915 and this happened also with the brewery, after it had been bought by the Aussiger brewery.

During the German occupation Türmitz was incorporated in 1939 to Usti, this integration was retained after the war. After the Velvet Revolution, the inhabitants of Trmice opted for the separation of Ústí nad Labem and the beginning of 1994 was Trmice as a separate parish. In 1996 the place back the municipal law. Since the end of 2006, the city of Ústí guide efforts to re- merger with Trmice. While Ústí hoped for an increase in the population to more than 100,000, an increase of annual state funding by about 4.5 million euros from the merger, Trmice feared disadvantages in urban investment. The city is a fusion therefore hostile to.

Economy and infrastructure

Economically Trmice is an industrial city today. In addition to a thermal power plant based on lignite here are among other production companies KSPG companies, Black & Decker, Renault and Jotun Powder Coating. In Trmice also one of the eleven Globus hypermarkets located in the Czech Republic.

D8 motorway

Through the urban area the highway Dresden- Prague ( D8) runs, is tied to the Trmice a junction. This section was built before 1989 and joined the space originally only Usti nad Labem with the neighboring region of Teplice. Without regard to urban planning and urban design considerations in terms of the habitat of urban residents this line was drawn through the village. Inspired by the design and construction of the A17 on the German side was built under the Czech population affected a public debate on a different route. By representatives of the region made ​​group tours to show the international public perceived as unacceptable situation in the village. The fear of the sudden increase in traffic through the integration of the old section of highway in the supra-regional route is obvious.

Community structure

Trmice consists of the districts Koštov ( costs), Trmice ( Türmitz ) and Újezd ​​( Augiesel ). Basic settlement units are Koštov, Svahy, Trmice, Trmice - Edisonova, Tyršova and Újezd ​​.

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Koštov and Trmice.

Twinning

• Königstein ( Saxon Switzerland ), Germany

Population Development

Castle Trmice

The castle was built in the years 1856-1863 according to the plans of the Viennese architect Heinrich von Ferstel in the Tudor style and was the seat of the Counts of Nostic. In 1919 it came into the possession of the manufacturer's family Wolfrum, the later the city Trmice the establishment of a museum of the city donated it Usti. After 1945, the estate fell so much that the museum was closed in 1964. In connection with plans for the construction of the motorway Prague - Dresden was even thinking about a demolition. After the 1994 refurbishment, the castle with its 50 rooms is now used as a cultural center of the city Trmice. In addition to exhibition spaces (among mining history and model railways ) and banquet halls the city's library is housed in it.

Personalities

Freeman

• Karel Otčenášek (1920-2011), bishop of Hradec Kralove, worked 1965-1989 as a Catholic priest exiled in Trmice

Sons and daughters of the town

• Albert of Nostic Rieneck (1807-1871), politician and colonel District Marshal of Bohemia.