Nový Hrozenkov

Nový Hrozenkov ( German New Hrosenkau, 1939-1945 New grape village ) is a market town in the Moravian Wallachia in the Czech Republic. It is located 15 kilometers east of Vsetín and belongs to Okres Vsetín.

Geography

Nový Hrozenkov located at the southern foot of the Vsetínské Hills at the transition to the Javorníky in the nature park PLA Beskydy. The town extends on the right side of the Vsetínská Bečva at the confluence of the streams Brodská, Vranča and Babinek. To the north rise the Papradný (750 m), Přední Kyčera ( 762 m) and Humenec (705 m), in the northeast of Barani ( 688 m), southeast of the Bezniková (720 m) and Valečková Kyčera ( 827 m), in the south of the Planinska Kyčera ( 767 m), Kotlina (805 m), Kyčera nad Boroskou (808 m) and Válkův Grúň ( 667 m), southwest of the Valoviska (616 m ) in the west of Palúch ( 691 m ) and northwest of the Babinek ( 752 m). By Nový Hrozenkov leads the railway line Vsetín - Velké Karlovice. To the east of the town is the dam Karolinka. The territory of the village extends south to the Slovakian border.

Neighboring towns are Brodské in the north, Kobylská, Planisko and Karol Inca in the northeast, Na Kani in the east, Na Barine and Kyčerky the southeast, Velka Vranča and Dolni Vranča in the south, Břežitá, Čubov, Chromčáci and Halenkov the southwest, U Holců, Kršelky and Dinotice in the west and Babinek and Lušová in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village was in 1649, when the owner of the domain Vsetín, Mikuláš Pázmány that separated 41 Pasekarenwirtschaften in the upper valley of the Vsetínská Bečva of Hovězí and the new, named after his wife Rosina settlement Rosinka founded. 1652 acquired Georg Illésházy the rule. Over time, the place was called Rozinka, Rozinkow and Hrozenkov. The residents of the village were committed in the 17th and 18th centuries for defense services to the Hungarian border on the crest of Javorníky. In the years 1765, 1775, 1783 and 1785, there was Wallachian uprising against forced labor. Until the mid- 19th century, the village remained subservient always Vsetín.

After the abolition of patrimonial Nový Hrozenkov / New Hrosenkau formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Valašské Meziříčí. Residents living from livestock and Salaschenwirtschaft; agriculture was little bearable. 1857 a schoolhouse was built. Between 1861 and 1863 the glass producer Samuel Reich could create the glassworks Karoline hut in the eastern part of the village. In this part of the residents found employment. At the end of the 19th century, revenues from agriculture were so inadequate that emigrated from 1885 about 1000 people in the United States; most of them settled in Texas. From 1884 there have been attempts to regulate the disputed border between Moravia and Hungary in the Javorníky. 1908, the railway line Vsetín - Velké Karlovice was inaugurated. Since 1909, the village belonged to the district Vsetín. In 1948, Nový Hrozenkov was raised to Městys. A little later, this status was abolished after the takeover by the Communists, so Nový Hrozenkov was the last church, which received this status. With the beginning of 1949 Karolinina Huť was separated from Nový Hrozenkov and applicable to their own community and two years later to the city. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 was in the hallway Kasárna a border control between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 1996, the municipality performs a coat of arms. Effective 31 October 2006, Nový Hrozenkov received his status back as Městys.

Community structure

Districts are not designated for the Městys Nový Hrozenkov. To Nový Hrozenkov include the settlements Břežitá, Brodské, Čubov, Dolni Vranča, Kyčerky, Lušová, Malá Vranča, Ráztoka and Velka Vranča and numerous solitudes ( Paseken ).

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1789. The altar dates back to year 1690.
• Partisan monument and mass grave
• Memorial in the former studio of the painter and graphic artist Antonín Strnadel works Strnadels and Karel Langer
• Nature reserve Brodská, jungle at the foot of the Beskid ( 891 m ) north of the village in the Vsetínské Hills

Sons and daughters of the town

• Leon grains (1892-1972), Canadian businessman