Žitovlice

Žitovlice ( German Zittaulitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. Lies 14 kilometers northeast of Nymburk and belongs to fulltext your real estates.

Geography

Žitovlice is located in the valleys of the streams and creek Pojedský Kozacka on the Bohemian panel. On the northern outskirts of the pond is Žitovlický fishpond. To the west rises the Holoviska (247 m) in the southwest of Chotuc (253 m) and in the south of Kuncberk (214 m).

Neighboring towns are Doubravany and Košík in the north, and Rožďalovice Zámostí in the northeast, Podlužany in the east, Nové Zámky the southeast, Sadka, and Mutínsko Křinec in the south, Pojedy, Bošín and Sovenice the southwest, Mcely in the west and Seletice in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of Žitovlice took place in 1352. In 1371, the village was the seat of Vladiken Stepan and Zdenek from Žitovlice. Since that time the existence of a parish church is occupied. Two years later, the goods of January Verdek Žlunice and from 1404 included a turn of Zdeněk Žitovlice. Below possessed the Žitovlický of Slivno and Trček of Lipa the place. After the church fire of 1618 Albrecht Trček built a new wooden church. During the Thirty Years War, the parish and the parish was Žitovlice went out after Rožďalovice. 1757 plunged the church together. Aloysius Clam -Gallas, the owner of the domain Rožďalovice, belonged to the Žitovlice at that time, built a new Baroque church.

The inhabitants lived by agriculture. Since the 19th century a part worked in the sugar factory Rožďalovice. After the abolition of patrimonial Zittaulic formed with the district Pojed 1850 a municipality in the district Jičín. From 1898, formed Pojedy own community. In 1961 Žitovlice to fulltext your real estates, at the same time Pojedy was incorporated. In the 1980s Žitovlice became a resort of the inhabitants of Prague.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Žitovlice Pojedy ( Pojed ) and Žitovlice ( Zittaulitz ).

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St.. Wenzel, built in 1769-1772 in place of a wooden old building. In 1862 the church was repaired.
• Iron crucifix, on the road to Rožďalovice
• Village bell in Pojedy
• Castle ruins Kuncberg ( Kunstberg ), on the same hilltop. The castle was built after 1450 by Jan Křinecký Ronov as national fortification. Parts of the ruins were canceled in 1659 for the construction of the castle, made ​​in 1891, the demolition of much of the remaining masonry
• Nature Reserve Chotuc
• Church of St.. Trinity on the Chotuc; The first church on the Chotuc was built on the site of a pagan place of worship. The present building dates from 1357 and was remodeled in the 19th century baroque