Mikulovice (JesenÃk District)
Mikulovice ( German Niklas village) is a municipality in Okres Jeseník in the Czech Republic.
Geography
Mikulovice extends in Moravian-Silesian Region in the valley of the Bela, in the creek here the Lesní and open out the Olešnice.
East of the Elsnitz is the limit forest, south of the beech forest on the slopes of Rehberg (601 m) to the west below the Dickelsbergs (502 m ) of width Busch and north of the Kretschamberg (395 m).
On Dickelsberg deposits are to be found of migmatite.
History
The documentary was first mentioned in 1263 as Villa Nikolai. In the Middle Ages mining was carried out and washed in the river of gold.
1903 parts of the town were destroyed by a flood. Five years later, the survey was carried out to the market within Austria - Hungary. 1930 lived 3338 inhabitants in the place ( including in book mountain ), of which 3145 German. On May 17, 1939, the market town Niklasdorf 3317 and on May 22, 1947 1 624 inhabitants. Because of the Beneš decrees, the proportion of the German population, who had not spoken out against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis was expropriated in 1945 and sold.
Mayor
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages Mikulovice Kolnovice ( Kohldorf ) Mikulovice ( Niklas village) and Široký Brod ( width ford ) and the local documents Bukovec (Book Mountain ), Terezin (Theresienstadt field) and Vysutá ( Renner field).
Traffic
In Mikulovice the streets of Jesenik Głuchołazy and Vidnava after Zlaté Hory cross. The village lies on the railway line opened in 1896 Hanušovice - Głuchołazy and the branch line Mikulovice - Zlaté Hory.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Franz Xaver Groeger (1874-1932), local historian
- Franz Peschel (1889-1968), local historian and writer
- Günther Sewald (1905-1949), politician
- Anton Leischner (1908-2010), a neurologist, a linguist
- Kimminich Otto (1932-1997), German constitutional and international law