HrÄava
Hrčava ( Hertschawa German, Polish Herczawa ) is the easternmost community in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers north east of Čadca in Jablunkov mountain land belongs to Okres Frýdek- Místek.
Geography
Hrčava is located on the southeast slope of the 839 m high Girova on the border of the Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland. The village situated above the Čierňanka Valley is the easternmost community in the Czech Republic, however, the easternmost point of the country lies in the corridors of Bukovec. The only road connecting leads from Jablunkapass south of Girova after Hrčava. All the surrounding villages, the 3 - is 4 kilometers away, are only indirectly of 15 because of the poor accessibility of the place - to drive 45 km by road. For the Polish village Jaworzynka there is a border crossing for hikers.
Neighboring towns are Komorovsky Grúň and Bukovec in the north, and Jaworzynka Łącki in the northeast, Skalité the southeast, Čierne in the south and Mosty u Jablunkova in the West.
History
The village in the mountains of the Beskids originally belonged to Jaworzynka and has emerged only recently on the site of a former jumps.
After the collapse of k.u.k. Hrčava monarchy was part of Czechoslovakia. During the Polish- Czechoslovak border war the place belonged to those claimed by both sides areas and has been provisionally awarded to Czechoslovakia in June 1921 and thus detached from Jaworzynka and declared an independent settlement. With the surveying and registration in the land book of the boundary line on June 22, 1922, fixed and explains the limits in Cieszyn country on 20 June 1924 binding. The population of Hrčava had the annexation of Czechoslovakia forced, because the closest station was in Slovak Čierne was undisturbed and accessible through the new border. On October 6, 1927 Hrčava was finally declared to the congregation.
As a result of the Munich Agreement Hrčava was occupied Polish on 1 October 1938. In the following months 45 inhabitants fled from the place in the remaining parts of Czechoslovakia. On 1 September 1939 changed the occupiers and Hertschawa was the German district of Teschen incorporated. At the end of a census 1939 261 inhabitants were in Hertschawa found of which 99.6 % ( 260 people ) replied to the Silesian ethnicity, one person gave to the Polish ethnicity.
After the end of the Second World War, the village came back to Czechoslovakia.
After the division of Czechoslovakia was created in 1993 on the Jablunkapass to the Slovakian border customs clearance. Since on the pass branches also the only local access, Hrčava was until the inauguration of the ring road of Mosty u Jablunkova and thus the new Zollababfertigung on 24 October 1997, the only village in the Czech Republic, which was only accessible through the customs area.
Attractions
- Wooden church of St. Cyril and Methodius, built in 1936
- Triangle, just a mile southeast of the village
- Mountain Girova