Sorting and categories - introductory information
The order of extinct municipalities, settlements, and hamlets (ZOOS) is determined first by the districts that fall within the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area. The districts are listed in alphabetical order according to their two-letter code. The district code always precedes the name of the ZOOS.
Česká Lípa: CL
Děčín: DC
Louny: LN
Litoměřice: LT
Most: MO
Teplice: TP
Ústí nad Labem: UL
Within each district, the German names of individual ZOOS are listed alphabetically, taken from the 1843 Stable Cadastre maps in the Imperial Mandatory Imprints (SK CPO) variant, which no longer appear on current maps. In a few exceptional cases, SK CPO maps were not available, so the so-called Original Maps (SK OM) were used for comparison.
The term ZOOS is used in a broad sense not only for the categories "Extinct municipality" (ob), "Extinct settlement" (os) and "Extinct hamlet" (sa), but also for the categories "Other" (ji) and "Other younger" (jm). The named categories are listed immediately after the district code in the inventory. In the Map section, these categories are color-coded for better clarity.
Extinct municipality (ob)
A municipality marked with its name on the SK CPO map, which had its own administration/self-government for at least a certain period of time between the first municipal (provisional) reorganization in 1850 and 1990, but no longer exists under its name on maps today. Currently, a maximum of 5% of the houses used (for recreation or permanent residence) in the territory of the extinct municipality may be from the number of houses recorded in the 1930 census.
Two extinct municipalities are registered.
Extinct settlement (os)
A part of a municipality marked with its name on the SK CPO map, which did not usually directly connect to the inhabited part of the municipality and consisted of at least 5 houses, but no longer exists under its name on maps today. The settlement was administratively part of the municipality. Currently, the territory of the extinct settlement may contain a maximum of 10% of the number of houses recorded in the 1930 census.
There are 19 extinct settlements registered.
Extinct hamlet (sa)
A part of the municipality marked with its name on the SK CPO map, which was not directly connected to the inhabited part of the municipality and consisted of a maximum of 4 houses, with not a single building remaining in the area today.
There are 30 extinct hamlets registered.
Other (ji)
This category includes all entities that were not primarily intended for residential purposes but served other purposes. These include:
- brickworks (Ziegelhütte)
- forester's lodge (Jägerhaus, sometimes Hegerhaus) as a small dwelling for the gamekeeper, who was responsible for supervising the entrusted forest district, protecting against poaching, and minor maintenance
- forest house (Forsthaus, sometimes Forstgebäude, exceptionally Waldhaus) as an administrative building for forest management, where the forester or forest ranger, who was a higher official than the gamekeeper, resided; it was used for management, administration, and organization of work in the forest; usually a larger building with offices, warehouses, or farm facilities
- rendering plant (Abdekerey) as a place where dead or slaughtered livestock were processed
- gravedigger's house (Todtengräber Häusel)
- mining foreman's house (Steigerhaus)
- sheepfold (Schäferey, sometimes Schaafstall); if a shepherd's house was mapped, then Schäferhaus or Schafhütte
- sheep farm (Hammelhof) as a farmstead (manorial) focused on sheep breeding
- manorial (or also farm) farmstead (Mayerhof, sometimes Meierhof) as a lordly (nobility, monastery, estate) farmstead managed by Mayer or Meier, i.e. the steward; usually a large enclosed or semi-enclosed area; animal production was concentrated here, there were grain stores, etc.
- water mill (Mühle)
- windmill (Windmühle)
- inn (Schänke)
- coaches inn (Wirthshaus)
- fruit press (Presse)
- factory (Fabrik), cotton fabric factory (Kattun Fabrik)
- mining facility (Zeche)
- ruin (Ruine)
- bathhouse (Badenhaus)
- church, completely destroyed during socialism (usually blown up) or severely neglected (now in ruins)
- prayer house (Bethaus) as an Evangelical (Protestant) prayer house
If there are several entities in the "Other" category with the same name within one district, each is assigned a Roman numeral so that it can be clearly identified (e.g., Ziegelhütte I, Ziegelhütte II, etc.).
There are 91 entities registered (23 brickworks, 18 water mills, 8 sheepfolds, 7 manor/farmsteads, 6 presses, 6 churches, 5 inns, 4 forester's lodges, 3 forest house, 3 windmills, 1 prayer house, 1 rendering plant, 1 bathhouse, 1 factory, 1 mining facility (4 tunnels), 1 ruin, 1 gravedigger's house, 1 mining foreman's house).
Other younger (jm)
Here are the entities in the "Other" category, which, however, were created after the Stable Cadastre maps were processed.
Six entities are registered (one summer residence, three inns, one inn with a lookout tower, one lookout tower).
Each ZOOS is assigned information in the following structure:
1. Name (German, Czech), category, SK map number
2. Location: region, district, municipality, part (cadastral area), geographical coordinates
3. History
4. Historical documents
5. Legends
6. Topography
7. Maps: historical, ZM 10, cadastral, tourist
8. Aerial photography
9. Historical photographs
10. Photographic documentation of the current state
11. Drawings and other documentation of the current state
12. Other
In the summer semester of 2024, students from the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem began processing documentation on selected ZOOS objects in the Ústí nad Labem district in the form of semester papers. With a few exceptions (ULob Babina, ULos in Czernischken), the results showed that it would be necessary to approach the issue of extinct settlements in a different way. At the end of 2025, AI proved to be a suitable tool, at least for covering the basic data for all the selected sites.
Note: the ZOOS links below are in Czech. Thank you for your understanding.
