Moravská Třebová

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Moravská Třebová
Moravská Třebová coat of arms
Moravská Třebová (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Pardubický kraj
District : Svitavy
Area : 4220 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 46 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '36 "  N , 16 ° 39' 37"  E
Height: 360  m nm
Residents : 10,070 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 571 01
structure
Status: city
Districts: 5
administration
Mayor : Miloš Mička (as of May 04, 2020)
Address: TG Masaryka 29
571 01 Moravská Třebová
Municipality number: 578444
Website : www.mtrebova.cz
City view 1840
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Moravská Třebová ( German Mährisch-Trübau ) is a town in the Okres Svitavy of the Pardubice region .

Geographical location

The city is located in Moravia on the Třebůvka ( Moravian Tricks ), a tributary of the March , in the landscape of the Schönhengstgau , the former largest German-speaking island in Bohemia and Moravia.

City structure

The town of Moravská Třebová includes the suburbs (Předměstí) and the incorporated localities Boršov ( Porstendorf ), Sušice ( Tsuschitz ) and Udánky ( Undangs ).

history

Under the rule of Lords von Boskowitz and Ladislav Velen von Zerotein from 1486 to 1622, Moravian-Trübau was a center of humanistic learning and was called "Moravian Athens".

At the 1930 census, the city had 8167 inhabitants (801 of them Czechs - 10%).

According to the Munich Agreement (September 1938), Mährisch Trübau belonged to the Troppau administrative district in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of the German Reich from 1938 to 1945 . After the end of the Second World War , the territories transferred to Germany in 1938 were taken over by Czechoslovakia . 1945/46 the German-speaking population was Trübau from the city Moravian expelled , their property by the Benes Decree 108 confiscated and the Catholic Church during the Communist era (1948-1989) expropriated .

Between 1850 and 1960 Moravská Třebová was a district town.

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1854 4,035 of which 4,025 Catholics with the German tongue, six Protestants ('Akatholics') and four Jews
1857 4,814
1900 7,733 mostly German residents
1930 8,167 801 of them are Czechs
1939 8,199
Population since the end of the Second World War
year 1970 1980 1991 2001 2003
Residents 9,892 10,966 11,668 11,586 11,414

Attractions

The city has been classified as an urban monument reserve since 1980 and has numerous individual monuments:

  • town hall
  • Town houses
  • Moravská Třebová Castle
  • Church of the Assumption
  • Loreto chapel
  • Church of St. Josef on the Kreuzberg
  • Kreuzkapelle on Kalwarienberg
  • Marian column
  • city ​​Museum
  • former Franciscan monastery
  • former Piarist high school
  • Latin school
  • Cemetery with numerous historical grave monuments

Peace of mind

For the historical incident on Křížový vrch ( Kreuzberg ), which was the starting point for a folk play by Josef Willhardt , see Annenruhe .

Twin cities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who worked in the city

  • Georg Pacák (1670–1742), sculptor
  • Thaddäus Supper (1712–1771), painter and sculptor
  • Vincenz Weber (1809–1859), doctor and poet, was the city physician, district doctor and court doctor
  • Alois Czerny (1847–1917), German-Moravian local history researcher
  • Moritz Schur (1860–1933), textile industrialist
  • Father Petrus Mangold (1889–1942), acting provincial for the Sudeten German Franciscan monasteries from January 1940, lived and worked in the Franciscan monastery in Mährisch Trübau until his arrest by the Gestapo.
  • Gustav Peichl (1928–2019) architect and caricaturist, attended high school for boys in Mährisch-Trübau in 1938 and was there from 1944 to 1947 as a technical draftsman at the municipal building authority

literature

  • Jan Šícha, Eva Habel, Peter Liebald, Gudrun Heissig: Odsun. The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans. Documentation on the causes, planning and realization of an "ethnic cleansing" in the middle of Europe in 1945/46. Sudeten German Archive, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-930626-08-X .

Web links

Commons : Moravská Třebová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. ^ Rudolf Hemmerle : Sudetenland Lexikon Volume 4, page 285. Adam Kraft Verlag, 1985. ISBN 3-8083-1163-0 .
  3. ^ Gregor Wolny : Church topography of Moravia . Part I: Olomouc Dioecese , Volume 2, Brno 1857, p. 447.
  4. ^ Carl Kořistka : The Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Silesia in their geographical relationships . Vienna and Olmüz 1861, pp. 268–269 .
  5. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 19, Leipzig and Vienna 1909, p. 753, Trübau 1).
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sud_mtruebau.html # ew39mtrbmaetrb. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).