Leopoldov (Rudník)

Leopoldov
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Královéhradecký kraj
District :	Trutnov
Municipality :	Rudník
Geographic location :	50 ° 35 '  N , 15 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '51 "  N , 15 ° 45' 29"  E
Height:	406  m nm
Residents :
Postal code :	543 71
License plate :	H
traffic
Street:	Rudník - Trutnov

Leopoldov , popularly mostly Leopold , (German Leopold ) is a settlement of the Rudník municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers north of Hostinné and belongs to the Okres Trutnov .

geography

Leopoldov is located in the foothills of the Giant Mountains. The village is located in the valley of the Luční potok at the confluence of the Janovický potok.

In the east rise the Skalka (550 m) and Liška (514 m), southeast the Kamenná ( forest rock , 543 m), in the south the Čermenský vrch (493 m), southwest the Červená výšina ( Rote Höhe , 519 m) and the Soví vrch and the Pastvina (502 m) to the west. The forest area Dlouhý les ( Long Forest ) extends to the north . Road I / 14 between Vrchlabí and Trutnov runs through the village . There is a substation on the northern outskirts .

Neighboring towns are Javorník in the northeast, Hrádeček in the east, Vlčice and Jánský Dvůr in the southeast, Čermná in the south, Arnultovice in the southwest, Rudník in the west and Janovice in the northwest.

history

Leopoldesdorf was founded on January 27, 1677 in the corridors of the Mohren feudal estate by Leopold Wilhelm Albrecht, Reichsgraf von Waldstein . The new settlement on the way from Nieder Hermannseifen to Mohren was named after the landlord who founded it, as is customary when the town was founded after the Thirty Years' War. The Mohren estate, which is connected to the Hermannseifen allodial estate, remained in the possession of the von Waldstein family until 1706, after which the princes of Schwarzenberg acquired the estate and attached it to their rulership of Wildschütz . In 1713 the place was called Leopoldesdorff , Leopoldsdorff and Leopoldt . With the house numbering introduced in 1771, 20 houses were counted in Leopold . In 1789, Prince Johann von Schwarzenberg exchanged the Wildschütz rulership with the attached Hermannseifen estate and accessories from Emperor Joseph II for Borovany . In 1790 the Arnau textile manufacturer Johann Franz Theer, who was ennobled as Johann Freiherr von Silberstein in the same year, bought the property from the court chamber. In 1808 his son Franz Freiherr von Silberstein acquired the property. With the inheritance contract of 1815, the Hermannseifen estate with the feudal estates Mohren and Helfendorf was separated from the Wildschütz rulership and passed to Josef Karl Freiherr von Silberstein. In 1834 Leopold had 127 inhabitants and consisted of 21 houses. The lower part of the village with eleven houses and 75 inhabitants was parish to Hermannseifen, the upper part to Mohren. Until the middle of the 19th century, the majority of the village was subordinate to the Hermannseifen allodial estate, a small proportion belonged to the Arnau lordship .

After the abolition of patrimonial, Leopold formed a district of the Hermannseifen community in the Hohenelbe / Vrchlabí district authority from 1850 onwards . In 1879 Adolf von Silberstein sold the Hermannseifen estate to Friedrich Wihard from Liebau in Silesia . He sold it to the textile manufacturer Johann Adam Kluge in 1880. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the community was assigned to the new judicial district of Arnau in 1922. As a result of the Munich Agreement , Leopold and Hermannseifen were annexed to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Hohenelbe district until 1945 . After the Second World War, the place came back to Czechoslovakia. As a result of the expulsion of German residents, the number of residents fell sharply. During this time the place received the official place name Leopoldov , which is hardly used by the population. After the dissolution of the Okres Vrchlabí, Leopoldov was assigned to the Okres Trutnov at the beginning of 1961. In 1980 the place lost its status as a district.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Anton Rührich (1903–1945), Catholic clergyman and last German pastor in Olešnice / Gießhübel . At the end of the war he was arrested for illegal possession of weapons and taken to Peklo near Nové Město nad Metují , where he was executed on June 16, 1945 by members of the militia without trial.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia. Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 3: Bidschower Kreis. Calve, Prague 1835, p. 203.
3. ↑ http://giesshuebel.de/701ruehrich.htm