Karle

Karle ( German Karlsbrunn ) is a municipality with 371 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is located eight kilometers west of Svitavy at the Loučná and belongs to the Okres Svitavy on.

Geography

The place is located in the Bohemian- Moravian Highlands in 492 m asl Neighboring towns are Trstěnice in the north, and Javorník Svitavy in the east, Ostry Kámen and Vendolí in the south and Květná and Chmelík in the West.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1336 and was owned by Conrad of Karlsbrunn. According to an old legend, the village was originally called Langendorf and Charles IV is said to have drunk here from a source.

Another legend revolves around the old castle. Then said to have been attacked in 1374 by the robber barons resident at the castle a Swedish funeral procession for the Saint Bridget. Over the centuries, the castle was known of the little concrete, removed gradually, so that apart from a mound no longer get it.

Karlsbrunn belonged to the Premonstratensian Litomyšl. 1430 was the Gothic St. Bartholomew's Church, which was gepfarrt to Blumenau and then from 1677 by Attersee.

1930 lived in the village in Schönhengstgau including local part of the Moravian Rausdorf 775 predominantly German population. Since 1949 the area has been acknowledged Okres Svitavy.

Community structure

To the municipality of the district of Karle Ostry Kámen heard ( Moravian versions stone).