Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem

Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem ( German Kunz village, also large Kuntschitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located four kilometers east of FRENŠTÁT pod Radhoštěm and belongs to Okres Frýdek- Místek.

Geography

Kunčice is located at the foot of Ondřejník - ridge north of the Moravian- Silesian Beskydy Mountains in the Valley of Tichávka. To the east rises the Skalka (964 m ), in the southeast of Smrk Mala Stolová is ( 1276 m), south ( 1009 m), Velka Stolová ( 1049m ), Kněhyně ( 1256 m) and Tanečnice ( 1084 m ) and in the south west the Radhosť ( 1129 m).

Neighboring towns are Kozlovice in the north, Pstruží in the northeast, Čeladná in the east, Pod Stolovou the southeast, Na Bystrém and Pusteven in the south, Trojanovice, Planiska and Liščí Mlýn in the southwest, FRENŠTÁT pod Radhoštěm in the west and Ticha in the northwest.

History

The Waldhufendorf Kunz village was built according to old traditions at the beginning of the 14th century, during the tenure of the Olomouc Bishop Theodoric of Neuhaus. Founder of the village was standing in the Episcopal service at the castle high forest officials Kunz with his people. After his locator the new settlement was named Kunz village or in Czech Kunčice. Kunz was rewarded with five hooves country to its free use and was determined to Vogt. Until the expiry of the Kunz family in 1499 she practiced for over 200 years from the Office of the bailiff in Kunz Village / Kunčice. At about the beginning of the 15th century a glassworks was built in Kunčice. 1587 sold Bishop Stanislaus Pavlovský of Pavlovitz the hut in Hutarstvi to the glassmakers Dominik Schurer. This major glassmaker delivered up to the royal court in Prague and in 1592 collected by Rudolf II as Schurer Dominik von Waldheim to the peerage. Johann Amos Comenius drew the glassworks of Kunz village 1621 on his map of the Margraviate of Moravia. Over the years, the name of the village changed to distinguish it from the same places in Hrubé Kunčice. 1676 Michael Michna bought the glassworks of the Schurer of Waldheim. This they sold 1690 to Jan Konvička, whose family she had proven to 1797.

1695, the inhabitants of Hrubé Kunčice together with the neighboring villages involved because of the heavy burdens in an uprising against the episcopal rule Hochwald. In 1800, the glassworks was one, probably due to the slump in sales as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.

In the first half of the 19th century the mining began on iron ore, which was delivered to the Archbishop's iron works in Friedland and Čeladná. The heyday of the iron industry was in 1860, 1896 it was set. The last slot on the Humbark was turned over after 1914.

1848, the local name of Hrubé Kunčice was changed in Velké Kunčice / Great Kuntschitz. After the abolition of patrimonial Velké Kunčice formed in 1850 a municipality in the district Mistek. At the end of the 19th century, the village became a popular summer resort of the wealthy society of the Ostrava coal mining area. 1899 opened Vincenç and Anna Dočkal from Ostrava at the southern foot of the Skalka on the municipal boundary to Čeladná a hotel with an attached bathroom and parking. After the doctor from Marianske Hory January May had acquired the hotel as well as the settlement Pod Skalkou in 1902, he established the hotel as a spa and sanatorium for miners from Ostrava. After the end of the 19th century, an extension of the name in Velké Kunčice pod Radhoštěm was done, it came in 1924, a further amendment of the borough's name in Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem / Kunz village. After the Second World War Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem was assigned to the Okres FRENŠTÁT pod Radhoštěm and came in 1961 after the dissolution of the Okres Frýdek- Místek. 1952, the swimming was closed down in Lázně Skalka and the bathroom converted into a branch of the district hospital. The former spa today acts as a rehabilitation center of Beskydy. Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem is a resort today.

Community structure

For the community Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem no districts are reported. To Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem include the settlements Maratův Kopec, Na Pekliskách, Pod Pod Ondřejníkem Stolovou I and I.

Attractions

• Wooden Church of St. Prokop and Barbara, the Russian church called God's house is since 1931 in the upper part of Kunčice.
• Villa Sarka, the timbered building near the Russian chapel was built in 1903 according to plans by Dusan Jurkovic for the deputies Fajfrlík.
• Villa Karolina, in the years 1903-1904 established the Builder Šmíd next to the Sarka two villas for Jan Jaterka. Her style was modeled on the refuges created by Jurkovic in Pusteven. 1911 Ferdinand acquired Borák one of the villas and named it Helen. 1926 bought by the Director General of Vítkovicer coal plants, Eduard Šebela, the other villa and let them create a park with a pond and cascades. In the 1960s, the Šebela villa for rest home of the power plant Karolina was. After Privatiesierung she now serves as a board.
• Rotunda, the building on the square " in the forest " in 1928 to the Secretary of Vitkovicer coal plants, Rudolf Zankl, built. The interior dates from the 18th century. Today the building serves as a residence.
• Chapel of the Virgin Mary on the Gvardůvky, built 1888-1890
• Waldhaus Glassner, the villa was built in 1902 for the Oberbaurat Glassner
• Cast Iron Cross in the park at the restaurant Skalka, on the sandstone base was located since 1666 established by Jiří Michna statue. After the figure was overthrown in 1773 by a storm from the base, the family Michna let them build back in 1777. 1847 and 1866 were carried donor funded repairs. It is unknown at what time probably originating from the Archbishop's iron works of Friedland Gußkreuz was applied.
• Gallery Karel Svolinský, the first school in the Czech Republic Gallery was opened in 1992 and is located in the building of the primary school.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Antonín Pustka (1877-1960), folk song collector