Kalec
Kalec is a village and municipal part of Žihle in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. Since the 1990s, the village has no permanent inhabitants. The village was the site of several important events in the history of Bohemia.
History
Kalec's origins begin in the 13th century, it was a modest establishment with a bunker, inhabited by families of the low nobility formed during the middle age. Kalecs steps to be a part of the monastery in Plasy caused disputes between several feudal entities until 1346. In the 14th century, the monastery began to acquire properties in this establishment. During the period of the Thirty Years' War, Kalec was occupied several times by the Swedish army.In 1785, Kalec, after the approval from the Church, went to the dominions of Manětín and for the beginning of the 19th century it became part of Rabštejn nad Střelou. However, in 1787, the property was acquired by the Lazanský family.
With the formation of the Czechoslovakia state in 1918, the property was expropriated, and put under an agrarian reform which was put into the hands of a cooperative. In 1934, the property was acquired by Jaroslav Brček, an industrialist from Plzeň.
At the beginning of World War II, Kalec was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.