HolÄovice
Holčovice ( German Hiller village ) is a municipality belonging to Okres Bruntál in the eastern Czech Moravian-Silesian Region with 747 inhabitants and an area of 40 km ².
Geography
Holčovice is laid out as a street village in the valley of the Goldoppa at an altitude of about 600 m asl
History
For the first time Hiller village was mentioned in 1377. In the second half of the 15th century was destroyed and the village was re-established in 1550. The certificate of incorporation was issued by Albrecht von fill block on Geppersdorf and Gotsch village anno 1558 on Wednesday after All Saints. The Popp mill was built in 1556 by Simon Mayer and existed until 1919. The first Protestant church was built in the years 1604 and 1605 entirely of wood. In 1691, the municipality had already 690 inhabitants, of whom 193 Catholics and 497 Protestant according to the Augsburg Confession. 1836 the municipality in the land of Francis II was recorded. Address of the Czechoslovak Republic from 1932 1338 inhabitants are listed. Hiller village was a mixed denominational Church who served between 1938 and 1945 the county Jägerndorf the Greater German Reich to. The German inhabitants were dispossessed and expelled in September 1946 due to the Beneš Decrees of 25 October 1945.
Mayor
Evangelical Church of St.
After the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 Protestant services were banned and expelled the pastors. The Protestant inhabitants were known only as tolerated and heretics. Following the adoption of the Patent of Toleration in 1782 was able to form a Protestant congregation in Hiller village. Since 1782, there are evangelical Kirchenmatriken. Each baptism, every wedding and every death but had also displayed at the Catholic rectory, entered there and therefor the Stolgebühr be dissipated. Only with court decree of 26 November 1829, the non-Catholic chaplains have been authorized to lead Birth, marriage and Sterbematriken in their diocese. Furthermore, they had served on the Catholic parish of any registration an accurate statement, so that the case would also noted in the Catholic Matric. Baptismal, marriage and death certificates were given only with Catholic approval shall remain valid. Religious equality was granted until April 8, 1861 by the so-called Protestants Patent by Emperor Franz Joseph I..
The following evangelical pastors have exercised in Hiller village church service:
Except for a pastor to two vicars in the Protestant church Hiller village were temporarily employed. In 1862 the congregation numbered 3971 Protestants, of which 1671 were living in the village Hiller, 1463 in Kuttelberg and chamber and 715 in Hirschberg.
Catholic church
1862 was one of the Catholic church in 2086 Catholics. The first Kirchenmatriken was created in 1687. After the introduction of house number by Maria Theresia this was recorded from August 1770 in the parish registers.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Türk (1840-1908) imperial parliaments, state representative, writer.
- Dobroslav St. Novak (1884-1919), Protestant pastor
- Ernst Erich Metzner (* 1938), German linguist, historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main
Local structure
The municipality consists of the villages Holčovice Dlouhá Ves ( Langendorf ), Hejnov ( Heinsdorf ) Holčovice ( Hiller village), Jelení ( Hirschberg ), Komora (chamber) and Spálené ( Kuttelberg ). The district Holčovice divided into the local locations Dolni Holčovice (low Hiller village) and Horni Holčovice (Upper Hiller village).