Jablunkov

Jablunkov ( Jablunkau German, Polish Jabłonków ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers south-east of Třinec in the Beskydy Mountains near the border with Poland and Slovakia and belongs to Okres Frýdek- Místek.

Geography

Jablunkov is located at the confluence of the Olsa Lomna in the center of the furrow Jablunkov ( Jablunkovská Brázda ) in Jablunkov Bergland. To the east extends the mountain range of the Silesian Beskid Mountains to the southwest and the Moravian- Silesian Beskids.

Neighboring towns are Nawsi in the north, Písečná in the east, in the southeast of Pisek, Mosty u Jablunkova in the south, southwest, and Millikau Bozonowitz in the west.

Traffic

Through the town the road leads Europe 75 / State Road 11 from Český Těšín the Slovak Čadca. In addition, there is at Bukovec another road border crossing into Poland Istebna. The international long distance rail link Zilina Bohumín leads west past Jablunkov, the nearest station is in Návsí ( Nawsie ).

History

The first mention of Jablunkov was in 1423 in a deed Duke Wenceslas I Jablunkov was part of the Duchy of Cieszyn Silesia and was originally located at the castle Hradek. After the destruction of the castle and the village by the Hungarians in 1447 the site was recreated at its present location. Since 1496 Jablunkov had the status of a market. Duke Wenceslas III. Adam gave the town city rights in 1560. 1599 was an outbreak of plague.

Took place on 23 November 1938 in Jablunkau the signing of a protocol on demarcation of the state border between Poland and Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement, which came to town as Jabłonków to Poland. After the occupation of Poland, the town was incorporated in the District of Teschen and was until 1945 the German Reich. After the end of the Second World War, the city came back to Czechoslovakia. Still lives a Polish-speaking minority in Jablunkov.

Between 1868 and 1871 by the building of the Košice- Berger path whose course north-west led past Jablunkau. 1960 were incorporated Návsí and Bocanovice. In 1975 the incorporation of Horni Lomná, Dolni Lomná, Bukovec and Pisek and finally in 1980 by Hradek. This Jablunkov had 15,973 inhabitants, of whom 5,299 were Poland and 209 Slovaks. After the Velvet Revolution broke away on July 1, 1990, all incorporated villages up to Návsí again Jablunkov and became independent. On 1 January 1994, also separated Návsí and 1996 the name dispute was settled around the station in Návsí by this given the name Jablunkov - návsi. In July 2009, the reference to Jablunkov disappeared, and the station now bears the bilingual name Návsí ( Nawsie ). With the beginning of 2001 the new church Písečná was formed from several hamlets on the eastern outskirts.

1935 originated in Jablunkov a sanatorium. The sanatorium is now used as a sanatorium for tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.

Local structure

For the city Jablunkov no districts are reported. To Jablunkov heard a number of small hamlets.

Twin Cities

• Gogolin, Poland
• Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland

Attractions

• Marienplatz city fountain and pillar of the Immaculata
• City Hall, built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style
• Corpus Christi Church
• Building the lung clinic
• Convent of St. Elizabeth, 1928 built

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hantken Maximilian (1821-1893), paleontologist, Director of the Imperial Geological Institute in Budapest, Hungary