Přísečnice
Former town
Old postcard from Přísečnice
Old postcard from Přísečnice
Přísečnice is located in Czech Republic
Přísečnice
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 50°27′55″N 13°7′55″E / 50.46528°N 13.13194°E / 50.46528; 13.13194
CountryCzech Republic
RegionÚstí nad Labem
DistrictChomutov

Přísečnice (German: Preßnitz) was a mining town in what is today the municipality of Kryštofovy Hamry in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It was located in the Ore Mountains.

Name

The town got its Czech name from the stream of the same name that flowed through it. The German name was created by distortion of the Czech name.[1]

Another possible origin of the town's name is the Czech hydronym breznica.[2]

History

The origins of the town are unclear. The surrounding area had been used by people in prehistory, but the oldest known archaeological evidence of medieval inhabitance in the area was a pyrotechnical object from the turn of the thirteenth century,[2] this was located about 1.5 kilometers southeast of the town.[3]: 377 

Přísečnice once sat on an important trade route from Saxony to Bohemia. The road to Bohemia spanned from Saxon Zwickau via Schlettau to Přísečnice, from where two branches continued into the Bohemian interior; the first spanned via Louchov to Kadaň and the second via Výsluní to Kralupy u Chomutova.[3]: 375–376  The first written mention of Přísečnice is from 1335, when John of Bohemia granted the inhabitants an exemption from customs.[4] It was disestablished in 1974 due to the construction of the Přísečnice Reservoir; though the region was already underpopulated due to the expulsion of the German population after World War II.[5][6]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18692,988—    
18803,487+16.7%
18903,433−1.5%
19004,080+18.8%
19103,668−10.1%
YearPop.±%
19212,632−28.2%
19302,606−1.0%
1950731−71.9%
1961660−9.7%
1970395−40.2%
Source: Censuses[7]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Profous, Antonín (1951). Místní jména v Čechách. Jejich vznik, původní význam a změny (in Czech). Vol. III. Prague: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd. p. 482.
  2. 1 2 Crkal, Jiří; Volf, Martin (2014). Smolnik, Regina (ed.). Počátky města Přísečnice (in Czech and German). Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen. p. 95. ISBN 978-3-943770-14-8.
  3. 1 2 Crkal, Jiří; Volf, Martin (2016). "Počátky a vývoj osídlení horního města Přísečnice" (PDF). Archaeologia historica (in Czech). 2 (41). doi:10.5817/AH2016-2-19. ISSN 0231-5823.
  4. ↑ Binterová, Zdena (14 April 2005). "Přísečnice (Pressnitz) také: Presnitz, Pressniz, Pressents, Přessnitz". Zaniklé obce a objekty (in Czech). Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vodní nádrž Přísečnice". Krušnohorci (in Czech). 7 November 2005. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Vodní nádrž Přísečnice". Atlas Česka. Altermedia. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Okres Chomutov" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21. pp. 7–8.
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