Varnsdorf

Varnsdorf ( German warning village ) is a town with 15,800 inhabitants in the north of the Czech Republic in the district of Decin, Usti nad Labem Region. It is situated in 350 m asl in the Bohemian Netherlands at the Mandau between Seifhennersdorf and Grossschönau. The city can also be associated with swallowing Auer tip. Varnsdorf bordered to the north, south and east of Saxony and is located on the railway line Zittau - Grossschönau - Seifhennersdorf - Eibau and has two border crossings in the Saxon country town Seifhennersdorf ( toll road ) and Großschönau ( Main Street) and another tourist passing by Seifhennersdorf ( Warnsdorfer Str. ).

  • 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 4.2 Persons who are associated with the place

History

The village warning village is first mentioned in 1352. 1642, the town was plundered by the Swedes in 1778 and 1866 it made ​​them the Prussians after.

In the 18th century the weaving developed in warning the village, as well as in the neighboring Upper Lusatia. There came other places in the area:

In 1849, these villages with Old warning village united to the largest village of the kk Monarchy, with 13,000 inhabitants. He lay in the judicial district warning village and was from 1850 the seat of the district court and, from 1908, the District Commission. In 1868, the place that was now grown to 15,000 inhabitants and was known as Little Manchester, a city charter. 1914 lived in the village warning about 30,000 inhabitants. The best-known companies were Kunert- stocking works. By the Edict of Toleration of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II from 1781 warning village was, next to the town of Liberec center of the Old Catholic Church in Bohemia. Today it is the co-cathedral of the Czech Old Catholic Church.

After the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the subsequent inflation of the Currency (1923 ) and by the world economic crisis of 1929-1932 occurred in the village warning to high unemployment and poverty. The smuggling over the border to Saxony was for many residents to livelihood. Warning village developed before World War 2 a stronghold Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten Party. As Henlein in 1938 spoke in warning village, came 12,000 listeners and martial law was proclaimed. 1939 lived in the town of 21,000 inhabitants. On May 22, 1947 was 15,661 inhabitants. The German Bohemian population in 1945 and largely expropriated and distributed in the following years due to the Beneš decrees. Studánka and Světliny 1.díl were incorporated in 1980.

Today in Varnsdorf home to a large population of Roma, their share is growing compared to the rest of the population. Here, there were repeated conflicts.

Community structure

The city Varnsdorf consists of the districts Studánka ( Schönborn ), Světliny 1.díl ( light Hain - Schönborner share ) and Varnsdorf ( Warnsdorf ). Basic settlement units are Gerhus, Little Border Buk ( In the limit beech), Pěnkavčí vrch ( Finke village), Pod Hrádkem, Pod nádražím, Pod Špičákem, Střed I Střed II, Střed III, Studánka Světliny, Špičák, U cihelny, U divadla, U hranic, U hřbitova, U kostela bez věže, koupaliště U, U lomu, Mandavy U, U Mělníka, U nemocnice, U Podluzi ( Schneckendorf ), U polikliniky, underground rocks and Varnsdorf - u kostela.

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Studánka u Rumburku and Varnsdorf.

Culture and sights

Structures

Varnsdorf has a number of cultural monuments. In 1774 the market newly built church of St. Peter and Paul was on 29 June 1830, the first complete performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. 1872 here the first Old Catholic congregation Austria -Hungary was formed.

A curiosity is the Borromeo Church in 1911; they do is better known as the church without a tower, since the tower had to be abandoned for lack of funds. On the 429 -meter high castle hill ( Hradek ) on the border with Seifhennersdorf the architect Möller built a luxurious tourist restaurant in 1904. This striking object on the local mountain village warning and Seifhennersdorf fell after 1945 more and more. In recent years, carried out by a cross-border patrons of the restoration of decayed into ruin building that could be made ​​already to a great extent again.

  • Evangelical Church Varnsdorf
  • Old Catholic Church Varnsdorf

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Maximilian Rudolf von Schleinitz (1606-1675), Bishop of Leitmeritz
  • Joseph Schubert (1757-1837), violinist, violist and composer
  • Julius Dörfel (1834-1901), architect
  • Heinrich Brandler (1881-1968), communist politician
  • Erich Czech (1890-1966), journalist
  • Friedrich Burger (1899-1972), politician ( NSDAP) and SA- Standartenführer
  • Julius Kunert (1900-1993), textile industrialist
  • Pleticha Heinrich (1924-2010), writer
  • Giselbert Hoke (* 1927), artist
  • Peter H. Feist ( born 1928 ), art historian
  • Leoš Sucharipa (1932-2005), actor, translator, and theater theorist
  • Winfried Pilz ( born 1940 ), Catholic priest and author of songs
  • Ursula Staack ( born 1943 ), actress, chanteuse and comedienne
  • Evelyn Opela ( born 1945 ), actress
  • January Beneš ( b. 1982 ), football player

Those associated with the location of

  • Ambros Opitz (1846-1907), theologian and publisher, lived and died here
  • Bjarnat Krawc (1861-1948) Sorbian composer and conductor, lived from 1945 in Varnsdorf.

Traffic

The Varnsdorf railway station is on the railway line Mittelherwigsdorf - Varnsdorf - Eibau and the railway line Rybniště - Varnsdorf. Furthermore, there are at this railway line, the breakpoint Varnsdorf Staré nádrazí and the currently under construction or in breakpoint Varnsdorf Pivovar Kocour.

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