Hrabová (Šumperk District)

Hrabova ( German Raabe ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers south-east of Zábřeh and belongs to Okres Šumperk.

Geography

Hrabova is located at the foot of Úsovská Highlands ( Ausseer hills ) in the Müglitzer furrow ( Mohelnická Brázda ). The village is located on the left side of March along the inflow Hrabovský creek. West of Hrabova lead the Moravian Sázava and Vitošovský Nahon in March. To the north are the limestone quarries of Vitosov, behind the Trlina collected ( 523 m), northeast of the Bily kámen ( White Stone, 588 m), to the east the Polanka ( 498 m) and the Malá Polanka southeast (450 m).

Neighboring towns are Vitosov and Dolni Brníčko in the north, and Strupšín Rohle in the northeast, Janoslavice in the east, Bezděkov u Usova to the southeast, and Dubicko Bohuslavice in the south, Lukavice the southwest, Zvole in the west and Rájec, Ráječek and Leština in the northwest.

History

The village said to have been founded by the local chronicle in the 11th or 12th century and was originally named after the Lhotensystem Lhuota. The first mention of belonging to the reign Usov village took place in 1344. Úsover The goods were the property of the Moravian Margrave, they further submitted their vassals for faithful service as Mannslehn. Among the vassals included the Lords of Hrab. The place was to distinguish it from the numerous Lhoten the name Lhota Habrová, which derives from the Hrab. Later, the name of the village after the short form Hrabova commonly used in language use was made. 1447 acquired the Tunkl of Brníčko Hrabova and beat the village including the Barbican Court Vitosov and the local mill, the quarry and lime kiln to the rule Zábřeh. In the 15th century the Tunkl in Marc hoe west of the village could create the Raaber pond that was drained again in the 19th century.

After the abolition of patrimonial Hrabova / Raabe made ​​with the district Vícov or Vítešov / Witschau 1850 a municipality in the district chief city. 1898 originated in Hrabova the dairy cooperative villages Hrabova, Vitosov, Dubicko and Leština. 1894 established the producer F. Schmeiser in the former mill Vitosov a mechanical weaving mill. At the beginning of the 20th century, the company expanded the Hájek Kalkbrennerei for more kilns, opened up new quarries and built its own power plant. In 1920, the community of 98 houses and 840 inhabitants had. During this time, the Protestant movement " Pryč od Rima " was ( Away from Rome ) in the village very well received and the majority of residents joined the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. This was mainly due to the work of the charismatic vicar Rudolf Šedý, who traveled all over Europe. On SEDYS initiative, the construction of Bethalle goes back. In 1930 the community had 854 inhabitants Hrabova. While in Hrabova exclusively Czechs lived, there was a population of Witschau mostly of Germans working in the Schmeiserschen factory. After the Munich Agreement, the place in 1938 joined the German Reich and belonged until 1945 to the district chief city. 1939 lived 840 people in Raabe. After the Waffen- SS had executed in 1945, five men from Lesche / Leština Steinmetz on May 8, fell Czech residents of Leština in pogroms and fell on May 9 on the population living in Vitosov German ago. The Schmeisersche weaving was made in May 1945 under State Administration and later liquidated. In the factory Moravskoslezské elektrotechnické závody (CET) built a manufacturing plant. In 1960 in the former dairy of a cider mill and distillery. At the end of 1960, the Okres Zábřeh was disbanded and assigned to the municipality the Okres Šumperk. At the swimming pool since 1967, was a disused MiG- 15th Between 1971 and 1973, the company Rudné doly Jeseník built a new lime kiln in Vitosov. Between 1976 and 1990 Hrabova was incorporated to Dubicko. 1991 lived 608 people in the 150 houses in the community. In July 2008, the increasingly gutted wreckage was removed.

The Vápenka Vitosov s.r.o. is one of the three largest lime plants in the Czech Republic. The distillery operates today as Lihovar Hrabova sro

Community structure

For the community Hrabova no districts are reported. To Hrabova the settlement Vitosov heard ( Witschau ).

Attractions

• Explains prayer house of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, built 1928-1933 in 2003 as a cultural monument
• Stone cross in 1792, south of the village on the road
• Limestone quarries of Vitosov
• Chapel