Dolní Dvůr

Dolni Dvur ( German Niederhofstraße ) is a municipality with 244 inhabitants ( 1 January 2008) in the Czech Republic. The earlier significant mining town located 4 km northeast of Vrchlabí at the confluence of the creek Kotelský ( Kesselbach ) in the Klínový Potok ( wedge Bach), the Small Elbe is here, right at the foot of the Giant Mountains. N.M. The 641 m perched village located on the edge of the Natural Park Krkonoše and belongs to the Okres Trutnov on.

History

The area south of the Giant Mountains was settled in the 13th century under Přemysl Otakar II by German settlers. 1530 bought the Bohemian mountain Captain Christoph von Wittgendorf the villages Langenau Hohenelbe and Neudorf ( Nová Ves ) and established the rule Hohenelbe. Gradually acquired Gendorff more corridors of royal property, including the 1547 Langenauer hammer.

The proven since 1539 Low court became the center of the iron and silver mining area of Hohenelbe. Since 1601 Niederhofstraße, which had previously belonged to Langenau was an independent and significant mountain resort with cottages and hammers. In the same year a private mountain book was created. After the Battle of White Mountain in the possession of William of Stropschitz, including Niederhofstraße was confiscated; new owner was 1624 Albrecht von Waldstein, who issued his order for mountain Hohenelbe on July 19, 1625. After his assassination was Rudolf Freiherr Morzino new owner of Niederhofstraße; he sat by the recatholicization of the residents.

After the extinction of Morzin Niederhofstraße went 1881 to the Counts Czernin z Chudenic, 1919 sold it to the First Republic. For local area of ​​Niederhofstraße included several giant mountain chalets and homesteads.

The inhabitants of Niederhofstraße were almost exclusively German. 1798, there were 896 people, in 1828 there were 1,355. His greatest boom was the village, which was vicarage, in the middle of the 19th century; 1850, the population was 2,734 even, but until 1901 was halved again to 1,301. Until 1918 the village belonged to the district Hohenelbe.

After the end of World War II and the expulsion of these fell again significantly. 1947 lived in Dolni Dvůr how the place was now in its literal translation into Czech, 328 people. In 1961 there were 347

The place on the western slopes of the 1,024 m high Jelení vrch ( Boenisch mountain) and the adjacent Tetřeví vrch ( Pommer mountain, 964 m) lives mainly from tourism and is a ski resort with two ski lifts. In the center there is the built in 1802 Josefikirche whose organ was restored in 2001 with funds from the German -Czech Future Fund on the occasion of the 400th anniversary location.

On the municipal corridors, Bungalows Tetřeví are ( Auer Meadow Bungalows ), Hanapetrova paseka ( Hanapetershau ) Vápenice ( Kalkkoppe ) Kotelní boudy (boiler chalets ), Godrovy domky ( Goderhäuser ) Zvonička ( on schedule), Zlaté návrší (Gold level ) as well as the individual houses in the valleys Rudolfov ( Rudolfstal ) and Luisino Údolí ( Louisenthal ).