Dolní Poustevna

Dolni Poustevna ( German: Lower Einsiedel ) is a Czech town in northern Bohemia District Decin.

Geography

Dolni Poustevna is 298 m above sea level in the Luční Brook ( Heimichbach ), which here in the Sebnitzbach ( Wölmsdorfer Bach, Czech Vilémovský Potok ) opens. East of the city is the 443 m high summit of Spálený vrch ( Hillebrand ).

History

Dolni Poustevna was founded in the 1280s.

Since the 19th century Dolni Poustevna as the neighboring Saxon Sebnitz was a center for the production of artificial flowers. After the Communist takeover in 1948 the many small workshops were summarized in the state-owned enterprises Centroflor. About 3,000 people were employed at that time with the artificial flowers production in Dolni Poustevna. After 1989, the markets for artificial flowers broke away quite rapidly, so that the company Centroflor was liquidated. Only in neighboring Velky Šenov ( Grossschönau ) is the production of artificial flowers still operated in an earlier part of the operation of Centroflor. Today in Dolni Poustevna home to a large Roma population, their share is growing compared to the rest of the population. Here, there were repeated conflicts.

Community structure

The town of Dolni Poustevna consists of the districts Dolni Poustevna (low Einsiedel ), Horni Poustevna (Upper Einsiedel ), Karlin ( Carolin Thal, also Karolinstal ) Markéta ( Margarethe village) and Nová Víska ( Neudörfel ). Basic settlement units are Dolni Poustevna Horni Poustevna, Karlin and Nová Víska.

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Dolni Poustevna Horni Poustevna and Nová Víska u Dolni Poustevny.

Culture and sights

Dolni Poustevna has an active puppet theater, a puppet theater festival organized annually.

Traffic

Poustevna has a station on the 1904/1905 opened railway line Rumburg - Sebnitz. The railway traffic over the border into Saxony Sebnitz was set in 1945, but 2014 should be resumed. Closing the gap with a 600 meter long railway track was completed in 2013. A road link leads to the Saxon town Sebnitz.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hans -Joachim Maaz (* 1943), German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

Movies

In 2007, the documentary " Poustevna that is paradise " completed, the linked life very different inhabitants of the place in episodes.