Březová (Meziměstí)

Březová
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Královéhradecký kraj
District :	After that
Municipality :	Meziměstí
Area :	98.4265 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 37 '  N , 16 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '35 "  N , 16 ° 13' 48"  E
Height:	450  m nm
Residents :	145 (2001)
Postal code :	549 83
License plate :	H
traffic
Street:	Teplice nad Metují - Vernéřovice
Railway connection:	Choceň – Meziměstí

Březová (German Birkigt , formerly Birkicht ) is a district of the city of Meziměstí in the Czech Republic. It is located two kilometers south of Meziměstí and belongs to the Okres Náchod .

geography

Březová is located at the northwestern foot of the Falcon Mountains ( Broumovské stěny ) in the Broumovská kotlina ( Braunauer Basin ). The village lies on a right tributary to the Vernéřovický potok. In the east and south, Březová is largely bypassed by the Choceň – Meziměstí railway line ; the train station Březová u Broumova , is located southwest of the village in the forest. The Březový Kopec ( Birkenberg , 456 m nm) rises to the northeast, the Honský Špičák ( Spitzberg , 652 m nm) to the southeast, the Příkrá stráň ( clapboard , 601 m nm) and the Prostřední vrch ( Hemmhübel , 573 m nm) to the south , in the west the Mračný vrch ( Friedstock , 587 m nm) and the Nad Studánkou ( Braunsche Lehne , 624 m nm) and to the northwest the Buková hora ( beech , 638 m nm).

Neighboring towns are Vernéřovice in the north, Alpská Víska ( Alps Dörfel ) and Bělidlo ( bleach ) to the northeast, Jetřichov the east, Lesní Domky ( Busch homes ) in the southeast, Hony , Pěkov and Končiny in the south, Lachov and Bohdašín in the southwest, Novy Dvur and Na Písníku in the west and Zdoňov in the northwest.

history

The village was founded in 1558 by the Braunau abbot Johann III. Founded by Chotow in the sandy plain at the foot of the Birkenberg, the first twelve settler families came from Braunau .

In 1833 the village of Birkicht , also known as Bürgicht or Březowa , in the Königgrätzer Kreis , consisted of 38 houses in which 232 people lived. The main source of income was agriculture and hand-weaving. In the village there was an inn in the Scholzerei. Birkicht was parish and schooled in Wernersdorf . The village remained subject to the Braunau monastery until the middle of the 19th century .

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Birkicht / Březová 1849 a district of the municipality Dittersbach in the judicial district of Braunau . On March 16, 1863, the parishioners of Birkicht brought a petition to the state parliament of the Kingdom of Bohemia to be removed from the parish association with Dittersbach. In 1868 the village was assigned to the Braunau district . On August 29, 1868, the state parliament approved the constitution of the municipality of Birkicht . Between 1873 and 1875 the Chotzen – Halbstadt railway line was built , which leads from the Mettau valley to the Steinetal and crosses the Falken Mountains between Bodisch and Birkicht . A breakpoint was set up above the Birkicht valley. The railway connection also offered good conditions for the establishment of smaller factories; Birkicht became a center of roller blind production . The entrepreneur Anton Rosenberg invented a self-rolling curtain device and began producing these new types of roller blinds at the end of the 19th century. At the end of the 19th century, the community name was changed to Birkigt . The economic upswing led to the establishment of an Imperial and Royal Post Office, which was named Birkigt-Bodisch . In 1885 Birkigt had 270 German-speaking residents throughout; in 1900 there were 233, including six Czechs. In addition to the roller blind manufacturer Rosenberg-Meier, the companies Hugo Burkert , which manufactured cinema screens, and the large joinery Josef Seidel were established in the village ; at the same time the house weaving came to a complete standstill. In 1913, 258 people lived in Birkigt, 256 of them were Germans. In 1920 the village had 255 inhabitants; ten years later there were 213, including nine Czechs (two families). In the mid-1930s, a light bunker line of the Czechoslovak Wall was built on the northern flank of the Falcon Mountains . After the Munich Agreement , Birkigt was added to the German Reich in autumn 1938 and belonged to the Braunau district until 1945 . In 1939 the community had 201 inhabitants. After the end of the Second World War, Březová came back to Czechoslovakia and the German population was expelled . In the course of the territorial reform of 1960 the Okres Broumov was abolished, since then Březová has belonged to the Okres Náchod. In 1961 Vernéřovice was incorporated . On July 1, 1985, Březová was incorporated together with Vernéřovice to Meziměstí. In 1991 Březová had 159 inhabitants. In 2001 the village consisted of 42 houses and 145 inhabitants.

Local division

The district Březová forms the cadastral district Březová u Broumova . Březová is separated from the rest of the city by the districts of Jetřichov and Vernéřovice.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Anton Rosenberg (1847–1941), entrepreneur and inventor. He also gained fame through his 34 trips to America

Honorary citizen

• Anton Rosenberg (1847–1941), entrepreneur and founder of the Birkig roller blind industry

Attractions

• Homestead No. 24 with ornate gables, monument
• Farmhouse No. 22 with ornate gables, monument
• In the wet meadows near Březová there is a protected occurrence of round-leaved sundew

Web links

• Birkigt on braunau-sudetenland.de
• Description on mezimesti.cz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/614670/Brezova-u-Broumova
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer , Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe: The Kingdom of Böhmen. Statistically and topographically presented, vol. 4 Königgrätzer Kreis , Prague 1836, p. 181
3. ↑ Protocol of the Landtag of March 16, 1863
4. ↑ Landtag protocol of August 29, 1868, the departure of Birkicht from the community association with Dittersbach and Hetzendorf (sic!)
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Braunau district (Czech Broumov). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20565661/13810901.pdf/3fde2441-c81b-4a1e-9b94-551e65007f70?version=1.0
7. ↑ http://pril.com/www.braunau-sudetenland.de/content_birkigt_002.html