Mohelnice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Olomoucký kraj | ||||
| District : | Šumperk | ||||
| Area : | 4620 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 47 ' N , 16 ° 55' E | ||||
| Height: | 267 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 9,189 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 789 53 - 789 85 | ||||
| License plate : | M. | ||||
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| Street: |
Olomouc - Zábřeh Svitavy - Uničov |
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| Railway connection: | Česká Třebová – Olomouc | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 8th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Pavel Cuba (as of 2020) | ||||
| Address: | U Brány 916/2 789 85 Mohelnice |
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| Municipality number: | 540471 | ||||
| Website : | www.mohelnice.cz | ||||
Mohelnice (German Müglitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 32 kilometers northwest of Olomouc in Moravia and belongs to the Okres Šumperk .
geography
Mohelnice is located in the Mohelnická brázda ( Müglitzer Furche ) at the confluence of the Mírovka ( Grundbach or Mühlbach ) in the March on the western bank of the river.
Neighboring towns are kvetin, Libivá, Lukavice and Háj in the north, Třeština and Stavenice in the Northeast, Hlivice, Kluče and Králová in the east, Tkanovice and Moravičany the southeast, Dolní Krčmy, Dolní válce and Horni Krčmy in the south, Újezd, Líšnice and Vyšehorky in southwest , Podolí in the west and Podolíčko and Křemačov in the northwest.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1131 by Bishop Jindřich Zdík in an ownership list of the Olomouc chapter. The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been traceable since 1247. In 1250, Bishop Bruno von Schauenburg granted Müglitz Magdeburg city rights . In 1307 and 1312 the plague raged in the city.
On October 28, 1424, the Hussites invaded Müglitz and devastated the city, which offered fierce resistance. The ingestion resulted in a blood bath and more than 700 people were massacred. In 1568 a city fire destroyed large parts of Müglitz.
During the Thirty Years' War the Swedes under Gábor Bethlen sacked the city in 1623 and in the same year the plague broke out again, from which a third of the residents died. Between 1642 and 1645 further plundering by the Swedes followed and epidemics broke out again. In 1685, pastor and dean Christoph Alois Lautner fell victim to the witch trials .
The last execution in the city took place in 1753. Potatoes were grown for the first time in 1772 and the first post office was set up in 1775. In 1828 the road from Olomouc to Prague was expanded and another one laid out in Hohenstadt to the north . In 1832 cholera broke out and claimed 100 victims. In 1836 the road connection to Mährisch Aussee was established . The town fire of 1841 destroyed 191 houses. In 1845 the railway from Olomouc to Prague started operating and a year later the train station in Müglitz was built. The next cholera epidemic, from which 300 inhabitants died, followed in 1849. This epidemic also broke out again in 1851, 1855 and 1866.
Old Town Hall
new town hall
The replacement of the basic rule Müglitz in 1850 seat of a district court and tax office. In the second half of the 19th century industrial companies settled here. The Doczekal company was founded in 1904, and the electrical engineering company is now a Siemens production site.
After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Reich and until 1945 belonged to the district of Hohenstadt , district of Troppau , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . After the end of the Second World War , the German-speaking population was expelled .
Demographics
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1900 | 4.213 | German residents |
| 1930 | 4,574 | |
| 1939 | 4,325 |
Community structure
The city of Mohelnice consists of the districts
- Křemačov ( Kremetschau ) with Podolíčko ( Kleinpoidl )
- Květín ( Quittein )
- Libivá ( Libein ),
- Mohelnice ( Müglitz ) with Dolní Krčmy ( Niederschwägersdorf ) and Horní Krčmy ( Oberschwägersdorf )
- Podolí ( Großpoidl ) with Horní Válce ( Oberwaldsee )
- Řepová ( Rippau )
- Studená Loučka ( Kaltenlautsch ) with Buková ( Trebuchet ) and Bušín ( Bushein )
- Újezd ( Augezd ) with Dolní Válce ( Niederwaldsee ).
Basic settlement units are Buková, Bušín, Horní Krčmy, Křemačov, Květín, Libivá, Mohelnice-jih, Mohelnice-střed, Mohelnice-západ, Moravičanské jezero, Nad dráhou, Podolí, Průmyslový obvod, Řepová, Zudenáj Úihoučdka, Zudenájúihoučdka and Zámeček.
The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Buková u Studené Loučky, Bušín u Studené Loučky, Křemačov, Květín, Libivá, Mohelnice, Podolí u Mohelnice, Řepová, Studená Loučka and Újezd u Mohelnice.
traffic
The European route 442 runs through Mohelnice . In the city of ends Olomouc next motorway Dálnice 35 (until 31 December 2015 R35 expressway), the west as / Silnice I 35 continues. The Silnice I / 44 branches off to the north . In addition, state roads II / 444 to Úsov , II / 635 to Loštice and II / 644 to Městečko Trnávka branch off in Mohelnice . The railway line Česká Třebová – Olomouc runs on the eastern edge of the city .
Attractions
- City gate from 1540 with remains of the castle from the 14th century
- Deanery Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, built in the 14th century
- St. Stanislaus cemetery church from 1584
- Plague column from 1717 on the market square
- Episcopal castle, now used as a museum
- Memorial at the place where the priest Christoph Alois Lautner was burned and a memorial plaque in the house of the witches.
- Jewish Cemetery
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Anton Brus von Müglitz (1518–1580), Austrian clergyman, Bishop of Vienna and Archbishop of Prague
- Martin Medek von Müglitz (1538–1590), Moravian clergyman, Archbishop of Prague
- Philipp Fabricius (* before 1608, † after 1628), office secretary and one of the three survivors of the second Prague lintel in 1618
- Thaddäus Supper (1712–1771), Moravian baroque painter
- Edmund Reitter (1845–1920), German entomologist, writer and businessman
- Max Bernhauer (1866–1946), Austrian entomologist (specializing in Staphylinidae )
- Richard Schmitz (1885–1954), Austrian politician
- Ernst Vasovec (1917–1993), Austrian writer
- Wolfgang Mück (* 1939), German educator, historian, local researcher and mayor
- Martin Horák (* 1980), Czech football player
Further
- Antal Stašek (1843–1931), Czech writer, lived in the city from 1913 to 1914
literature
- Eugen Syručžek: History of the municipal town of Müglitz in Moravia, Ollmützer Kreis, which was subordinate to the rule of Mürauer Schutz, from its creation to the fire on May 21, 1841 . Jungbunzlau 1841 ( e-copy ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obec Mohelnice: podrobné informace , uir.cz
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 14, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, p. 212.
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hohenstadt district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Části obcí , uir.cz
- ↑ Základní sídelní jednotky , uir.cz
- ↑ Katastrální území , uir.cz