Olešná, Čadca District

Olešná (Hungarian Berekfalu - to 1907 Olesna ) is a city and a municipality in Okres Čadca of Žilinský in the far north of Slovakia with about 2,000 inhabitants ( as of 31 December 2010).

Geography

The municipality is located in the upper Kysuca Valley in the traditional landscape Kysuca, on the left bank of the Kysuca at their confluence with the river Olešianka. To the north of the main town rises the hill country Turzovská Highlands, across the river to the south Kysuca there are, however, Javorníky. The highest elevation is the Burkov vrch on the border with the Czech Republic with 1032 m nm Olešná is situated on a branch of the national road 487 and is seven kilometers from Turzovka and nine kilometers from Čadca.

Administratively divided the community in cadastral Olešná (previously Olešná I) and Burkov vrch (previously Olešná II).

History

The present town was developed as part of a colonization of the region in the later 16th and early 17th century. Already in 1325 there is a hill called Holesne, mentioned in 1435 as Wyrch Olessna. Olešná originated in the former area of ​​the city Turzovka and divided from it later. As an independent community it is mentioned as Olessna for the first time in 1580; other sources give 1619 as the earliest mention. Olešná belonged to the estate of Bitsch, which was once owned by the Thurzos.