Polepy is a municipality and village in

Litoměřice District Litoměřice District () is a Okres, district in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Litoměřice. Administrative division Litoměřice District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Munici ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Polepy consists of six municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Polepy (680) *Encovany (184) *Hrušovany (173) *Libínky (138) *Okna (81) *Třebutičky (13)

Etymology

The name is derived from the verb ('to glue'). It denoted a village of people who glue something.

Geography

Polepy is located about east of

Litoměřice Litoměřice (; ) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat of the Roman C ...

and southeast of

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. ...

. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Ralsko Uplands, but the southern part with the village of Polepy lies in the

Lower Ohře Table The Lower Ohře Table () is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the Ústí nad Labem and Central Bohemian regions. Geomorphology The Lower Ohře Table is a mesoregion of the Central Bohemian Tab ...

. The highest point is at above sea level. The stream Úštěcký potok flows through the municipality.

History

The first written mention of Polepy is from 1227.

Demographics

Transport

Polepy is located on the railway line

– Lysá nad Labem.

Sport

The football field in the municipality was the site of

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

track in the 1960s and 1970s. The venue hosted a final round of the Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship for four consecutive years from 1966 to 1969.

Sights

The most valuable building is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Hrušovany. It was built in the Gothic style in the 14th century and extended in the 16th century. Around 1735, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style. Next to the church is a separate bell tower from the 16th century.

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