Jindřichov (Bruntál District)

Jindřichov ( German Henner village) is a municipality with about 1500 inhabitants in Okres Bruntál ( Freudenthal ), Czech Republic.

Geography

Geographical Location

The village is located ten kilometers east of Zlaté Hory ( Ziegenhals ) in the north of the Czech Republic and extends in the valley of the brook Petrovický Potok (Peter Brook ) parallel to the Polish border in the east-west direction. By Jindřichov the state road 457 from Zlaté Hory leads to Osoblažsko. Northeast of the border crossing to Poland is Bartultovice - Trzebina ( Bartelsdorf -Kunz village). The land area of the municipality is 3470 hectares.

Community structure

The municipality belongs to the district Jindřichov Arnultovice ( Arnsdorf ).

History

Henrikestorp was first documented in 1256; later it was called Heyne Rich village. The establishment of Henner village was part of the settlement of the inner parts of the country of Bohemia and Moravia with immigrants from Franconia, Thuringia and Saxony. The rule Henner village was 1250-1635 a fief of the bishops of Olomouc. The fiefs were purchased in 1635 for 39,000 guilders by Baron Georg Maximilian of Hoditz, who was raised in 1641 in the imperial counts. After about a hundred years the possessions fell back to the feudal lord, the Bishop of Olomouc, back. He sold Henner village in 1739 to Baron Johann Christoph von Bartenstein, it remained with his descendants until 1866. 1868 acquired Albert Knight of small goods in Hennersdorf for 310,000 guilders. The Barons of Klein- Wisenberg family in 1945 was the last German owner of Gutsbetriebe Henner village.

On October 4, 1844 came to a large village fire. 1869 a post office was opened in Henner village. In the same year the former parish school was nationalized. 1872 was the railroad from Röwersdorf about Henner village after Ziegenhals. 1885 founded the volunteer fire department.

Until 1918, Henner village belonged to Austrian Silesia and Austria- Hungary and to the political district Jägerndorf. In 1900, the population was 2936th The end of World War I brought in 1918 the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian multinational state and the creation of Czechoslovakia. Henner village and its almost exclusively German - Austrian population were part of Czechoslovakia.

In 1919, the construction of a first power supply of the village. 1920 opened the public school (Realschule). For the Czech minority in 1923 a school and kindergarten were built. From 1927-1931, the complete electrification of the village. In the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia was forced to cede 1938 large parts of their territory to the German Empire. This included Jindřichov, which were again Henner village called himself. The last municipal elections in Jindřichov on 22./29. May 1938 showed about 90 percent of the vote for the Sudeten German Party. On 6 Oktober.1938 German troops entered Henner village; the place was until 1945 part of the district Jägerndorf. Because of the Beneš decrees and decisions of the Potsdam Conference began on 13 August 1945, the expulsion of the German population from Jindřichov. Until February 1946, almost all Germans had to leave the village.

Attractions

• Jindřichov Castle, built in the 17th century
• Sculpture of Virgin Mary
• Catholic Church of St. Nicholas (built from 1671 to 1677, when large village fire in 1844 badly damaged )

Partner community

Since 2006, a partnership with the Lower Austrian village Henner.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Antonín Sperlich (1818-1887), painter