Štramberk

Štramberk
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Moravskoslezský kraj
District :	Nový Jičín
Area :	933 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 36 ' N , 18 ° 7' E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '31 " N , 18 ° 7' 3" E
Height:	415 m nm
Residents :	3,438 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	742 66
License plate :	T
traffic
Street:	Nový Jičín - Kopřivnice
Railway connection:	Studénka – Veřovice
structure
Status:	city
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Andrea Hlávková (as of 2019)
Address:	Náměstí 9 ; 742 66 Štramberk
Municipality number:	599948
Website :	www.stramberk.cz

Štramberk ( Stramberg ), with the Trůba tower of the Štramberk castle ruins

Štramberk ( German Stramberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located eight kilometers east of Nový Jičín and belongs to the Okres Nový Jičín .

geography

Štramberk is located in a basin in the Štramberská vrchovina ( Stramberger Bergland ). To the north rises the castle hill (509 m nm) with the Štramberk castle ruins , in the northeast the Bílá hora (557 m nm) and south of the Kotouč (511 m nm). To the west lies the Sedlnice valley. The town is located in the Podbeskydí Nature Park.

Neighboring towns are Závišice in the north, Kopřivnice in the east, Lichnov in the south-east, Ženklava in the south, Životice u Nového Jičína in the south-west, Žilina in the west and Rybí in the north-west.

history

City center seen from the castle ruins

Facade of a wooden house typical of the city

Traditional local pastry "Štramberk ears", according to legend, baked on site to commemorate a defensive attack by the Mongols in 1241

The mountain town in the center of the Štramberk plateau in the foothills of the Beskids, first mentioned in 1211, is also called "Moravian Bethlehem". It was named a city on December 4, 1359 by the son of the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg , the Moravian Margrave Johann Heinrich of Luxembourg .

On May 8, 1241 (Ascension Day) there was a battle between the Mongols and the local Strambergers. In memory of the victims of the Mongols, who are said to have cut off the ears of the Strambergers, pastries made from gingerbread dough, the so-called "Štramberk ears (ear waddles)", have been made since then.

After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the district of Neu Titschein , administrative district of Troppau , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .

Demographics

Population development
year	Residents	Remarks
1834	2,507	in 398 houses, mostly Catholics (30 Protestants)
1857	2,331
1900	3,052	Czech residents, in 439 houses
1930	3,591	, including 3,497 Czechs, 46 Germans and 45 foreigners in 577 houses
1939	3,524
1950	3,373	in 678 houses
1970	4.191	in 773 houses
2001	3,408	in 910 houses

Community structure

No districts are shown for the city of Štramberk. Basic settlement units are Bařiny, Kotouč, Libotínské Paseky, Rybské Paseky and Štramberk. Štramberk to also include the settlements Drážné, Na Kanadě, Na Kozine and Tamovice ( fir village )

Attractions

The historic city center was declared an urban monument reserve in 1969 .

The town is dominated by the ruins of the Štramberk Castle (German Strahlberg) with its cylindrical tower (Trúba), which is now used as a lookout tower.
Kotouč mountain with a view, important prehistoric finds were made in three caves between 1878 and 1883 , including the remains of the leg bone of a Neanderthal child.
Folk architecture complex of log houses from the 18th and 19th centuries
Šipka cave
Bílá Hora lookout tower
Botanical garden in a former limestone quarry
Museum about the illustrator Zdeněk Burian
Typical Moravian wooden houses