Krásný Les u Frýdlantu

Krásný Les
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Liberecký kraj
District :	Liberec
Area :	1348.6885 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 56 '  N , 15 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '15 "  N , 15 ° 7' 42"  E
Height:	335  m nm
Residents :	462 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	463 67
License plate :	L.
traffic
Street:	Frýdlant - Jindřichovice pod Smrkem
Railway connection:	Frýdlant - Jindřichovice pod Smrkem
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Bohumil Mádle (as of 2008)
Address:	Krásný Les 122 464 01 Frýdlant
Municipality number:	564168
Website :	www.krasny-les.cz

Church of St. Helena

Rectory

Krásný Les (German Schönwald ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located four kilometers northeast of Frýdlant and belongs to the Okres Liberec .

geography

Krásný Les extends along the stream Řasnice ( Rasnitz ) in the Jizera foothills (Frýdlantská pahorkatina). To the north rises the Mokrý vrch ( Kratzerberg , 420 m), on which there is a basalt quarry. In the northeast is the (asný ( Damerich , 433 m), south of the Chlum ( High Stone , 495 m), in the southwest of the Supí vrch (385 m) and in the west of the U Rozhledny ( Resselberg , 399 m). The secondary railway line runs through Krásný Les from Frýdlant via Nové Město pod Smrkem to Jindřichovice pod Smrkem , in the village there are the railway stations Krásný Les-Bažantnice and Krásný Les.

Neighboring towns are Bulovka in the north, Dolní Řasnice and Hajniště in the east, V Lukách in the south-east, Luh and Raspenava in the south, Frýdlant in the south-west, Údolí and Na Lišce in the west and Arnoltice in the north-west.

history

The village was founded in the second half of the 13th century, and the Church of St. Helena. The church was first mentioned in writing in 1346 in a document from the diocese of Meissen . 1381 Schönwald was listed in the land register of the Friedland rule . At that time the owners were the Biebersteiner . Since the 15th century, the Etzel family owned Schönwald and surrounding villages as a fief. With the death of Wolf Etzel, the family died out in 1574 and the feudal estate fell to the Lords of Redern on Friedland. After the Battle of the White Mountain , Christoph von Redern's goods were confiscated and handed over to Albrecht von Waldstein . After his murder, Matthias von Gallas received the rule. His descendants and, from 1757 onwards, the Clam-Gallas line of counts owned the lands until they were expropriated in 1945. During the Thirty Years' War the village and church were looted. In the 1650s, the Counts of Gallas began recatholizing their subjects. The Protestant residents had to leave the village and went into exile in the neighboring Upper Lusatia . Because of the heavy burdens, there was an uprising of the serfs in the Friedland rule in 1679 and 1680, the leader of which was the Rückersdorf blacksmith Andreas Stelzig. After the construction of the new church, the branch church belonging to the Friedland parish was elevated to a local church in 1778.

In 1832 Schönwald consisted of 151 houses with 776 German-speaking inhabitants. The church and the school were under patronage. There were also two grinding mills and a board saw in the village. At the western end of the village was the stately pheasant garden, from which an avenue led to the Meierhof Friedland. The village owned a considerable amount of forest, and some of the residents traded timber. Schönwald was the pastor for Rückersdorf . Until the middle of the 19th century, Schönwald remained subject to the allodial rule of Friedland .

After the abolition of patrimonial Schönwald formed a political municipality in the Bunzlauer Kreis and judicial district Friedland from 1850 . From 1868 the community belonged to the Friedland district . Over time, Schönwald and Rückersdorf grew together to form a closed settlement area. The Schönwalder Church, located on the corridor border of both places, was the parish church for both villages and the cemetery was also used jointly. The Neu Schönwald colony was formed along the Kaiserstraße to Seidenberg . In 1900 the community had 1095 inhabitants. On August 2, 1902, the Friedland District Railway started operating the local railway line from Friedland to Heinersdorf . In 1930 there were 1040 people in the village. After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Friedland district until 1945 . In 1939 Schönwald had 970 inhabitants. After the Second World War took place the expulsion of the German population. At the beginning of 1961 the Okres Frýdlant was dissolved, and Krásný Les became part of the Okres Liberec . In 1980 Krásný Les was merged with Horní Řasnice and Dolní Řasnice to form a municipality Řasnice , which dissolved again in 1990. Krásný Les today consists of 110 houses and 41 holiday houses.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Krásný Les.

Attractions

• Church of St. Helena, the Gothic church built in the second half of the 13th century and documented in writing since 1346, was replaced by a new baroque building in the years 1764–1771. The pulpit dates from 1787. After the fire in 1992, the church was restored.
• Rectory, it was built around 1778 at the expense of the community

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gottfried Menzel (1798–1879), priest and natural scientist

Web links

Commons : Krásný Les u Frýdlantu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website about the parish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/564168/Krasny-Les
2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
3. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer, Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 2 Bunzlauer Kreis, 1834, pp. 315-316