Ludgeřovice

Ludgeřovice ( German Ludgierzowitz, 1939-45 Ludgerstal, Polish Ludgierzowice ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 8 kilometers north- west of Ostrava and 2 kilometers southeast of Hlučín on the left bank of Oppa in Hultschiner Ländchen ( Hlučínsko ). Administratorisch it belongs to the Okres Opava, Moravian-Silesian Region.

History

The first written mention of the village Rudgersdorf took place on January 28, 1303 in a document of the castle Landek. dates from 1377. The town's name derives from its locator Rudger. From the R later became L by Slavic forming.

With the division of Silesia from 1742 Ludgierzowitz became Prussian. The new border to Austrian Silesia was the Oppa and ran south of the village. Hultschin was part of the circle Leobschutz and was assigned to the district reform in 1816 the county Ratibor.

The Treaty of Versailles, the village came to Czechoslovakia in 1920, though had clearly pronounced in the previous year in a referendum, the mährischsprachige population to remain in Silesia. For the assignment area the name Hultschiner Ländchen arose. The area was again incorporated on April 14, 1939 as a result of the Munich Agreement in the county Ratibor, after it had first belonged to the Sudeten German areas since 21 November 1938. 1939 the village was renamed Ludgerstal. In 1945 Ludgeřovice back to Czechoslovakia.

Community structure

For the community Ludgeřovice no districts are reported. To Ludgeřovice the settlement Vrablovec heard ( Wrablowetz, 1939-45 Sperling village).

Attractions

• The local church of St. Nicholas, with its 75 meter high tower is a neo-Gothic church. It was consecrated on November 18, 1907

Personalities

• Ludvik Kus (1931-2010), Czech priest