Úpice (german: Eipel) is a town in
Trutnov District
Trutnov District ( cs, okres Trutnov is a district (''okres'') within Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is the town of Trutnov.
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in the
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Czech Republic
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. It has about 5,600 inhabitants. It lies on the
Úpa
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river, which gave the town its name.
Administrative parts
The village of Radeč is an administrative part of Úpice.
History
It is proven that Úpice existed already in the 11th century, however the first written mention is from 1358. It was a small town until the second half of the 19th century, when the textile and machinery industries developed.
Until 1918, the ''Eipel – Úpice'' town was a part of the
Austrian monarchy
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(Austria side after the
compromise of 1867
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), in the ''Trautenau – Trutnov'' District, one of the 94 ''Bezirkshauptmannschaften'' in
Bohemia
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.
In 1975, the village of Radeč was joined to Úpice.
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Economy
The largest employer based in the town is KASPER KOVO s.r.o., a metal processor.
Sights
The Church of the Saint James the Great was built in 1698–1705, after the old wooden church from the 14th century was burned down in 1625. The altar from 1730 includes image of Saint James the Great
James the Great, also known as James, son of Zebedee, Saint James the Great, Saint James the Greater, Saint James the Elder, or Saint Jacob (Aramaic ܝܥܩܘܒ ܒܪ ܙܒܕܝ, Arabic يعقوب, Hebrew בן זבדי , '' Yaʿăqōḇ'', Latin '' ...
painted by Petr Brandl
Petr Brandl (Peter Johannes Brandl or Jan Petr Brandl) (24 October 1668 – 24 September 1735) was a Czech painter of the late Baroque in the bilingual Kingdom of Bohemia. Brandl was the sixth child in a Czech-German family. His father, Michal ...
.
Notable people
* Josef Čapek (1887–1945), artist and writer; lived here
* Karel Čapek (1890–1938), writer; lived there
*Richard Sacher
Richard Sacher (1 September 1942 – 27 February 2014) was a Czech politician and civil servant. He was the first post-Communist Interior Minister of Czechoslovakia for a year. He served from 1989 through 1990. He was also a member of the federal ...
(1942–2014), politician
Twin towns – sister cities
Úpice is twinned with:Piechowice
Piechowice (german: Petersdorf) is a town in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately south-west of Jelenia Góra, and west of the regional capital Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Bres ...
, Poland
References
External links
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Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Trutnov District