Hejtmánkovice

Hejtmánkovice ( German Hauptmann village) is a village in the Czech Republic, which adjoins the north-west corridors of the city Broumov. The six- kilometer farming village in the valley of the Voigt creek, a right tributary of the stones, extends to Jetřichov and belongs to Okres Náchod.

History

Captain village belonged to Politzer area that had assigned to the monastery Břevnov for reclamation of the Bohemian King Ottokar I. Přemysl. It was founded under the Braunauer Abbot Martin (1253-1278), settled at the instigation of Ottokar II with German colonists and created by German law. The initial written record was made in 1296 during the reign of Braunauer Abbot Bavors. The name at that time Haitfolksdorf probably goes back to the first Vogt awareness folk.

Captain village had no branch church and the parish was from the beginning to Braunau. For 1676 21 farmers, cottagers ten and nine field gardeners are detected. In the second half of the 17th century, which was already mentioned in earlier records and hitherto independent village Voigtsdorf united with Captain village. However, it was from a position different from the district later than Voigt Bach designated, which was only founded in the early 18th century. According to an entry in his diary was born on August 30, 1790 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Captain village, who had previously visited the Adersbach - Teplice Rocks. On July 14, 1847 aroused a stir that fell on Captain village and is on display in Prague's National Museum, a meteorite. 1850 Captain village a municipality in the district of Braunau court and later in the district of Braunau. The school year 1863-1864 spent the Czech writer Alois Jirásek in Captain village. It was a kind of student exchange ( " na Handl " ), were added at the Czech students to German and German students in Czech families, where they were to learn the other language.

In 1890 Captain village inhabitants in 1240 and had a three-class school. Of economic importance were in addition to agriculture and the crafts home weaving, a mill, several brick kilns and lime and stone quarries.

Since 1935, belonged to the captain villages farmer Josef Kahler ( 1878-1939 ) and Anton Just as deputies to the Czechoslovak Parliament to. After the Munich Agreement was captain village had predominantly deutschsprechige inhabitants, in 1938 the Reich District of Sudetenland annexed by the German Reich and belonged to May 1945 for the district of Braunau. In the years 1945 and 1946 was carried out the expulsion, while there were 17 fatalities. After the abolition of Okres Broumov Hejtmánkovice came in 1961 Okres Náchod. From 1986 to 1990 it belonged to the municipality Broumov.

Districts

For Hejtmánkovice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• The municipal area there are numerous shrines with statues of saints. The two bands of 1760 and 1765 were destroyed during the communist rule in the 1950s.

Personalities

• Josef von Schroll (1821-1891), Austrian industrialist