Svoboda nad Úpou

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Svoboda nad Úpou
Svoboda nad Úpou coat of arms
Svoboda nad Úpou (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Královéhradecký kraj
District : Trutnov
Area : 775 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 38 '  N , 15 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '0 "  N , 15 ° 48' 51"  E
Height: 516  m nm
Residents : 2,062 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 542 24
traffic
Railway connection: Trutnov – Svoboda nad Úpou
structure
Status: city
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Jiří Špetla (as of 2015)
Address: náměstí Svornosti 474
542 24 Svoboda nad Úpou
Municipality number: 579734
Website : www.musvoboda.cz

Svoboda nad Úpou (German freedom , also freedom on the Aupa , formerly Freyheit ) is a town in Okres Trutnov in Královéhradecký kraj in the Czech Republic .

Geographical location

City center and surroundings

The city is located in northern Bohemia in the Aupa valley between the Giant Mountains and the Rehorn Mountains , three kilometers east of the spa town of Janské Lázně ( Johannisbad ).

history

Nepomuk Church
Construction of the new bus station in 2009

The village was founded by Ferdinand I in 1546 , Rudolf II in 1580 and Ferdinand III in 1684 . privileged. From around 1560, Tyrolean lumberjacks were recruited and settled here. The settlement at the entrance to the inhospitable Aupa Valley was given the name Freiheit with good reason: From here you could cut wood, reclaim land and take possession of it and you were not subject to any lord except the emperor. On February 5, 1675 the village was bought by the princely family Schwarzenberg . Towards the end of the 18th century the place was a market town. At first the place was dominated by agriculture, in the 19th century Prosper Joseph Maria Piette founded a paper mill. Freedom has been at the Aupa terminus on the Trutnov – Svoboda nad Úpou railway line since 1871 .

After the First World War , the city was added to the newly created Czechoslovakia in 1919 . Due to the Munich agreement , the city was in 1938 to the German Reich affiliated and belonged until 1945 to the district Trutnov , Region of Usti nad Labem , in the Reich District of Sudetenland . In 1939 there were 1,271 inhabitants in the city. After the Second World War , Czechoslovakia took over the city. The German population was expropriated and driven out .

Demographics

Until 1945, Freiheit an der Aupa was predominantly populated by German Bohemians , who were expelled.

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1830 0639 in 129 houses
1833 0609 in 129 houses
1900 1682 German residents
1921 1319 including 1277 Germans
1930 1411
1939 1271
Population since the end of the Second World War
year 1970 1980 1991 2001 2003
Residents 2 180 2,499 2,436 2 259 2 216

City structure

No districts are shown for the town of Svoboda nad Úpou. The cadastral districts Dolní Maršov ( Marsh Village I ) and Maršov II ( Marsh Village II ) belong to Svoboda nad Úpou .

Attractions

  • Catholic Church of St. Johannes Nepomuk, rebuilt from stone by Prince Schwarzenberg in 1770 instead of the old wooden one
  • Statues of the Virgin Mary, St. Florian and St. Antonius on the main square
  • Theodor-Körner -Stele, erected in 1913 in the forest cemetery in Marschendorf
  • Catholic Church of St. Joseph, built in 1930 in the part of Maršov I (marsh village I)
  • Town hall , built in 1869

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. ↑ a b Jaroslaus Schaller : Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 16: Bidschower Kreis , Prague and Vienna 1790, pp. 128–130, item 12.
  3. ↑ Yearbooks of the Bohemian Museum of Natural and Regional Studies, History, Art and Literature . Volume 2, Prague 1831, p. 195, paragraph 17.
  4. ^ A b Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 3: Bidschower Kreis , Prague 1835, pp. 211–212, paragraph 10.
  5. ↑ freedom . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 7, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p.  67 .
  6. ^ Genealogy Sudetenland
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Trautenau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Czech population statistics
  9. ↑ http ://www. Freiheit.cz/2-freiheit---je-hezky-cesky-Svoboda-nad-Upou/38-svoboda-nad-upou.html
  10. ↑ Bylo jich jedenáct (There were eleven) ; FREEDOM - je hezky česky Svoboda nad Úpou; September 2, 2009

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