Lichkov
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| Basic data | |||||
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Pardubický kraj | ||||
| District : | Ústí nad Orlicí | ||||
| Area : | 913 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 5 ' N , 16 ° 40' E | ||||
| Height: | 528 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 520 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 561 68 | ||||
| License plate : | E. | ||||
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| Street: | Žamberk - Králíky | ||||
| Railway connection: |
Jablonné nad Orlicí –Králíky Chlumec nad Cidlinou – Międzylesie |
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| structure | |||||
| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Brůna Zdeněk (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Lichkov 203 561 68 Lichkov |
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| Municipality number: | 580571 | ||||
| Website : | www.lichkov.cz | ||||
Lichkov (German Lichtenau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 14 kilometers east of Žamberk and six kilometers south of Międzylesie on the border with Poland and belongs to the Okres Ústí nad Orlicí .
geography
The village is located in the southeast of the Eagle Mountains on the southern tip of the Glatzer Kessel in the valley of the Silent Eagles . The state border with Poland runs north; in the east is the 534 m above sea level. NN high Grulicher or Mittelwalder Pass (Czech Králický průsmyk , Polish Przełęcz Międzyleska ) over which an important road and railroad crossing of the Czech-Polish border on the route to Kłodzko ( Glatz ) and Wroclaw leads. To the south rise the mountains Vysoký kámen (842 m) and the Bouda ( Baudenkoppe , 844 m) belonging to the ridge of the Suchý vrch , over which the bunker line of the Czechoslovak Wall runs. The Bouda artillery plant ( Baudenkoppe fortress ) is located on the slope of the Bouda .
Neighboring towns are Kamieńczyk in the north, Boboszów in the north-east, Dolní Lipka in the east, Dolní Boříkovice in the south-east, Těchonín , Celné and Dolany in the south-west, Mladkov in the west and Petrovičky in the north-west.
history
Lichtenau was first mentioned in a document in 1569 as part of the Grulich rule . It emerged as a settlement of glassmakers after Jan Burian von Žampach divided the rule of Žampach in 1568 and Grulich had sold it to Zdenko von Waldstein . A glassworks had been operating on the Stillen Adler since around 1560. After Dominik Preußler and Paul Schürer , it belonged to Johann Friedrich (II.), From whom his son Christoph inherited it before 1641. In 1633 most of the residents of Lichtenau died of a plague epidemic . In 1836 the place consisted of 157 houses and had 939 inhabitants. Until the end of the patrimonial rule in 1848, Lichtenau remained part of the Grulich dominion and owned by the Counts Althann .
In 1871 the wood processing company Fehr & Wolf was founded. On January 14th, 1874, the Austrian Northwest Railway started operating on the route from Königgrätz to Wichstadtl and Lichtenau. In 1875 the railway connection was established over the Grulicher Pass into the Silesian Mittelwalde . In 1880 the population had risen to 1,323. As a result of the Munich Agreement , the place came to the German Reich in 1938 and became part of the Grulich district . After the Second World War, the German residents were expelled. After the resettlement, in 1950 652 people lived in Lichkov. The wood goods factory was destroyed by fire in 1973.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Lichkov.
Attractions
- Church of St. Joseph, the neo-renaissance style building was built between 1889 and 1892
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, on the state border, erected in 1730
- Pramen Knížete Rostislava ( Prince Rostislav Spring ), radioactive spring, southwest of the village
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ↑ Václav Šplíchal, Jaroslav Sula: Bedřichovsko-kaiserwaldský sklářský okruh. In: Kladský Sborník 5, 2003, ISSN 1212-1223 , pp. 127–142, here p. 129.
