Polka (Vápenná)

polka
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Olomoucký kraj
District :	Jeseník
Municipality :	Vápenná
Geographic location :	50 ° 16 '  N , 17 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '0 "  N , 17 ° 5' 30"  E
Height:	505  m nm
Residents :	16 (2011)
Postal code :	790 64
License plate :	M.
traffic
Street:	Vápenná - polka

Village street

House with an ornamental gable

Polka (German Polke ) is a district of the municipality Vápenná in the Czech Republic . It is located nine kilometers northwest of Jeseník and belongs to the Okres Jeseník .

geography

Polka extends in the Reichenstein Mountains ( Rychlebské hory ) in the lower valley of the Ztracený potok . To the east rises the Na Vyhlídce ( Kalkberg , 569 m nm), in the southeast the Hlídka ( High Furth , 629 m nm), south of the Dlouhý hřbet ( goat back ), in the southwest the Lví hora ( lion's head , 1040 m nm), the Studený ( Zunderhorn , 1042 m nm), the Vysoký hřbet ( dog's back , 962 m nm) and the Kopřivník (Nesselberg, 925 m nm) and west of the Černý kopec ( Schwarzberg , 750 m nm). To the north are former limestone quarries with inaccessible karst caves Velký dóm and Roušarova jeskyně .

Neighboring towns are Vápenná the north and east, Bažiny ( willow swamps ) and Lesní CVRT ( bow reason ) to the southeast, Lipová ( Upper Lindewiese ) in the south, Petříkov , Velké Vrbno ( Großwürben ) and Paprsek in the southwest, Bielice in the west and Kamenné , Kamenná, Na Samotě and Nýznerov in the north-west.

history

The Polke colony was founded in 1775 by the Friedeberg Office of the Prince-Bishop's Johannisberg Estate in the stately forests. The settlers were loggers and shepherds. The Polke was conscripted to Setzdorf from the start , but at no time did it belong to the knightly Setzdorfer Scholtisei .

In 1836 the Polke colony consisted of 36 predominantly wooden houses in which 281 German-speaking people lived. The parish and school location was Setzdorf. Until the middle of the 19th century Polke remained subordinate to the diocese of Breslau.

After the abolition of patrimonial Polke formed from 1849 a district of the municipality Setzdorf in the judicial district Weidenau . From 1869 the village belonged to the Freiwaldau district. At that time the place consisted of 36 houses and had 226 inhabitants. The Czech place name Polka was introduced at the end of the 19th century. In 1900 there were again 226 people in Polke , in 1910 there were 202. In the 1921 census, 202 people lived in the 37 houses of the village, 201 of them Germans. In 1930 Polke had 209 inhabitants and consisted of 37 houses. After the Munich Agreement , the village was assigned to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Freiwaldau district until 1945 . After the end of World War II in 1945, Polka came back to Czechoslovakia; most of the German-speaking residents were expelled in 1945/46 . The repopulation was only successful to a limited extent. In 1950 only 45 people lived in 26 houses in Polka. During the territorial reform of 1960 the Okres Jeseník was abolished and the place was incorporated into the Okres Šumperk . Since the beginning of 1996 the village has been part of the Okres Jeseník again. In the 2001 census, 49 people lived in 16 Polka houses.

Local division

The district of Polka is part of the cadastral district of Vápenná.

Attractions

• Karst caves Velký dóm and Roušarova jeskyně . They are not open to the public.
• Ztracený vodopád ; Waterfall in a small side valley of the Ztracený potok

literature

• Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005 , part 1, p. 650

Web links

• History of Vápenná and Polka

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reginald Kneifel : Topography of the Kaiser. royal Antheils of Silesia. Zweyther Theil, third volume. Brno 1806, p. 126
2. ↑ Faustin Ens : The Oppaland or the Opava district, according to its historical, natural history, civic and local peculiarities. Volume 4: Description of the location of the principalities of Jägerndorf and Neisse, Austrian Antheils and the Moravian enclaves in the Troppauer district . Vienna 1837, p. 257
3. ↑ Chytilův místopis ČSR, 2nd updated edition, 1929 , p. 1009 Polina - Polome
4. ^ ↑ Část obce Polka: podrobné informace , uir.cz