Horní Staré Město
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Královéhradecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Trutnov | ||||
| Municipality : | Trutnov | ||||
| Area : | 1289 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 35 ' N , 15 ° 53' E | ||||
| Residents : | 9,191 (March 1, 2001) | ||||
| Postal code : | 541 02 | ||||
| License plate : | H | ||||
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| Railway connection: | Trutnov – Svoboda nad Úpou | ||||
Horni Stare Mesto (German Oberaltstadt or Oberaltstadt ) is a district of Trutnov in the Czech Republic .
geography
Along the Aupa (Úpa) upstream from Trautenau , south of the Rehorn Mountains, lie the villages of Nieder Altstadt (Dolní Staré Město), Upper Altstadt (Horní Staré Město) and Murky Water (Kalná Voda).
history
In the beginning, all places were dominated by agriculture. Industrial companies also emerged later. The villa and company (textile industry) belonging to the Etrich family of manufacturers were located in Nieder Altstadt. The aviation pioneer Igo Etrich comes from here . The Kluge textile company was located in Ober Altstadt, and the Hönig textile company in Trübenwasser. From the middle of the 19th century Oberaltstadt formed a municipality in the judicial district of Trautenau .
All three plants were nationalized after 1945 and combined to form the Texlen Textile Combine. In the next town, Jungbuch (Mladé Buky), there were branches of these companies.
In March 1940, a forced labor camp with Jews was set up in Ober-Altstadt. After its demise in March 1944, a command of the satellite camp there came Parschnitz the Gross-Rosen concentration camp with Jews. After the war it was operated by the Red Army as a prisoner of war camp.
population
In 2001 the village consisted of 479 houses in which 9191 people lived.
- Development of the population
- 1939: 3277 inhabitants
- 1991: 8229 inhabitants
Attractions
- church
- War memorial (erected in 1926, renovated in 2009)
- Old graveyard
- Stone cross
- chapel
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
Personalities
- Igo Etrich (1879–1967), aircraft designer
- Otto Weihrauch (1898–1966 / 82), German politician (KPD), Lord Mayor of Cottbus
- Josef Umlauf (1906–1989), urban and spatial planner
- Fritz Rieger (1910–1978), German conductor
- Karl Heinz Ritschel (1930–2019), Austrian journalist
- Willi Reiland (1933–2015), SPD politician
- Winfried Kreutzer (* 1940), Professor of Romance Studies
traffic
The Trutnov-Zelená louka stop is served by GW Train Regio trains.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Jews in Böhmen. Contributions to the history of European Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries . Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55521-9 , p. 153.