Frýdlant nad Ostravicí

Frýdlant nad Ostravicí ( German Friedland on the Ostravice ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers south of Frýdek- Místek at the Ostravice and belongs to Okres Frýdek- Místek.

Geography

The city is located at the northern foot of the Moravian- Silesian Beskids left side of the Ostravice below the confluence of the Čeladenka. South-east rises the 1325 meters high Lysa hora. In the southwest of Ondřejník ( 890 m) lies at Skalka ridge ( 964 m). By Frýdlant the highway R 56 Ostrava leads to Nová Ves.

Neighboring towns are Metylovice and Pržno in the north, Lubno in the northeast, Malenovice in the east, Nová Ves and Nová Dědina to the southeast, and Ostravice Čeladná in the south, southwest, and Lhotka Pstruží in the west.

History

The village was founded in the late 13th century during the colonization of the area by the Olomouc Bishop Theodoric of Neuhaus. For protection of the episcopal dominion in the Ostravice, which formed the border of the Duchy of Teschen, was left of the river an Episcopal festivals to which developed the settlement. Until 1581 Friedland was part of the rule Friedberg and then came to power Hochwald. 1580 was the consecration of the church of St. Bartholomew. At the Ostravice iron hammers were operated, which processed the ore from the mountains of the Beskids. 1618 was the episcopal ironworks. During the Thirty Years' War the city suffered great damage. The inhabitants of the settlement were released on 7 May 1625 by their robotic services for Fried Ecker court to promote the iron and steel industry.

After the survey of the parish took place in the years 1672-1690 the reconstruction of the wooden church of St. Bartholomew to a stony house of God. Friedland became a well-known location of the iron smelting. In addition, the paper mill has been based since the second half of the 17th century. With the onset of the course of the 18th century beginnings of industrialization, the character of the place changed from a mainly of wooden buildings in the small settlement to a center of the mining industry. 1777 Friedland was raised to market. After the abolition of patrimonial Friedland in 1848 for the independent market town and had at that time already 2802 inhabitants. On 3 January 1871, after two years of construction, the range of kk inaugurated priv Ostrava - Friedlander railway from Ostrava to Friedland, the market got a connection to the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway. In addition to the traditional cast iron metallurgy, enamel kitchenware and engineering products was in Friedland art castings manufactured.

Archbishop Friedrich Egon von Furstenberg, built in 1871, the Monastery of the Borromäerinnen to which a private school for Archbishop employees and foresters was connected. 1886 burned down the church. 1891 Friedland had 2709 inhabitants. In 1913 the Archbishop's iron works at the newly founded Ferrum AG leased and later became part of the Vítkovice ironworks. Court seat and seat of the district was in Mistek. In the 1920s, for amending the current place name Frýdlant u Místku in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí was.

On October 12, 1948 Frýdlant became a town. Between 1949 the city belonged to Okres FRENŠTÁT, which was dissolved in the course of municipal reform, and then came to Okres Frýdek- Místek.

Local structure

Frýdlant nad Ostravicí consists of the districts Frýdlant nad Ostravicí ( Friedland ), Lubno and Nová Ves ( Neudorf ) and the settlements Bahno, Jaštěrák, Kamenec, Kúty, Nová Dědina, the Municipal, Paseky and Uhliska.

Attractions

• Bartholomew Church, built between 1672-1690 in place of the wooden previous building dating from 1580, after the fire of 1886, the reconstruction was completed in 1910
• City Hall, the neo-Renaissance was built in 1894 by the Catholic Education Association
• Historic landmark dating from 1669, the 2 m high stone was originally located at the Silesian shores of the Black Ostravice and marked the border between the episcopal rule Mistek with the Silesian rule Friedeck and bears the arms of the owner of Fried Ecker rule, Franz Eusebius of Oppersdorf. He is now in the garden of the pension Letohradek.
• Tomb for Ferdiš Duša
• Borromäerinnenkloster who built 1871 construction also includes a Neo-Romanesque religious chapel, St. Paul 's Basilica in Rome is trying to match
• Built chapel in Kamenec, 1818
• Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk in Nová Ves, built in 1910
• Marterlsäule of St. Francis of Assisi built at the end of the 18th century on the old road to Mistek
• Building the ironworks

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ferdiš Duša (1888-1958), painter and graphic artist
• Petr Faldyna ( b. 1976 ), the Czech football player