Jindřichov (Šumperk District)

Jindřichov ( German Heinrichsthal ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located about four kilometers northeast of Hanušovice and belongs to Okres Šumperk.

Geography

Jindřichov is located west of the Jeseníky at the transition to gold Steiner mountain land in the valley of the river Branná. To the north of Rudny raise vrch ( Erzberg, 628 m) and the Peklo (Hell Mountain, 649 m), in the northeast of losin (deer stone, 726 m), east of the Sklenský vrch ( Orlich, 866 m) and Ucháč ( Ohrenberg, 1008 m ), in the south of Kamenný kopec ( Steinberg, 625 m ) southwest of the Hanušovický vrch ( Busch mountain, 658 m) and Šumný (611 m). By Jindřichov leads the railway line Hanušovice - Głuchołazy, the station is named Jindřichov na Moravě.

Neighboring towns are Pleče and Vikantice in the north, Nové Losiny in the northeast, Labe in the east, Pusté Žibřidovice the southeast, Potůčník in the south, Hynčice nad Moravou and Hanušovice in the southwest and Habartice in the northwest.

History

The oldest written reference to the territory of the municipality dates back to 1351 and concerns the district Habartice.

1862 built Josef Abraham Winternitz in the Valley of Branná in place of a mill belonging to Wüst Seibersdorf a paper factory. The resulting next to the factory Werksiedlung Heinrichsthal was first performed in the end of 1862 records of the district office Wiesenthal. Located on both sides of the river houses belonged partly to the land of libertine Seibersdorf and partly to splash. The factory was built in 1867 converted into a public limited company under the name Heinricht Thaler paper mill AG. 1888 Heinrichsthal received a railway station on the railway from Hannsdorf to Bad Ziegenhals. In 1900, 333 people lived in the colony Heinrichsthal. In the 1920s the factory employed 750 workers. After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the site added to the German Reich and belonged until 1945 to the district Moravian Schönberg. After the Second World War, the German inhabitants were expelled.

In 1949 the municipality Jindřichov na Moravě was formed and Pusté Žibřidovice incorporated with the districts Potůčník and Sklená. In the municipality in 1950 lived 322 people in 77 houses. For the employees of the paper mill originated in 1951 in Jindřichov the new housing estates Kozmálov and Rakousko. Potůčník was spun off again in 1953 and connected to Hanušovice. Built in 1961, the paper mill, the new housing development Nová colony. In 1968 the incorporation of Habartice with Pleče and Rudkov. Until the termination of cellulose production in 1975, the paper mill caused major environmental damage. In 1976, the Nove Losiny including Františkov, Josefova and Labe was connected at the same time also came Pekařov, which had previously belonged to Bukovice, added. Thus, the church grew to 4850 acres and had at the beginning of the 1980s, 1472 inhabitants. In the district Jindřichov lived 1991 924 people in 133 houses, the municipality had a total of 1306 inhabitants. The largest company is the paper mill Olšanské Paper Mill Inc. závod Jindřichov.

Community structure

The municipality Jindřichov consists of the districts Habartice ( Ebersdorf ), Jindřichov ( Heinrichsthal ), Nové Losiny ( New Ullersdorf ) and Pusté Žibřidovice ( Wüst Seibersdorf ), the settlements Františkov ( Franzthal ), Labe ( Elbe), Pekařov ( basin floor ), Pleče ( splash ) and Rudkov ( ore ) and the waste places Josefova ( New Josefsthal ) and Sklená ( Glasdorf ).

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St.. Isidore in Nové Losiny, built 1711-1714
• Church of the Immaculate Conception in Habartice, the detectable since 1351 the church got its present form when converting from 1842
• Church of St.. Mary Magdalene in Pusté Žibřidovice, built in 1735
• Church of the Assumption in Pekařov, classicist building from 1826
• Remains of the festivals Pleče