Valašská Polanka
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Zlínský kraj | ||||
| District : | Vsetín | ||||
| Area : | 1236 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 16 ' N , 18 ° 0' E | ||||
| Height: | 388 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 1,433 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 756 11 | ||||
| License plate : | Z | ||||
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| Street: | Vsetín - Horní Lideč | ||||
| Railway connection: | Bylnice – Vsetín | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Josef Daněk (as of 2010) | ||||
| Address: | Valašská Polanka 270 756 11 Valašská Polanka |
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| Municipality number: | 544990 | ||||
| Website : | www.valasskapolanka.cz | ||||
Valašská Polanka , until 1929 Polanka , (German Wallachian Polanka ) is a municipality in the Moravian Wallachia in the Czech Republic . It is located nine kilometers south of Vsetín and belongs to the Okres Vsetín .
geography
Valašská Polanka extends on the left bank of the Senice between the confluences of the Pozděchůvka, Vápenka, Veřečný potok and Senínka. To the west is the Vizovice Mountains and to the east the Javorník Mountains . The village is located on the western border of the protected landscape area CHKO Beskydy. To the northeast rises the Snoz (618 m), in the east the Žáry (762 m), Filka (769 m) and Padělky or Padělek (710 m), to the southeast of the Radošov (756 m) and Hradisko (773 m), in the south the Javorník (720 m), southwest of the Sulačov (551 m), in the west of the Lány (614 m) and the Vartovna (651 m) and northwest of the Strakov (547 m). The state road I / 57 from Vsetín to Valašské Klobouky leads through Valašská Polanka , from which the Silnice I / 49 to Vizovice branches off at the southern end of the village . On the right side of the Senice is the Bylnice – Vsetín railway , where the “Valašská Polanka” station is located.
Neighboring towns are U Lukých and Leskovec in the north, U Polušků, V Zadilském, Hovězí and Veřečný in the Northeast, U Vlků, Zděchov and U Ondrušků in the East, U Vaculů, Štědroňov, Skřítkov and Lužná in the southeast, Heinzův Mlyn, Vráblovy Paseky, Neratov and Dvořiska in the south, Pozděchov and Prlov in the southwest, Jasenná in the west and Seninka in the northwest.
history
The first written mention of Polanka was in 1361 in a document of the papal curia as the property of the Smilheim monastery . At that time, a busy trade route from Vsetín to Brumov and Hungary ran through the village . After the fall of the monastery, the village belonged to the Vizovice estate . In the 16th century there were initially frequent changes of ownership until Zdeněk Kavka von Říčany bought the goods in 1575 and joined the Brumov rule. When the Turks invaded in 1663, 22 houses in the village were burned down and around 100 people were killed. In the course of the division of the Brumov rule, Polanka was separated from Brumov in 1673 and added to the Vsetín rule. A little later, Georg Illésházy had to cede parts of his rule to the creditors on Vsetín because of excessive indebtedness, so Polanka came back to the Brumov rule. After the division in 1731, the village belonged to the First Lordship of Brumow (Brumov I). The owners were still the Count Illyesházy. The oldest local seal dates from 1748. On April 28, 1780, Emperor Joseph II traveled through the village on the way to Vsetín; as the road had become impassable due to the flooding of the Senice , the emperor had to change his route via Seninka and Rokytnice. The local weaver and bookbinder Jan Aron Bubela took advantage of the emperor's transit to the night quarters in Vsetín Castle to present him with a petition from 25 Wallachian villages for religious freedom. After the rulership was divided into three, the village belonged to the First Rulership of Brumow from 1731. The inhabitants of the village lived from agriculture, which, however, was not very bearable. For this reason, haulage services, the home-made production of clapboards, pocket knives (křiváky) and linen as well as charcoal making were an important source of income for the residents. Until the middle of the 19th century, Polanka always remained subservient to the Brumov I rule.
After the abolition of patrimonial Polanka formed from 1850 a municipality in the district administration Meziříčí and the judicial district Vsetín. In the second half of the 19th century, because of the great poverty, emigration, especially to America, began. In 1881 alone, 18 residents of the village emigrated overseas. During the First World War, 163 men from Polanka fought for the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on the various fronts, nine of them joined the Czechoslovak Legion. During the First Republic, many of the residents found wages and salaries in the Baťa factories in Zlín . Since 1910 the municipality has belonged to the Vsetín District. On October 21, 1928, the Vsetín-Bylnice railway was inaugurated. Since the 1930s there are plans to build a railway line Otrokovice – Vizovice – Valašská Polanka . The completion of the section between Vizovice and Valašská Polanka with a 320 m long tunnel between Prlov and Polanka has never gone beyond the planning phase since 1937. In March 1929 the parish name Polanka was changed to Valašská Polanka . During the German occupation , the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Group "Jan Žižka" operated in the surrounding mountains. Because of the support of the partisans, retaliatory measures were taken by the National Socialists in Juříčkův Mlýn, Ploština and Prlov . The German occupiers fled from the approaching Red Army via Vsetín to the interior on the night of May 3rd or 4th, 1945. On May 4, 1945 the place was occupied by the partisans and the Red Army. One of the village's homesteads was converted into the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov . The church was remodeled in 2000.
Local division
No districts are designated for the municipality of Valašská Polanka. The Veřečný settlement belongs to Valašská Polanka.
Attractions
- Classicist church of John the Baptist, built 1778–1779. Jan Illésházy provided the building material for the construction of the church, the rectory and the trivial school. The vault collapsed while the church was being built. In 1802 the church was enlarged. It got its present form in 2000, when the dilapidated wooden tower on the roof was demolished and replaced by a tower building designed by the Vsetín architect Petr Osička. The cost of building the tower was CZK 1,700,000. The renovation of the church was completed in 2003.
- Stone cross with the coat of arms of Count Illésházy on the foot, in front of the church, created in 1779, restored in 2000, it is protected as a cultural monument.
- Memorial stone for those who fell in World War I, erected in 1934
Sons and daughters of the church
- Josef Kašpar Vrchovský (1871–1947) Wallachian poet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)