Libina

Libina ( German Liebau ) is a town in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers southeast of Šumperk and belongs to Okres Šumperk. The municipality was created in 1961 by merger of the municipalities Dolni Libina, Horni Libina and Obědné.

Geography

Libina extends over eight kilometers along the streams and creek Libinský Mladoňovský creek to Oskava of the Úsovská Highlands ( Ausseer hills ) to the Hornomoravský úval (Upper Moravian Valley ). Southeast rise of Bradlo ( Bradl stone, 600 m) and the Tří kameny ( Three stone, 558 m), to the east of the Brdo ( 497 m).

Neighboring towns are Mladoňov and Václavov in the north, Oskava and Mostkov in the northeast, Břevenec in the east, Šumvald the southeast, Nová Hradečná and Lipinka in the south, Kamenná in the southwest, Nedvězí and Obědné in the west and Benkov, Dlouhomilov, Dolni Olešná, Horni Olešná and Hrabišín in the northwest.

The municipal coat of arms

Since 2001 Libina has a new coat of arms, the wurde.Das developed from the old seal with the parish of St. George on flat ground between two foliage trees emblem calls with the banner of St. George, red on a white background in the paws of the Golden Lion, the consecration to the Saints in memory. The up -to-left lion refers to the crest of the rule Šumvald ( Schoenwald ). The quartered in red and gold lower half of the Shield of Libina represents the traditional red and gold Ancestral Arms of Liechtenstein. The blue color of the background field in the upper half to the local creek Libinský symbolize creek that flows through the entire village. The emblem represents a simplified version of the heraldic designed by a municipal working group proposal

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1348, when it was connected with other towns in the Schoenberger estates. 1535 acquired the Lords of Boskowitz on Aussee the village and beat it to their rule. Later the place came on the by inheritance to Frederick of Zierotin on Blauda, the Liebau 1568 the royal city Unczow sold. At this time, a distinction was made between Liebau village, Lhota and side. Since the 17th century, parts of situated on the Czech-German language border village were distinguished by the attributes of German and Bohemian ( Czech in with or Moravian ). The upper village was because of his German settlement as German Liebau / Německá Libina designated, while the lower part was called at the Oskava Liebau Bohemian / Moravian Libina. 1821 founded Norbert Langer in German Liebau a textile factory.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed German Liebau 1850 a municipality in the district of Moravian Schönberg. Bohemian Liebau also formed its own municipality, it belonged to the district Littau and from 1907 to the district Sternberg. In 1875 the screen and wire mesh products factory Zimmermann was founded. Between 1886 and 1890 the Langersche Mechanical spinning, which had 900 employees between the World Wars was born. In addition, since 1866 there was a textile factory Kauer. 1890 came with the factories of Pabel and spring man added two more and 1906 was spinning Blaschek. In addition, the location of the three quarries, two brickyards and three mills were operated. Also, was in German Liebau the urban forest district of Moravian Town. 1930 lived in the market town of German Liebau 4224 people in love village there were 443 and in Bohemian Liebau 808 After the Munich Agreement, all three 1938 the German Reich was connected. German Liebau and love the village belonged until 1945 to the district Moravian Schönberg; Bohemian Liebau the district Sternberg. 1939 Bohemian Liebau 751 inhabitants, German Liebau 3909 and Liebesdorf 420 After the Second World War made ​​the expulsion of the German inhabitants and repopulated with Czechs. 1947 Německá Libina was renamed in Horni Libina and Moravian Libina in Dolni Libina. The status of Horni Libina as Městys was not renewed in 1948 and the place fell from the village. On 1 January 1960 the municipality Libina was formed because Dolni Libina came from the dissolved Okres Šternberk to Okres Šumperk.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Dolni Libina Libina ( Bohemian Liebau ), Horni Libina ( German Liebau ) and Obědné ( Liebesdorf ).

Attractions

The village is recorded in the register of monuments of cultural heritage.

• Parish Church of St George ( Kostel sv.Jiří )

The church, dedicated to Saint George is a baroque building from the 18th century, the architecture of the Church of the Virgin of the Assumption ( Kostel Panny Marie narození ) in Nový Malín ( Frank city) recalls. The lovers Auer church was added to the list of cultural monuments in 1958. My Baroque appearance owes a radical extension reconstruction in 1721. The core of the tower and possibly the layout of the church is of medieval origin. On the right side of the turret front is a Baroque statue of St. John of Nepomuk from the years 1715-1720, in clear juxtaposition the statue of the Virgin Mary, a Baroque sculpture from 1715.

The history of the equipment is determined by multiple tags, sale of sacred objects and works of art as well as new acquisitions and renovations especially the altarpiece of the side altar of Saint George. After Bohumil Samek are located behind the main altar is a painting of St. George of Josef Jansa (1863 ) and remnants of the original reredos with the wooden figures of Saints Peter and Paul, and the sculpture of the Holy Trinity. From the initial condition are the pulpit, marble font ( 1725) and the altarpiece from the side altar of St. Anthony of Padua by Johann Christoph Handke ( 1725), which most likely originates from the Church of Mladoñov ( Bladensdorf ). The organ from the period around 1775 is the work of an unknown organ builder.

• The Kalvariensäule near the church is a neo-classical stone work from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The cross with the crucified Christ is the central axis, on the side consoles designed stand the figures of the Virgin Mary and the disciple John. The sculptures of turbulent gestures and the folds of the robes contrast with the static of the Cross and the massive volutes with the instruments of torture. On the base plinth are reliefs of Santa Rosalia.
• The small Calvary with balustrade on the way to Dolni Libina is referred to as a unique Rococo sculpture. The monument shows the increased crucified, flanked by the figures of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist on separate prismatic sockets with volutes. At the foot of the cross on a raised cartouche Mary Magdalene kneeling. The individual figure elements combine to create a moving compositional overall picture that is framed by a stone prayer bench, on their pillars figurative reliefs are incorporated from the life of Christ. The back was in German language the inscription: " Erected by Frideric Ridel in 1767 ".

• The cemetery cross was donated on the occasion of the dedication of the new cemetery in 1836 by the merchant family of Josef Sawodny Liebesdorf. The Crucified and kneeling on rocky ground Mary Magdalene resting on a square base with signature plate and a triangular pediment, the Virgin Mary and Saint John are mounted on lower prismatic pedestal on which the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus and St. Joseph with the Child available in flat rounded niches. The monumental sculpture shows the shape characteristics of historicism.

• The Holy Trinity Column, a classical work of 1796 rises above a pedestal with reliefs of the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel and Saint George. The Latin inscription on the base is the village under the protection of the " Holy Trinity ".
• The neo-baroque style by the sculptor Josef Obethfür the 1934 deceased CEO Adolf Langer designed mausoleum in now redesigned lovers Auer Parkist a freestanding rotunda. The front is divided by a decorative wrought iron gate and flanking pairs of columns with simple capitals. They carry a split volute with a sitting angel figure above the entrance. The bell-shaped roof dome is crowned by a lantern, on which a cross is placed. About the sarcophagus inside the tomb stands the half-relief of the Risen Christ, next to it is the marble bust of Adolf Langer.

• Farewell Chapel in the parish garden, built in 1716 as Pestkapelle
• Chapel in Dolni Libina

• The former villa of the owner family Langer is a neo-Renaissance of the period around 1900., The representative detached brick building with a rectangular ground plan follows with its symmetrically arranged components to strict architectural principles of historicism. There is a terrace whose stone columns and arches bear a balcony on the first floor on the east side. In the southern and northern facades semicircular niches are recessed in which allegorical female figures are representing architecture, sculpture, painting and music. Admission is done via a staircase with covered balustrade on the west side. The exterior was renovated in 2004. The building now houses the municipal library.

• The number 204 is a two-storey Empire - building from the year 1827. The detached brick house wearing a hipped roof. The facade is divided by pillars and unadorned flat bands. The arch of the entrance rests on massive undecorated pilasters. As part of the preservation of cultural sites of the village, the building is restored.

• Bradlo ( Bradelstein, 601 m), Tři kameny (three- stone, 558 m) and Kočičí rocks ( Katzenstein, 558 m ), the highest rock formations of Úsovská Highlands ( Ausseer hill country ) of quartzite and quartz conglomerates. The ridge is developed as a hiking area and because of its vertical and overhanging rock faces as a practice area for climbers. From the platform of the Bradlo results in a more panoramic view of the northern Moravia. The rock also serves as a trigonometric point for astronomical- geodetic measurements. The rock is of interest for geological and mineralogical research. In a Devil legend, the bizarre rock cubes and scattered rocks and boulders are interpreted as the result of a lost bet devil, which represent a broken-down castle unfinished. Another Czech narrative links the legendary Bradlo with the tale of Blanik, according to the inside of the mountain to sleep a large army of King Wenceslas and then wait, the threatened people to come to their aid. According the parallels he is also called Moravian Blanik ( Moravian Blanik ). Since the late 19th century are connected with the mountain and national expressions and ethnic celebrations of Czech and former German population.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Tilman Zülch (* 1939 in German Liebau ), German human rights
• Grete Kunz, known as Margarete Friebe Lung (* March 28, 1909 in German Liebau, † June 5, 1991 in Wiesbaden), painter, graphic artist, textile designer, author
• Albert Rotter ( born September 19, 1904 in German Liebau, † 13 December 1990 Wabern ), poet, prose writer and educator
• Rudolf Schön ( born April 5, 1908 in German Liebau, † January 22, 1979 in Vienna ), Austrian educator and Regional school in Vienna, author of numerous books on mathematics, considered the "father of set theory in Austria "
• Ferdinand Mauler ( born January 14, 1914 in Bohemian- Liebau, † February 21, 1982 in Rosenheim), Bavarian Landtag

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