Horní Počaply | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Bohemian |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Mělník |
Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
Coordinates: | 50.4244°N 14.39°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1288 |
Area Total Km2: | 12.39 |
Elevation M: | 160 |
Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1258 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 277 03 |
Horní Počaply is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.
The village of Křivenice is an administrative part of Horní Počaply.
Horní Počaply is located about 8km (05miles) northwest of Mělník and 34km (21miles) north of Prague. It lies in a flat landscape of the Lower Ohře Table. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the Elbe River.
The first written mention of Horní Počaply is in a deed of King Wenceslaus II from 1288. The village was divided into two parts and one was part of the Dolní Beřkovice estate from 1465, the other belonged to the Horní Beřkovice estate. This lasted until 1850, when an independent municipality was established.[2]
Horní Počaply is located on the railway line Prague–Ústí nad Labem.[3]
The main landmark of Horní Počaply is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is originally a Gothic church from the 13th or 14th century, rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style in 1869–1871.[4]