Gruna

Gruna ( German Grunau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located six kilometers east of Moravian Třebová and belongs to the Okres Svitavy on. South of the town lies the valley of the Třebůvka.

History

Grunau was founded in the mid-13th century by German colonists. 1365 was the place in the south of Schönhengstgaues to rule Trübau, this is also the first documentary proof of the place. The first mention of Seibelsdorf, which was then called Sybothin and belonged to the rule Cimburg, dates from that year. In 1398 also Seibelsdorf part of the turbidity rule was Auer.

Grunau was vicarage since 1486. In 1550 the Reformation found its way and 1625 was recatholicisation.

The place Charlottendorf with 23 points emerged in 1787, settlers in the division of the estate Wojes ( Svojanov ) in the reign Moravskotřebova.

The Gruenauer village school was opened in 1848, since 1900 it was performed zweiklassig. The inhabitants of the villages lived by farming, 1911, in Grunau a distillery.

After the replacement of patrimonial regimes were Grunau and Seibelsdorf independent places in the newly formed district Moravskotřebova. Charlotte village remained from 1850 to 1868 to Wojes belonging and received its independence until 1869.

After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the villages were incorporated as parts of the district Moravskotřebova in the Sudetenland to the German Reich. All three villages were populated almost exclusively German. After the end of World War 2, all Germans were expelled and the population loss could not be compensated by the settlement of Czechs. Gruna 1945 was the seat of a newly formed community Borušovské Mýto, which was disbanded in 1949. Karlin came as the district to Žipotín.

In 1960, the resolution of the Okres Moravian Třebová. At the same time Žipotín was including Karlin, whose name went down since that time, incorporated to Gruna and the place came to Okres Svitavy. In 1970, the parish church of St. Lawrence, built in 1834 was destroyed by a fire in Gruna. 1976 Gruna lost its independence and was until 1992 part of the city Moravian Třebová.

The nucleus Gruna had in 2001, 44 houses, 34 of which are used for residential purposes. In the village is the parish from 1863 and a chapel.

In Žipotín served 13 houses for permanent living. In the local situation Karlin, a total of 23 houses. Both in Žipotín as well as in Karlin is a small chapel. In addition, in the entire municipal area a number of buildings that are only used as summer residences, as well as holiday cottages. In May 2006, went in Karlin 2 wind turbines in operation.

Community structure

At the district municipality Gruna Žipotín ( Seibelsdorf ) is including the former village of Karlin ( Charlottendorf ). The coat of arms shows a bunch of grapes.

Population Development

*) Belonging to Wojes **) 1950: total population for Žipotín and Karlin ***) 2001: Of the 35 residents Žipotíns 31 live in the local situation Karlin Anne peace

An actual story from the 19th century was processed in 1913 by Josef Willhardt in his popular drama Anne peace.

In 1819, Josef Herkner, businessman and mayor 's son fell from Moravskotřebova in the villages Charlotte Förster daughter Anna glasses ( 1801-1823 ), whose parents were at enmity with each other. The Rangers people did not agree with a marriage of their daughter with Herkner and married her in 1823 with the Ranigsdorfer local judge Franz Anton Gromes. After Anna died still in the year of the wedding, stories circulated, which Herkner should have reburied the dead in his garden on the slopes of Cross Mountain. On the eve of St. Anne's Festival 1825, the turbidity Auer experienced a big surprise as the way out of town to the garden was marked with bonfires and Herkner Light the garden on a grave -like mound the writing out there, it was hot Anne peace readable. Investigations revealed quickly that the tomb was made-up and fake Herkner his mistress could not forget.

Almost 100 years later came true but the rumors of a reburial of the corpse of Anna Gromes than 1924 in her grave only an empty coffin was found. Finally, in 1934 workers met with quarrying in the area of the former Herknerschen garden at Kreuzberg elsewhere on a female skeleton. The mortal remains of Annas have been transferred to the family tomb of the Gromes.