Kvilda
Kvilda ( German Kvilda ) is a facility located in Okres Prachatice Šumava municipality with 170 inhabitants. It is located in Südböhmener circle about 80 km from its capital České Budějovice away.
Geography
Kvilda located 7 km east of the border with Bavaria in Finsterau / Bučina. The local border crossing, which may not be traveled by motor vehicles, is very popular with tourists both in summer and in winter. The source of the Warm Vltava, one of the three headwaters of the Vltava River, is easily accessible from here (6 km forest walk ). The nearest border crossing for motor vehicles is Philippsreut on the B 12 or I / 4 ( Freyung - Strakonice ), about 22 km south-east. 5 km north of Kvilda lies the community Horská Kvilda.
History
Kvilda is located on the Gold Trail, where it was founded in the late 15th century. Like so many towns in the area had also Kvilda since 1794 a glass factory. 1765, the Catholic parish church of St. Stephen was built, which in 1889 a major fire fell victim. After this disaster Kvilda and his church were ( then the neo-gothic style ) built to 1894 again. Beginning of the 19th century originated in the place two plants that were known far beyond the borders of the Bohemian Forest out soon. 1820 Peter Strunz began because of the extraordinary altitude of the area to produce resonant wood for musical instruments and soon became a worldwide supplier for this type of specialty wood and its processing products. The company Strunz settled after the expulsion of 1946 in the Lower Bavarian Pocking. Also at the beginning of the 19th century founded the Kočevje originating in the Krain Johann spoiler a manufactory for glass painting in Aussergefild. She produced especially glass paintings with religious motives. After 1884, behind glass manufactory of Gabriel Schuster was continued. 1945/46, the German inhabitants were expelled from their homes and confiscated without compensation.
Attractions
Kvilda is the first village on the upper reaches of the Warm Vltava. The village is also an issue in the symphonic poem Vltava from the cycle My Country of the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana ( 1824-1884 ). In a melody, the dancing elves in the Moldauauen and with dance music ( polka ) described a celebration of the people, the peasant wedding. Kvilda has tourist and tourist center of the Czech Šumava Biosphere Reserve.
Behind the Catholic Church of St. Stephan are the remains of the cemetery, which has been virtually eliminated in the early 1980s. After the church had fallen into the post-war period, it was renovated after the turn of 1994 to 1999 with the help of German donations. In the Bavarian village of Mauth, about 10 km from Kvilda, there are in the local town hall, a small museum, which was established before 1989 by the community of former Außergefilder. The Mauth directed every two years from a home meetings of the former Außergefilder that are scattered throughout the federal territory, but mainly live in space Schwandorf and Regensburg.
The Kvilda has a similar history museum set up in the town hall, reminiscent as the museum rooms in Mauth mainly to the tradition of the place as a stronghold of reverse glass painting, the production of resonant wood for musical instruments and of skiing and tourism.
In 2001, put the well-known Prague entrepreneur and former top athlete Václav Vitovec in Kvilda the foundation for a planned museum he of the Iron Curtain, which is reminiscent of the of the to 1989 by the Communist regimes of the Czech Republic and the Soviet Union hermetically sealed border to West Europe. Construction of the museum did not come until 2006, however, about the groundbreaking addition.
From Kvilda of the way across the Golden Path leads to Bavaria. In 1990, a pedestrian crossing was opened between Kvilda and the Bavarian town of Finsterau. There exists also a border crossing, which can be used by cyclists, pedestrians. It is connected by bus services in both countries.
Local structure
To Kvilda include the districts Bučina ( Buchenwald), Františkov ( Franzensthal ) Hrabeci Huť (Graf Hütte ) and Vydří Most ( Wiederbruck ) and the waste places Lesní Chalupy ( Waldhauser ) Hamerské Domky (Hammer houses) and Vilémov ( William Forest).