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Visited:20. 6. 2021
History:The village of Spořice (German Sporitz) is located about 3 km southwest of Chomutov. The name of the village is derived from the personal name Spor meaning "small, sporty" and transferred to the village means "village of the Spor people". It evolved from a variant Sporicz (1281, 1469), through Sparitz (1497), Schporicz (1511), Sparitz (1563), Ssporitze (1571), Sparycz (1587), Sporžicz (1654) and Sporitz (1787). Rescue archaeological excavations during the construction of the D7 motorway uncovered an earlier Bronze Age settlement southeast of Sporitz. It also revealed a settlement from the Hallstatt and Latenian cultures, from which a skeletal grave with personal jewellery originated. We do not know exactly when this village was founded, but the village was founded by a Slavic settlement and is estimated to have been founded sometime in the 12th-13th centuries. The founders of the village were probably the vladyka Načerad or his son Bedřich. These vladyks resided in nearby Chomutov. The first written mention comes from 1281 from the records of property transfers of the Order of German Knights from the Chomutov commandery, to which the estate belonged. This village was probably donated to the Order in 1252 by the then vladyk Bedřich. It came into noble hands only after 1411, when King Václav IV confiscated all the property of the order and in 1418 the village was seized by the commander of the royal troops, Mikuláš Chudý of Lobkovice. In the 15th century, the possession was successively changed by Jakoubek of Vřesovice, Jan Calta of Kamenná Hora. The last of them, Benes of Veitmile, paid off the claims of the German knights and thus gained possession of the manor. His descendants owned Spořice until 1560, when Ferdinand II bought it from them. Tyrol and from him in 1571 Bohuslav of Lobkowitz. In 1591, Jiří Popel of Lobkovice donated the Spořice farmstead to the Jesuit college in Chomutov. After he was condemned to lose his property in 1594, the administration of the large estate passed to the royal chamber, which divided it into parts and sold them. Spořice was bought in 1606 by Adam Hrzán of Harasov. The inventory of the property in Spořice at that time listed 63 serfs, 15 covers and the branch church, which he valued at 23,706 kopeks and 36 groschen and 3 denarii. The serfs paid 44 kopecks and 41 groschen and 3 denarii in taxes annually, had to work 158 days of labour and 6 days of labour in the fields, and had to give 278 hundredweight of rye, 284 hundredweight of oats, 668 eggs and 130 hens in kind. However, the farmstead continued to belong to the Jesuits until 1660, when Jan Hrzán of Harasov bought it, making Spořice part of the Červenohrádecký manor. The 1654 tax roll lists 13 farmsteads in the village (three of which were abandoned), as well as 38 cottages (11 of which were abandoned). Two cottagers lived on the village property. In 1683, a plague epidemic occurred in Spořice, which was said to have been survived by only six inhabitants. A memorial column commemorating the event is kept in the lapidarium of the Regional Museum in Chomutov. From the middle of the 17th century there was a school in the village. In 1701, Prince Jáchym of Liechtenstein became the owner of the estate and bought it from Zikmund Hrzán Harasov. However, this man died in 1724, and the estate passed to the husband of his younger daughter Dominka, Jindřich of Auersperk. Diseases and the passage of troops caused damage in the 19th century as well. First it was the troops from Westphalia during the Napoleonic Wars in 1809 and in 1813 also the Austrian, Russian and Prussian troops. In 1862 a cholera epidemic spread and during the Austro-Prussian War troops were quartered here for a week in 1866. After the abolition of the patrimonial administration in the mid-19th century, the village became an independent municipality and has maintained its independence until the present day. Shortly before 1870, a coal deposit was discovered in the vicinity of Spořice. During the 1860s and 1870s, a brown coal mine, Aid of God, was operating near Spořice, founded by A. Gellert. In the cadastral area, a part of the Chomutov railway station was built in the second half of the 19th century and in 1917 a branch of Poldina smelter. Since 1919 a Czech school functioned here, later expanded with a kindergarten. The German school was located in the present school building from 1900. During the Second World War, a prisoner of war camp for French, English and Greek prisoners of war was set up in the three Sporice inns from 1941. In April 1945, 107 people were killed by bombing and 32 houses were destroyed and another 22 damaged. At the very end of the war, on 5 May 1945, concentration camp prisoners were shot in the barns of house no. 1 and buried in a mass grave near house no. 2. After the end of World War II, the original population was displaced and the population from the interior was resettled here. So while in 1930 there were still 2748 inhabitants, in 1950 there were 1839 inhabitants. In the post-war period there was a boom in industry, when a number of enterprises were established or expanded between Spořice and Chomutov: Ferona, Water Management Works and Ironworks - Tube Rolling Works. Originally an agricultural village, it turned into a workers' settlement. As a result of the construction of the bypass road, the village was divided into two parts and many historic buildings disappeared. The local church of St. Bartholomew fell into disrepair and even lost its roof. The village of Krbice, which was located behind the railway crossing, also belonged to this village, but this village, together with its Baroque church of All Saints with a Gothic core, was demolished in the course of coal mining. After 1990, however, the village began to develop successfully. The number of inhabitants increased significantly, a large number of houses were built, a pension for the elderly with a health centre was opened and the church was renovated. According to the 2011 census, there were 1,271 inhabitants.
Source:https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spo%C5%99ice
Source:https://www.obecsporice.cz/obec/historie/
Impressions:A picturesque village, located southwest of Chomutov, where two interesting sights have been preserved.
