Město Albrechtice

Město Albrechtice ( German Olbersdorf ) is a city on the Goldoppa ( Opavice ) with around 3,600 inhabitants in Moravian-Silesian Region, the Czech Okres Bruntál on the border with Poland.

Geography

The city lies 350 meters above sea level. M. Olbersdorfer Valley ( Albrechtická kotlina ) of the Zuck Manteler highlands ( Zlatohorská Highlands, Oppagebirge ) on both sides of the Goldoppa, which forms the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, below the city. Neighboring towns are in the north Rudíkovy, northeast Biskupice, in the southeast Opavice and the Polish Opawica, in the south and in the west Žáry and Burkvíz Hynčice. The land area is 6,527 ha

History

The place Albirchtisdorf was mentioned in a treaty of partition of the Duchy of Opava in 1377 for the first time. 1390 was Jobst of Moravia, landlord of the Olbersdorf, from 1420 followed the Knights of Stosch and 1492, the Makrota. The old fortress was destroyed in 1474 by the troops of Matthias Corvinus. 1492, Adolf Makrota Olbersdorf by Vladislav II rise to the city and equipped with various privileges. 1503 acquired the lords of the in-fill property that has been confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain. 1623 received the Jesuits in Neisse Olbersdorf. 1716 brought Charles VI. Olbersdorf into a free reign.

After the cession of Silesia to Prussia in 1742, the city remained in Austrian Silesia. The resulting immediately in front of the city limits disabled their further development greatly. 1745 gave the Jesuits Neisser Olbersdorf to the Jesuits in Opava; 1773 went their goods over to the Imperial - Court Chamber.

1813 flooded a heavy flood of Goldoppa the city so that their inhabitants fled to the higher neighboring villages Burgwiese and Oberschaar. In 1824 Karl Traugott Skrbenský of Hřiště on Hoschialkowitz new landlord, who a year later resold the property to the Troppauer merchants Vincenz wedge and Vincenz Tlachov. These built in 1837 in the city of plate mill, which became the largest employer in the region. In the 1890s, the transfer of the work by, or mountain where it went up in the United ironworks and wire works carried out. As a result of the loss of jobs, the population decreased by 15 percent. The construction of the railway from Jägerndorf to Bad Ziegenhals, received a railway station for the Olbersdorf did not lead to industrial growth of the city. After the Second World War, the predominantly German -speaking population was expelled.

Community structure

To town Město Albrechtice include the districts Burkvíz ( " castle meadow " ), Česká Ves ( " Neudörfel " ), Dlouhá Voda ( " long water"), Hynčice ( " Heinz village" ), Linhartovy ( " Geppersdorf " ), Opavice ( " Tropplowitz " ), Piskořov ( " Peischdorf " ), Valštejn ( "Wallenstein" ) and Žáry ( " Oberschaar ") and the hamlet Biskupice ( " Bischofswalde " ), LAC ( " dwarf " ), Maly Valštejn ("small Wallenstein" ), Velky Valštejn ( " Great Wallenstein" ) and Ztracená Voda ( "Lost water").

Twinning

  • Biała, Poland
  • Głubczyce, Poland
  • Komprachcice, Poland
  • Lubrza, Poland
  • Precenicco, Italy
  • Prudnik, Poland

Mayor of Olbersdorf

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Leopold von Sedlnitzky (1787-1871), Prince-Bishop of Breslau, who was born in Geppersdorf
  • Albert Adam (1824-1894), painter, born in Heinzendorf
  • Leo Schubert (1885-1968), Sudeten Mayor and MP
  • Alois Fietz (1890-1968), German Archeobotaniker
  • František Gel (1901-1972), Swedish journalist
  • Dietfried Kromer (1938-2006), German classical scholar
  • Miloslav Gajdoš ( b. 1948 ), bassist, music educator and composer
  • Loukas Vyntra ( born 1981 ), Greek footballer
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