Horní Město

Horní Město
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Moravskoslezský kraj
District :	Bruntál
Area :	3160 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 54 ' N , 17 ° 13' E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '26 " N , 17 ° 12' 43" E
Height:	550 m nm
Residents :	844 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	793 44
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	5
administration
Mayor :	Eva Machová (as of 2018)
Address:	Horní Město 97 ; 793 44 Horní Město
Municipality number:	597368
Website :	www.hornimesto.cz

Horní Město (German mountain town ) is a municipality in the Czech town of Okres Bruntál .

geography

Geographical location

It is located in the Sudetes in the headwaters of the Huntava river , five kilometers southwest of Rýmařov at the foot of the Jeseníky Mountains at an altitude of 550 m above sea level. M.

Mountain town south of Breslau , southwest of Freudenthal and west of Troppau on a map from 1909

Magdalenenkirche

Community structure

The municipality Horní Město includes the districts Dobřečov ( Doberseik ), Rešov ( Reschen ), Skály ( Hangenstein ) and Stříbrné Hory ( Neufang ) with the settlement Ferdinandov ( Ferdinandsthal ), which was dissolved in 1965 .

history

The place emerged as a mining settlement on a rich silver site in 1351. In 1398 the neighboring settlement of Hangstein, later called Hangenstein , followed. In 1580 Bergstadt was granted the privileges of an imperial free mining town by Emperor Rudolf II .

On December 1, 1930, the city of Bergstadt had 1,296 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 1251 and on May 22, 1947 674 inhabitants.

With the Munich Agreement in 1938 Bergstadt was assigned to the German Reich ; in 1945 Bergstadt belonged to the district of Römerstadt in the administrative district of Troppau in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .

The Germans were expropriated in 1945 and from mountain town sold .

Population development

Population development until 1945
year	Residents	Remarks
1834	1,293
1852	1,350
1930	1,206
1939	1,250

Culture and sights

The church of St. Maria Magdalena was built in 1611 and decorated with valuable paintings in 1690 by the painter Weintritt.

literature

Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically . Volume 5: Ölmützer Kreis . 2nd edition, Brno 1846, pp. 458–456, point 2.

Web links

Commons : Horní Město - collection of images, videos and audio files

City of Bergstadt (Rolf Jehke, 2011).
http://www.hornimesto.cz/ (Czech).
http://www.rymarovsko.cz/hornimesto/ (Czech).

Individual evidence

↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
^ Gregor Wolny: The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically . Volume 5: Ölmützer Kreis . 2nd edition, Brno 1846, pp. 458–456, point 2.
^ Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 2, Altenburg 1857. p. 612.
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opava (Czech Opava). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

[2] Gregor Wolny: The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically . Volume 5: Ölmützer Kreis . 2nd edition, Brno 1846, pp. 458–456, point 2.

[3] Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 2, Altenburg 1857. p. 612.

[MR-4] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opava (Czech Opava). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).