Brněnec
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Pardubický kraj | ||||
| District : | Svitavy | ||||
| Area : | 629 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 38 ' N , 16 ° 31' E | ||||
| Height: | 370 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,274 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 569 04 | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 4th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Jan Havlíček (as of 2006) | ||||
| Address: | Moravská Chrastová 77 569 04 Brněnec |
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| Municipality number: | 577863 | ||||
Brněnec (German: Brünnlitz ) is a municipality with 1,384 inhabitants in Okres Svitavy in the Czech Republic . It is located on the Svitava River , which formed the historical border between Bohemia and Moravia , 11 km north of Letovice and is the center of the Brněnec microregion.
history
The first mention of the place took place in the year 1557 in the deed of division of the rule Svojanow . In 1892, during construction work on the road to Deutsch Bielau ( Bělá nad Svitavou ) near the inn "New America" (Nová Amerika) located 1 km west of the village, remains of prehistoric clay pots were found. During targeted excavations, further finds were uncovered on this cemetery in 1893. In the cracks and caves in the neighboring mountain slope, called Quirgellöcher ( Jeskyně Čertovy in Czech ), remnants of early settlement had already been discovered.
With the construction of the railway from Prague to Brno, Brünnlitz received a station on this main line. In addition to the most important company, the Daubek Mill, numerous industrial companies settled here.
In 1930, Brünnlitz, including the former districts of Hinterwasser (Zářečí nad Svitavou, now part of the municipality of Březová nad Svitavou ) and Unterwald (Podlesí), had 606 inhabitants, of whom 208 were of German nationality. In 1939 Brünnlitz only had 490 inhabitants, the reason for this decline was the resettlement or emigration of Czechs after integration into the German Empire.
At that time the municipality area extended exclusively to the right, Bohemian, bank of the Zwitta (Svitava). Opposite, on the Moravian side, was the independent village of Moravská Chrastová, which with its districts Marienthal (Mariánské Údolí), Chrostau oil works (Chrastová Lhota) and Pulpetzen ( Půlpecen ) had 1,143 inhabitants in 1939 and thus more than twice as many as big as Brünnlitz was.
The place Brünnlitz belonged to the district and judicial district Politschka and became part of the German district Zwittau after the Munich Agreement .
In 1944 Oskar Schindler relocated his German enamel goods factory (DEF) including the associated warehouse with 1,200 Jewish forced laborers from Krakow to Brünnlitz to the ammunition factory he had acquired there. They thus escaped being transported to the extermination and were liberated on May 10, 1945. Today there are 800 jobs in Brněnec.
Community structure
The municipality of Brněnec consists of the districts Brněnec ( Brünnlitz ), Chrastová Lhota ( Chrostau oil works ), Moravská Chrastová ( Moravian Chrostau ) and Podlesí ( Unterwald ) as well as the localities Drahošov, Mariánské Údolí ( Marienthal ) and Sibíř.
Sons and daughters of the church
- František Bartoš (1905–1973), composer
- Helmut Fischer (* 1929 in Chrostau-Ölhütten), Protestant theologian
- Konstantin Mach OSB (composer; * 1915, maiden name: Friedrich Mach)
