Žďárky

Žďárky ( German small fire ) is a municipality with 558 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers southeast of Hronov in 397 m asl on the border of Poland and a member of the Okres Náchod.

Geography

The village is situated on the western slopes of Table Mountains in the valley of the river Brlenka just East of Vysoká Srbská and flows south BRNE in the Czermnica ( Czech heritage Neyer Bach).

Neighboring towns are in southwestern Velké Poříčí in the West Hronov, in the north Zlíčko and Závrchy as well as on the Polish side in the east and southeast Pstrążna Czermna.

History

Owned by the rule Náchod Žďárky was first mentioned in documents in 1415. It was in the old days on the road from Nachod about Schlaney and Politz to Braunau, since the current connection to the right of Mettau did not exist. It was first created after 1763 were part of the previous path left the Mettau now beyond the Prussian border by taking possession of the county of Glatz by Prussia. This came in as a secluded Žďárky boundary layer. The new boundaries also had the consequence that Žďárky that belonged in Tscherbeney since ancient times church to the parish of St. Bartholomew, 1780 umgepfarrt to the parish Hronov.

1794 lived in Žďárky 394 inhabitants. A few years later prompted the new owner of the domain Nachod, Duke Peter von Biron, the establishment of a village school. He also introduced concessions in forced labor. 1848, the lordship was dissolved.

During the time of mining Žďárky had about 1000 inhabitants. Among them were the ancestors of Náchod textile industrialist Joseph and Cyril Bartoňs.

After the Second World War, the border was closed in 1945 for the now Polish Pstrążna and open to the Schengen area in 2007 again only in the context of the accession of both countries.

Mining

Until the 18th century the inhabitants earned their living primarily as a home weavers, small farmers or day laborers. This changed when, on Heideberg ( Borek ) in the valley of the brook Straußeneyer ( Strouženský Potok, poln Pstrążnik ) near Bühlfeld ( Závrchy ) a coal deposit was discovered. The degradation was carried out in the New Barbara Pit and the Josef- pit. The coal was used among other things to burn the bricks that were needed in the construction of the fortress Josefstadt.

According to previous studies of Hronower layer master George Michael Franke in 1805 on of the reorganized Prussian border the opening of the Wilhelmina - pit, whose namesake owned a mansion Nachod, Wilhelmine von Sagan was. 1834 Wilhelminen pit was connected with the mines Rosalie and Hurka, which lay on the Prussian side in Straußeney. 1836 mining law for ten years was to the then Hronower pastor and later dean of Nachod, Josef Regner leased, but could not place a financial success. This period of history pit processed vividly the writer Alois Jirásek in Volume 3 ( Osetek ) of his novel "U nás " in which the sprinkler is called Havlovicky. Since Jiráskův relatives and other witnesses interviewed around his research, is likely to be authentic its representation.

1846, the Wilhelmine mine was shut down for unknown reasons and then sold because it participated Náchod rule on the more profitable mines at Falk Mountains. The operation of the Wilhelmine mine While there was always after frequent changes of ownership, but remained unprofitable, so that the operation was discontinued in 1904. From 1907 to 1922 coal was mined again. On February 22, 1925, the winding tower was turned over. Also in Straußeney the coal industry had been set in 1929.

Personalities

• Josef Bartoňs - Dobenín (1838-1920), textile industrialist