Maletín

Maletín ( German Moletein ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers north east of Moravian Třebová and belongs to Okres Šumperk.

Geography

Maletín is located on a large clearing in the mountains of the Highlands Mirovská ( Mürauer Bergland ) in the headwaters of the river Mírovka. To the north rises the Jahodnice (590 m ), in the northeast of Skalník ( 587 m ) south of the Kačák ( 565 m), in the west the Bučina ( 556 m) and northwest of the Vysoký vrch (554 m).

Neighboring towns are Jahodnice and Dlouhá Ves in the north, Horni Bušínov, Krchleby and Javoří in the northeast, Mírovíček, Mírov and Mirovský Grunt in the east, Studena Loučka the southeast, Nový Maletín, Svojanův Dvůr and Svojanov in the south, Prklišov and Borušov the southwest, Dětřichov u Moravské Třebové and Staré Město in the west and Petrusov in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the farmyard Maletín took place in 1317 in a Lehnsurkunde of the diocese of Olomouc. The farm was granted by the diocese to various surrounding dominions as Lehn. The area was at that time also the Freigut temple belonged to the temple of the forest with the quarry, a farm and a fortress. For its location and existence but there is no proof. The village Maletín was created as an elongated Waldhufendorf in the valley of a source stream of Mírovka. It belonged to the Bishop Lehnsbezirk Müglitz and 1564 was connected to the castle rule Mürau. 1583 is the first time a church and parish in Maletín proven, it is probably much older. Since the 16th century also operate the Moleteiner sand quarry is busy. During the Thirty Years War, the area was deserted by epidemics and impoverished. Before the conquest of the castle Mürau in 1643 the Swedes ravaged the area.

1779 Temple Court was dissolved and its corridors were parceled. On them the settlement of New Moletein arose. After the founding of the new village, the old name of the intent Altmoletein received. Most residents living from agriculture, which was low yields in the mountainous area, and the house weaving and Woodcutting. At the beginning of the 19th century lived 1506 people in Moletein. Subsequently, the population declined sharply due to emigration. 1805 the construction of the new church in Altmoletein. At the same time school, rectory and the cemetery were created.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Old Moletein, Neumoletein and Ohrnes 1850 independent municipalities in the district chief city. By far the largest of the three villages was Old Moletein, which at that time had 1400 inhabitants and through its sand quarry possessed great importance. Altmoletein was also the vicarage. 1930 lived in Old Moletein 1012 people in New Moletein there were 94 and in Ohrnes 235 The area was part of the German-speaking island of Schönhengstgaus. After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the area was added to the German Reich and belonged until 1945 to the district chief city. 1939 Old Moletein 931 inhabitants, in Ohrnes there were 212 and in New Moletein 97 405 people lived in the place. After the Second World War, the German population was expelled. The repopulation was only to a small extent. Stary and Novy Maletín were after the first deportation without form, and were united in 1950 to a municipality Maletín. At the end of 1960, the Okres Zábřeh was disbanded and assigned to the municipality the Okres Šumperk. At the same time Javoří and Svojanov were incorporated. 1975, was added Krchleby, which again forms its own community since 1990.

Today Maletín is primarily a resort.

Moleteiner sandstone

Moleteiner sandstone found in numerous secular and ecclesiastical baroque buildings in northern Moravia use, the restoration of the castle was carried out with Bouzov Moleteiner stone. The heyday of the Moleteiner Steinbrecherei was the 17th and 18th centuries.

From Moleteiner sandstone was, inter alia, created the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc and the fountains of the city, of which only the Arion fountain is preserved. Among the most important buildings, built with this sandstone, heard the Jesuit College (1530) of Olomouc. The two historic quarries, once belonging to the Archdiocese of Olomouc and the princely Liechtenstein Gutsverwaltung, worked intermittently. The use cases are widely scattered within its long tradition. These include architectural elements, sculptures, wall stones, grave stones, Dutch and millstones.

The Moletiner Sandstone is a sedimentary rock within the system of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, specifically from the Cenomanian. The occurrence heard used in accordance with its lithostratigraphic classification for Korycany lineup and is located in the Orlice - Ždár - facies, a regional part of the southeastern Bohemian Cretaceous.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Maletín Javoří ( Ohrnes ), Nový Maletín ( New Moletein ) and Stary Maletín (Alt Moletein ) and the monolayer Jahodnice ( Beerhof ).

Attractions

• Church of Sts. Nicholas in Stary Maletín, the single-nave church was built in 1804-1805 in the Empire style
• Sculptural group at Calvary Cemetery Stary Maletín, created in 1848 by local sculptor L.Ch. Wanke
• Cemetery wall with two gates from the years 1821 and 1845
• Cross at the rectory, stonework dating back to 1750
• House No. 1 job created in 1839 with portal Moleteiner sandstone
• Baroque statue of St.. John of Nepomuk manufactured around 1720 by Georg Anton Heintz and F. Wanke.
• Marian column in the center of Stary Maletín created in 1725 and 1883 completed
• Old sandstone quarries in the temple forest and forest hospital, west of the town

Sons and daughters of the town

• Emilie Schindler (1907-2001), wife of Oskar Schindler, who was born in Old Moletein
• Helmut Altrichter ( b. 1945 ), Professor of East European History, born in Old Moletein