Kvilda

Kvilda
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Jihočeský kraj
District :	Prachatice
Area :	4518 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 1 ' N , 13 ° 35' E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '5 " N , 13 ° 34' 50" E
Height:	1062 m nm
Residents :	139 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	384 93
License plate :	C.
traffic
Street:	Rejštejn - Horní Vltavice
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	5
administration
Mayor :	Václav Vostradovský (as of 2018)
Address:	Kvilda 17 ; 384 93 Kvilda
Municipality number:	550337
Website :	www.sumava.net/kvilda
Location of Kvilda in the Prachatice district

Kvilda (German Aussergefild ) is a Bohemian Forest municipality located in Okres Prachatice . It is located in the South Bohemian Region about 80 km from its capital, České Budějovice .

geography

location

Kvilda is 7 km east of the border with Bavaria near Finsterau / Bučina . The border crossing there, which is forbidden to drive vehicles, is very popular with tourists in both summer and winter. The source of the Warm Vltava , one of the three source rivers of the Vltava , can be easily reached from here (6 km forest hike). The closest border crossing for motor vehicles is Philippsreut on the B 12 or I / 4 ( Freyung - Strakonice ), about 22 km southeast. Horská Kvilda is located 5 km north of Kvilda .

Community structure

The municipality of Kvilda consists of the districts Bučina (Buchwald) , Františkov (Franzensthal) , Hraběcí Huť (Count's Hut) , Kvilda and Vydří Most (Wiederbruck) . To Kvilda also includes the residential places Hamerské Domky (Hammer houses) , Lesní Chalupy (Waldhauser) and Vilémov (Wilhelm Forest) as well as the deserted villages Chaloupky ( Hüttel ), Na Mlýnské Mýtině ( Froschau also Mühlreuterhäuser ) Tobiasova huť ( Tobias hut also panel Berger cabin ) and U Tremlů ( Tremlhof ). Basic settlement units are Bučina and Kvilda.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Bučina u Kvildy and Kvilda.

Neighboring communities

Horská Kvilda		Nové Hutě
Modrava		Borová Lada
	Mauther Forst ( D )

history

Kvilda in the Bohemian Forest

Kvilda is located on the Goldener Steig , where it was founded at the end of the 15th century . Like many communities in the area, Kvilda had a glass factory since 1794 . In 1765 the Catholic parish church of St. Stephan was built, which fell victim to a major fire in 1889. After this catastrophe, Kvilda and its church (then in neo-Gothic style) were rebuilt by 1894. At the beginning of the 19th century, two companies were established in the village that were soon known far beyond the borders of the Bohemian Forest. In 1820 Peter Strunz began to produce resonance wood for musical instruments because of the exceptional altitude of the place and soon became a worldwide supplier for such special woods and their processing products. The Strunz company settled in Pocking in Lower Bavaria after it was expelled in 1946 . Also at the beginning of the 19th century , Johann Verderber, from Kočevje in the Krain region , founded a manufacture for reverse glass painting in Aussergefild. In particular, she produced reverse glass pictures with religious motifs. After 1884, this reverse glass manufacture was continued by Gabriel Schuster. During the Second World War, Franzensthal had an underground manufacturing facility owned by Messerschmitt AG , which was built in 1941 in the former paper factory under the cover name Möbelwerke Franzensthal . In 1945/46 most of the German-speaking residents were expelled.

Attractions

Museums

The municipality of Kvilda has set up a similar museum of local history in the town hall, which, like the museum rooms in Mauth, is a reminder of the town's tradition as a stronghold of reverse glass painting , the production of resonance wood for musical instruments, and skiing and tourism.

In 2001, the Prague entrepreneur and former sportsman Václav Vitovec laid the foundation stone in Kvilda for a museum he planned for the Iron Curtain , which will commemorate the border with Western Europe, which was hermetically sealed by the communist regimes of the Czech Republic and the Soviet Union until 1989 . The construction work for the museum did not get beyond the laying of the foundation stone until 2006.

Buildings

Kvilda is the first village on the upper reaches of the Warm Vltava . The village is also a theme in the symphonic poem Die Moldau from the cycle My Fatherland by the Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884). The dancing elves in the Moldauauau and dance music (polka) describe a festival of the people, the peasant wedding, in a melody . Today Kvilda is a tourist resort and tourist center of the Czech Biosphere Reserve Šumava .

Behind the Catholic parish church of St. Stephan lie the remains of the cemetery, which was almost completely removed in the early 1980s. After the church had fallen into the postwar period, it was after the turn renovated from 1994 to 1999 with the help of German donations. In the Bavarian community of Mauth , about 10 km from Kvilda, there is a small local history museum in the local town hall, which was set up by the community of the former Aussergefilder before 1989. The municipality of Mauth organizes a home meeting of the former Aussergefilder every two years, who are scattered all over Germany, but mostly live in the Schwandorf and Regensburg area.

Kvilda in snow

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

The place is entirely geared towards winter sports and summer tourism.

traffic

From Kvilda the route leads over the Goldener Steig to Bavaria. In 1990 a pedestrian crossing was opened between Kvilda and the Bavarian town of Finsterau . There is also a border crossing there that can be used by cyclists and pedestrians. It is connected to both countries by bus routes.