Heřmánky (Libavá)

Heřmánky (German Hermsdorf ) is a desert in the Okres Olomouc northwest of Potštát in the area of ​​the Libavá military training area in the Czech Republic .

geography

The village was located 550 meters above sea level in the valley basin of the Hermsdorfer Bach, southwest of the Ziegenhalsberg (583 m) in the Oder Mountains .

history

Around the year 1258 a locator named Hermann recruited Thuringian and Saxon settlers who founded Heřmánky with him . The village devastated several times. In 1357/58 the plague raged, in 1429 Hussite invasions ravaged the place, from 1480 to 1490 the place suffered from a large number of deaths. In 1536 Hermsdorf was Lutheran, in 1582 again a desert. This year, citizens from Bodenstadt lease the deserted fields and meadows of the village.

After the Munich Agreement , Hermsdorf was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the district of Bärn . In 1939 the place had 143 inhabitants according to the census.

In 1946 the largely German-speaking population was evicted and the communal corridor became part of the Libavá military training area

Web links

• Entry in Submerged Places
• German information about the place
• Czech information about the place
• Say to Hermsdorf

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 17 ° 36'  E