Vlčice

Vlčice
Municipality and village

Inn in center of the village

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Vlčice

Location in the Czech Republic

Coordinates: 50°33′40″N 15°49′20″E / 50.56111°N 15.82222°E / 50.56111; 15.82222Coordinates: 50°33′40″N 15°49′20″E / 50.56111°N 15.82222°E / 50.56111; 15.82222
Country  Czech Republic
Region Hradec Králové Region
District Trutnov District
Area
  Total 19.75 km2 (7.63 sq mi)
Elevation 367 m (1,204 ft)
Population (2006)
  Total 444
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Website www.ou-vlcice.cz

Vlčice (German: Wildschütz) is a village and municipality in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

Hrádeček

Hrádeček (to 1950: Silberštejn, German: Silberstein) is village and cadastral community, part of the Vlčice municipality. Václav Havel bought a country house there in the late 1960s, he lived there in 1974 and 1975 (when he worked at the nearby Trutnov brewery)[1] and died there in 2011.

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