Vrbno pod Pradědem

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Vrbno pod Pradědem
Coat of arms of Vrbno pod Pradědem
Vrbno pod Pradědem (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Moravskoslezský kraj
District : Bruntál
Area : 6891 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 7 '  N , 17 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '15 "  N , 17 ° 22' 59"  E
Height: 545  m nm
Residents : 5,040 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 793 26
traffic
Railway connection: Milotice nad Opavou – Vrbno pod Pradědem
structure
Status: city
Districts: 5
administration
Mayor : Petr Kopínec (as of 2019)
Address: Nádražní 389
793 26 Vrbno p. Pradědem
Municipality number: 597961
Website : www.vrbnopp.cz

Vrbno pod Pradědem (German Würbenthal ) is a town in the Czech town of Okres Bruntál ( Freudenthal district ). It is attached to the Vrbensko microregion.

geography

Würbenthal ( Würbenthl. ) South of Breslau , southwest of Leobschütz and west of Jägerndorf on a map from 1909

The city is located in the Sudetes in the Jeseníky Mountains , about 25 kilometers west of Krnov ( hunting village ) and twelve kilometers northeast of the Jeseníky . In the basin north of the city, the oppa is formed from the confluence of its source rivers, the black , white and middle oppa . To the west of the city on the Burgberg are the remains of Fürstenwalde Castle . The health resort Karlova Studánka ( Bad Karlsbrunn ) is located nine kilometers southwest of the city .

history

The first known settlement dates from the 13th century. The place was expanded by Heinrich von Würben to a town with 200 houses and on June 24, 1611 he raised it to town. Würbenthal came into the possession of the Teutonic Order while he was still alive .

On December 5, 1880, the town received a rail connection from the Ebersdorf – Würbenthal state railway . At the beginning of the 20th century, Würbenthal had factories for metal goods, glass, flax spinning , thread production , jute spinning and jute weaving and was the seat of a district court.

Through the Munich Agreement in 1938 Würbenthal was assigned to the German Reich together with the Sudetenland ; until 1945 the city belonged to the district of Freudenthal , district of Troppau , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .

After the Second World War , the German population was expropriated and expelled in 1945 .

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1834 1,359 German residents
1900 3.113 German residents
1910 3,614 3,293 Catholics, 307 Protestants and three Israelites
1930 3,984
1939 4.029

On May 22, 1947, Würbenthal had 2,327 residents.

mayor

  • 1882 to 1905 Emil Grohmann
  • 1905 to 1909 Hugo Grohmann (the last honorary citizen of Würbenthal)
  • 1909 to 1912 Karl Schittenhelm
  • 1912 to 1920 Josef Nitsch
  • 1920 to 1930 Rudolf Ulrich
  • 1930 to 1934 Otto König
  • 1934 to 1938 Josef Thiel
  • 1938 to 1945 Emil Zöllner
  • currently: Helena Kudelova

City structure

The town of Vrbno pod Pradědem includes the districts Bílý Potok ( Weissbach ), Mnichov ( Einsiedel ), Vidly ( fork ) and Železná ( Buchbergsthal ).

The Einsiedel district had 2,214 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 2,100 on May 17, 1939 and 788 on May 22, 1947.

The district of Buchbergsthal had 828 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 800 on May 17, 1939 and 524 on May 22, 1947.

Twin cities

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. Faustin Ens : The Oppaland or the Opava district, according to its historical, natural history, civic and local peculiarities . Volume 3: Description of the Oppaland and its inhabitants in general . Gerold, Vienna 1836, pp. 196–199http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DZ4wAAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA196~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%20196%E2%80%93199~PUR%3D .
  3. a b Würbenthal . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 20, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  771 .
  4. Faustin Ens : The Oppaland or the Opava district, according to its historical, natural history, civic and local peculiarities . Volume 3: Description of the Oppaland and its inhabitants in general . Gerold, Vienna 1836, p. 240http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DZ4wAAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA240~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%20240~PUR%3D .
  5. Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Schlesien , Opava 1912, pp. 38-39.
  6. a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Freudenthal district (Czech Bruntál). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).