Moravský Beroun

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Moravský Beroun
Moravský Beroun coat of arms
Moravský Beroun (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Olomoucký kraj
District : Olomouc
Area : 5122 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 48 '  N , 17 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '47 "  N , 17 ° 26' 41"  E
Height: 525  m nm
Residents : 2,957 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 793 05
License plate : M.
structure
Status: city
Districts: 5
administration
Mayor : Zdenka Szukalská (as of 2014)
Address: náměstí 9. května 4
793 05 Moravský Beroun
Municipality number: 597678
Website : www.morberoun.cz

Moravský Beroun (German Bärn ) is a town with 3,118 inhabitants (as of Jan. 1, 2014) in the Czech town of Okres Olomouc ( Olomouc district ).

Geographical location

The city is located in the Sudetes at 525 m above sea level in the Lower Jeseníky in Moravia in a basin at the confluence of the Čabová (Sommeraubach) in the Důlní potok (Stollenbach), about 28 kilometers northeast of Olomouc .

Bear south of Breslau , northeast of Olomouc and southwest of Troppau on a map from 1909
Church of the Assumption

history

The town was founded before 1200 . The settlers may have come from Franconia (cf. place names such as Hof or Nuremberg ) or they were miners from the mining regions of Westphalia , e.g. B. the Sauerland .

In a document from King Premysl Otokar I there are indications that the residents of Bärn dug for iron ore and sandstone. Field names indicate that smelting and processing took place in hammer mills on site. The Bärner sandstone quarries are said to have supplied the sandstones for the Mauritz Church in Olomouc. The Bärner sandstone was also used to make millstones. Half-finished or broken millstones have been found in the sandstone quarries even more recently.

Flax cultivation and weaving followed later, as well as the textile industry in the second half of the 19th century . In 1898, the Bärn-Andersdorf-Hof narrow-gauge railway started operating; it was shut down in 1933.

By the Munich Agreement in 1938 Bärn was assigned to the German Reich ; in 1945 Bärn belonged to the district of Bärn in the administrative district of Troppau in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . The former district town had large proportions of German-speaking residents until 1946. The Germans were expropriated to 1947 and out of town sold .

Since January 1st, 2005 the city belongs to the Okres Olomouc, before it was part of the Okres Bruntál .

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1834 2,297 German residents, all Catholics with the exception of 16 Evangelicals
1857 3,185
1900 3,808 German residents
1930 2,973 99 of them Czechs
1939 2,999

On May 22, 1947, the city of Bärn had 1,957 inhabitants.

politics

Community structure

Moravský Beroun consists of the districts Čabová ( Brockersdorf ), Moravský Berou ( Bärn ), Nové Valteřice ( Neu Waltersdorf , formerly Meindörfel ), Ondrášov ( Andersdorf ) and Sedm Dvorů ( Siebenhöfen ), which also form cadastral districts.

Town twinning

coat of arms

Moravský Beroun coat of arms
 Blazon : "In blue on a green shield foot, a striding black bear , accompanied by an eight-pointed gold star at the top, at the front by black pliers and at the back by a left-turning black hammer with a handle in natural colors."

The bear reflects the German place name Bärn , pliers and hammer stand for iron smelting and mining, the star for belonging to the rulership of the von Sternberg family (coat of arms: "In blue an eight-pointed golden star").

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically . Volume 5: Ölmützer Kreis . 2nd edition, Brno 1846, pp. 747–752, point 2. in the Google book search
  • Heimatbuch Kreis Bärn, ed. Heimatkreis Bärn e. V. Langgöns, Langgöns / Marburg 2005.

Web links

Commons : Moravský Beroun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/597678/Moravsky-Beroun
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia. Described topographically, statistically and historically . Volume 5: Ölmützer Kreis . 2nd edition, Brno 1846, pp. 747–752, point 2. in the Google book search
  4. ^ Carl Kořistka : The Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Silesia in their geographical relationships . Wien and Olmüz 1861, pp. 268–269 in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Bear . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 2, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp.  386–387 .
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Bärn district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/597678/Obec-Moravsky-Beroun
  8. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/597678/Obec-Moravsky-Beroun