Hrčava
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Moravskoslezský kraj | ||||
| District : | Frýdek-Místek | ||||
| Area : | 287 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 32 ' N , 18 ° 50' E | ||||
| Height: | 594 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 260 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 739 98 | ||||
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| Street: | Mosty u Jablunkova - Hrčava | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Peter Staňo (as of 2012) | ||||
| Address: | Hrčava 53 739 98 Mosty u Jablunkova |
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| Municipality number: | 598232 | ||||
| Website : | www.obechrcava.cz | ||||
Hrčava (German Hertschawa , Polish Herczawa ) is the second easternmost municipality (after the neighboring municipality of Bukovec ) in the Czech Republic . It is located ten kilometers northeast of Čadca in the Jablunkauer Bergland belongs to the Okres Frýdek-Místek .
geography
Hrčava is located on the southeast slope of the 839 m high Gírová at the border triangle of the Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland . The village above the Čierňanka Valley is the easternmost municipality in the Czech Republic, but the easternmost point of the country is on the Bukovec meadows . The only road connection leads from the Jablunka Pass south of the Gírová to Hrčava. All the surrounding villages, which are 3 - 4 kilometers away, can only be accessed by road via detours of 15 to 45 km due to the poor transport connections of the place. There is a border crossing for hikers to the Polish village of Jaworzynka .
Neighboring towns are Komorovský Grúň and Bukovec in the north, Jaworzynka in the northeast, Skalité in the southeast, Čierne in the south and Mosty u Jablunkova in the west.
history
The village in the Beskydy Mountains originally belonged to Jaworzynka and has only recently emerged on the site of former ski jumps .
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the Olsa area with Hrčava became disputed between Czechoslovakia and Poland. During the Polish-Czechoslovak border war , the place belonged to the areas claimed by both sides and was provisionally assigned to Czechoslovakia in June 1921 and thus detached from Jaworzynka and declared an independent settlement. With the measurement and entry in the land registers, the border course was fixed on June 22, 1922 and the borders in the Teschener Land were declared binding on June 20, 1924. The population of Hrčava forced its incorporation into Czechoslovakia because the nearest train station was in Čierne , Slovakia and could be reached undisturbed by the new demarcation. On October 6, 1927, Hrčava was finally declared a municipality.
As a result of the Munich Agreement , Hrčava was occupied by the Poles on October 1, 1938. In the following months 45 residents fled the place to the remaining parts of Czechoslovakia. On September 1, 1939, the occupiers changed and Hertschawa was incorporated into the German district of Teschen . A census at the end of 1939 found 261 inhabitants in Hertschawa, of which 99.6% (260 people) registered as Silesian, 1 person stated Polish ethnicity.
After the end of the Second World War, the village came back to Czechoslovakia.
After the division of Czechoslovakia, a customs clearance was established in 1993 on the Jablunka Pass on the border with Slovakia. Since the only local access branches off on the pass, Hrčava was the only village in the Czech Republic that was only accessible via the customs area until the opening of the Mosty u Jablunkova bypass and thus the new customs clearance on October 24, 1997.
Attractions
- Wooden church of St. Cyril and Method, built in 1936
- Dreiländereck, just under one and a half kilometers southeast of the village
- Mount Gírová
