Supíkovice

Supíkovice ( German Saubsdorf ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic.

History

The village is said to have already existed in the year 1000. It is believed that the current existing church tower is part of a palace complex from that time, which has been lost. The town was on the trade route between Neisse and Freiwaldau two estates by the settlements with small farms that were the Good subservient. First mentioned in records is the place to 1284 in the " Thomas acts " of the bishops of Wroclaw as Supicovici. Supicowitz in 1300 and also Supeyngisdorf. Other names are Subichsdorf, then Supigisdorf, Saupisdorf.

" After 7 smallholdings to the year 1300, were added in 1400 further 8 more and in 1500 a further 14. From that time, certain of the limestone - ie Saubsdorfer marble - the events in the village with, because he was in kilns under low mountain, in the main, but in the lime kiln, the quarry next to the Oberhof ( 1842) "free lime burners ' of the to lime burned and verfachtet about the "old Kalkstraße » by horse and wagon by Neisse or Breslau ". Despite this development, the place was rural: " 1836 Saubsdorf has 113 houses, of which most are made ​​of wood. But it enjoys a stone church and school. ( ..) There are 758 inhabitants. " 1880, the church was rebuilt in neo-Gothic and equipped. The place was marked next to the farm structure through the marble industry. Under the village is a 2 km long stone wire pulls through the Spitzstein until the end of the village. A west of the village running marble vein was developed after 1800 by further quarries that used the marble not only to the production of lime, but building stone, such as levels and feeding troughs, made ​​. Approximately 1830 to 1840 was the stone industry, the refined marble for buildings and especially grave monuments.

An essential prerequisite for the development of the marble industry made ​​the railway connection through the station Sandhübel - Saubsdorf. In addition to the marble processing and Granite were processed and the annual amount of exported raw stones and marble products reached before the First World War, the amount of 1,500 m³. So Saubsdorf became the " Silesian Carrara ". To form the necessary skilled labor was on 15 February 1886, the presence of numerous quarry owner, master mason and member of parliament from Tomíkovice ( Domsdorf ), Adolf Latzel, a state technical school for processing a stone, a stone mason school for the marble, founded ( was in peace mountain in the same year a Steinmetz school for granite processing opened ). To the two places to the west Silesian natural stone industry focused with their schools, which ( who were operated primarily by women ), for example, in 1930 more than 800 stone grinders had in operation; in the rest of Czechoslovakia, there were about 400 Before the Second World War there were more than 20 industrial enterprises and stonemason workshops in which more than 500 people found work of the 1,700 inhabitants of the village. After the expulsion of the German population after 1945 fell apart the stone industry and the trade school was closed. In the former technical school now houses a folk and junior high school.

The municipality had Saubsdorf on December 1, 1930 1,734 inhabitants, on 17 May 1939 were 1,712 and on May 22, 1947 749 inhabitants. Today about 650 people live in Supíkovice.

Community structure

For Supíkovice no districts are reported. To Supíkovice the local situation Lomy heard ( Geisler field). It was created by the division of the land of the goods in the low end of the village of the 18th century as part of a land reform as the colony Geisler field (the term probably comes from the Gutsflurnamen - Gisse ). Until 1945, the houses were distinguished according to their membership Saubsdorf and Geisler field, where most of the houses were in the vicinity of the former good, ie near the stone school.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Albert Förster ( * 1832 † 1908); Founder of the granite industry in 1901 Hofsteinmetzmeister; 1938 approximately 1,800 workers and employees in eight farms in the district Freiwaldau.
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