Malá Morava

Malá Morava ( German Klein Mohrau ) is a municipality with 570 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It lies on the southern slope of Śnieżnik mountains at a distance of approx 8 km between the towns Králíky and Hanušovice. The village lies in the valley of the same river Malá Morava ( Small March ), which opens below the village in the March and heard the Okres Šumperk to.

History

The first mention of small Mohrau In 1350 in the establishment of the diocese Leitomischl. During the 15th century, probably by the Hussitenunruhen village and parish went out again.

1563 ordered the government Goldstein at reviving a court bailiff and had built a wooden church, which was used until 1621. After the Thirty Years' War, 66 farms were managed in 1677 in small Mohrau. Together for the villages of Great Mohrau ( Velka Morava ), and Woitzdorf ( Vojtíškov ) was built a new church.

In the higher-lying district glass Dörfel since 1437 was a glassworks in constant operation, which probably is the oldest of the whole area.

1834, the population of small Mohrau had grown to 913. In 1848 the place for the judicial district of Old Town and the Moravian Moravian Schönberger main team has been assigned. The 1876 scale investigation prison for Pascher and later customs station was converted into a local school, but this was abolished in 2001.

The agricultural character of the place has survived to this day, to industrial plants to settle only a pottery, a flat processing plant, a tannery and two mills.

After the Second World War, the German inhabitants were expelled. As of 1949, the state farm Hanušovice farmed the fields.

Because of lack of work left with time more and more inhabitants, the village that was depopulated and desolated by. The leather factory, a mill, dairy, and finally the pottery were shut down.

Attractions

Originally from the Rococo period stone sculpture of the Immaculate Conception in 1771, and the protected area of ​​the Baroque church of the Virgin Assumption of the Virgin are two monuments that bear witness to the heyday of the place.

Community structure

To Malá Morava the villages Křivá Voda include ( Krumm water), Podlesí ( Grumberg ) Sklené (glass Dörfel ) Vlaské ( Blaschke ), Vojtíškov ( Woitzdorf ) Vysoká ( Neudorf old. ) Vysoký Potok ( Hohenfluß ) and Zlatý Potok ( Goldenfluß ).

The district Podlesí was a mountain town in the 17th century. From Vysoká comes Franz Schubert's father, Franz Theodor Schubert. The municipal area, the extinct settlements Krondörfl and Valbeřice are ( Wallenberg village).

Personalities

  • Franz Theodor Wagner ( * 1763), teachers, administrators, and the father of Franz Schubert
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