Moravský Beroun
Moravian Beroun ( German Bear ) is a town of 3,306 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is 570 m above sea level in the Lower dies in Moravia and part of the Okres Olomouc. The town lies in a valley at the confluence of Čabová ( Sommeraubach ) in the Důlní Potok ( Stollenbach ).
History
The local company was established before 1200. Settlers possibly came from Franconia (see place names such as yard or Nuremberg) or were miners from the mining regions of Westphalia, for example, the Sauerland.
In a document of King Premysl Otakar I. there are indications that the residents of Bear digging for iron ore and sandstone. Geographical names indicate that smelting and processing in hammer mills were made on site. The Bärner sandstone quarries are said to have supplied the sandstone for Mauritz church in Olomouc. The Bärner sandstone was also used for the production of millstones. Even in recent times, semi-finished or broken millstones were found in the sand quarries.
Later followed flax and weaving as well as in the second half of the 19th century textile industry. 1898 took the narrow gauge railway Bear Andersdorf farm on the holding, it was decommissioned in 1933. The former county seat until 1946 had large proportions of German-speaking inhabitants, who were dispossessed and displaced as a result of Beneš-Dekrete1945/1946. On 1 December 1930, the city of Bears in 2973, on May 17, 1939 and 2998 on May 22, 1947 1 957 inhabitants.
Since 1 January 2005, the city belongs to the Okres Olomouc, previously it was part of the Okres Bruntál.
Policy
Community structure
The town of Beroun the Moravian districts Čabová ( Brocker village), Nové Valteřice include ( New Walter village, formerly My Dörfel ) Ondrášov ( Andersdorf ) and Sedm Dvoru ( Siebenhöfen ).
Twinning
- Bieruń, Poland
- Gundelfingen, Germany
- Meung -sur -Loire, France
- Ostroh, Ukraine
- Disc, Germany
Coat of arms
Blazon: " Azure, on a green sign foot border black bear, accompanied by an eight-pointed gold star above, beseitet front of a black pair of pliers and behind by a left -turned black hammer with handle in natural colors. "
Coat Explanation: The bear is the German place names Bear again, pliers and hammer stand for iron smelting and mining, the star of belonging to the reign of the von Sternberg (Coat of Arms: " Azure, an eight-pointed golden star ").
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ernst Späth, chemists