Údlice (german: Eidlitz) is a municipality and village in

Chomutov District Chomutov District ( cs, okres Chomutov) is one of seven districts (''okres'') located within the Ústí nad Labem Region in the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Chomutov. List of municipalities Bílence - Blatno - Boleboř - Březno ...

in the

Ústí nad Labem Region Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region ( cs, Ústecký kraj, , ), is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad La ...

of the

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. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

The village of Přečaply is an administrative part of Údlice.

Geography

Údlice is located in close proximity to the city of

Chomutov Chomutov (; german: Komotau) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. There are almost 80,000 inhabitants in the city's wider metropolitan area. The city centre is well preserved and is protec ...

, about southwest of

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (, , ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of its eponymous region and district. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway ju ...

. It lies in the

Most Basin The Most Basin (also known as North Bohemian Basin; cs, Mostecká pánev, german: Nordböhmisches Becken) is a tectonic depression and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is named after the city of Most. It forms the southwes ...

. The highest point is at above sea level. The Chomutovka River flows through the municipality.

History

The first written mention of Údlice is from 1295. From 1446 until the end of the 16th century, the village was owned by the

Lobkowicz family The House of Lobkowicz (''Lobkovicové'' in modern Czech, sg. ''z Lobkovic''; ''Lobkowitz'' in German) is a Czech noble family that dates back to the 14th century and is one of the oldest Bohemian noble families. The family also belong to the G ...

. Údlice was promoted to a town in 1539, but its lost the title during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battl ...

, when it was plundered by the

Swedish army The Swedish Army ( sv, svenska armén) is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces. History Svea Life Guards dates back to the year 1521, when the men of Dalarna chose 16 young able men as body guards for the insurgent nobleman Gusta ...

. From 1605 until the establishment of a separate municipality, Údlice was part of the

Červený Hrádek Červený Hrádek (german: Rothenburg) is a municipality and village in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants. Červený Hrádek lies approximately east of Jindřichův H ...

estate and shared its owners. From 1938 to 1945, Údlice was annexed by

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

and administered as part of

Reichsgau Sudetenland The Reichsgau Sudetenland was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It comprised the northern part of the ''Sudetenland'' territory, which was annexed from Czechoslovakia according to the 30 September 1938 Munich Agreement. ...

Demographics

Transport

There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipal territory, but the municipality is located close to the D7 motorway from

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

to Chomutov.

Sights

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is originally a Romanesque church from the first half of the 13th century. It was rebuilt in 1400, and then into its current early Baroque form in the 17th century. The Údlice Castle was built in the Baroque style in 1692–1695 on the site of a fortress from the 14th century. Today the building is used by a secondary school. The column with a statue of Saint Joseph in the middle of the square dates from 1716.

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