Fulnek
Fulnek is a town of about 6000 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is located 30 kilometers south of Opava in Moravia on the border of Silesia and is one of the Okres Nový Jičín to. The land area is 6800 ha
Geography
Fulnek is 258 m above sea level. M. brook in the valley of Husí at the confluence of Gručovka east of the Oder Mountains in Kuhländchen. Neighboring towns are Vrchy and Lukavec in the north, Derne, Kostelec and Kujavy in the east, and Stachovice Jestřabí in the south and Jerlochovice, Tošovice and Vlkovice in the West. South of the city in Stachovice created the route of the Dálnice 47
History
Fulnek is founded by the Lords of Lichtenburg, where Ottokar II had given the Duchy of Opava belonging to the country. The first written record of Fulnek comes from 1293rd The center of the village formed a square ring, which was created unusually large with 95 m side length. Over the centuries, several times changed hands, which included the nobility of Krawarn, Kostka of Postupice, Podiebrad, Zerotin and Skrbenký of Hriste.
1481 Fulnek came to Moravia. The city developed into a center of Czech Brethren, the last Bishop John Amos Comenius lived in the city from 1618 to 1621. 1619 Comenius wrote in Fulnek his criticism of social injustice listové do nebe and completed his work here on the map of Moravia, which was published in Amsterdam in 1627.
1632 were the Counts of Vrbno on Freudenthal owner of the city, which underwent a baroque remodeling in the 18th century. In the city since the 15th century there was a monastery of the Augustinian and in 1688 built the Capuchin order another monastery. As part of the Josephine reforms the Augustinian monastery was dissolved in 1784.
1788 acquired Karl Anton Czeike of Baden field Fulnek. The Baden fields sell their property in 1842 to Christian Friedrich Stockmar, the 1855 Prince Philip of Flanders resold it. 1835 had Fulnek ( with upper and lower suburb ) about 3500 to about 96% German -speaking inhabitants.
By 1870, the project of a railway from Opava over Fulnek was up to Trenčín, but this was never realized. After the First World War Fulnek came to Czechoslovakia and became a stronghold of the radical German National Socialist Workers Party.
At the end of the Second World War destroyed in May 1945, a major fire much of the historic downtown. Beginning in 1948, was based on plans by Zdenek Sedlacek a partial reconstruction. The German inhabitants were expelled in 1946 and settled Czechs from the Hanna and Wallachia and Slovaks.
Attractions
- Town hall with tower, built in 1610
- Plague, 1718
- Church of Holy Trinity, 1750-1760
- Knurrhaus, 1700
- Capuchin Monastery St. Joseph, 1668-1683
- Augustinian Monastery
- Castle
Boroughs
To Fulnek include the districts:
- Ern ( Tyrn ) with Kostelec ( Hochkirchen )
- Dolejší Kunčice ( Kunz village)
- Jerlochovice ( Gerlsdorf )
- Jestřabí ( Jastersdorf )
- Jílovec ( Eilowitz )
- Lukavec ( Luck )
- Pohořílky (mold village)
- Stachovice ( Stach Forest)
- Vlkovice consisting of Moravské Vlkovice ( Wolf Moravian village) and Slezské Vlkovice ( Silesian Wolf Village )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Joseph Thal Mr. (~ 1730-1807 ), architect
- Johann Leopold of Hay (1735-1794), bishop of Hradec Kralove
- Leopold Ritter von Dittel (1815-1898), Austrian urologist
- August Gödrich (1859-1942), German Cyclists
- Franz Ballner (1870-1963), Austrian physician and army Hygienist
- Arthur Green Berger (1882-1935), Austrian architect
- Franz Konwitschny (1901-1962), German conductor