The village of Vršce is located in the district of Jičín in the Hradec Králové Region. The altitude of the built-up part of the village is 261 m, the highest cadastral places 304 m in the north and 320 m in the east. The area is 642 ha, of which 170 ha are forests. As of 1 January 2007, the municipality had 232 permanently registered inhabitants in 55 family houses and 6 apartment buildings. There are 28 cottages and cottages temporarily occupied, 9 uninhabitable houses.
Vršce was an Old Slavic ancestral community, Latin Wrschecium - the name was probably given by the surrounding area, in which they are set on 3 sides. The neighbors who settled here were called Vršice.
The first written mention of the village is from 1247, when it was a fief of the Crusaders of the German order, from the 17th century it belonged to the Schlik family from Jičíněves. According to archaeological research, however, the area south of the village and in the brickyard was inhabited as early as 7-9. century. This is evidenced by a number (about 50) of mounds west of the village and the fortified settlement called Češovské valy east of the village, which by its western rampart belongs to the Vršků cadastre. Below it is a hill called the local Christian, where Jan Žižka allegedly buried his fallen warriors in 1423 after the victory over Čeňek from Wartenberk near Velíš and the demolition of Kozojedský Castle. The mounds are one of the three largest in northeastern Bohemia, designed to register immovable monuments.
Spiritual administration with the church of St. Vavřince was established in 1350, a new Baroque one was built in 1726. The structure included Vrška, Slavhostice, Židovice, Běchary and Labouň.
Part of the church is an ancient timbered bell tower from 1515 of polygonal floor plan with an onion-shaped roof, originally covered with shingles, now sheet metal. It announced not only services, but also dangers and fires on 4 sides of the party to neighboring municipalities. There were 3 bells, 2 of which were requisitioned during the First World War, the remaining bell of St. John the Baptist from the 16th century weighs 20 tons, later a small bell called the death knell was transferred from the church. The church and the bell tower are listed as cultural monuments.
The municipal office can be found at Vršce 91, district Jičín.
Municipal office hours:
Monday 17:00 - 18:30
Thursday 17:00 - 18:30.