Žulová
Žulová ( German Peace Mountain ) is a town with 1,335 inhabitants in Okres Jeseník in the Czech Republic. The village is characterized by the St. Joseph's Church, which serves the keep of the old castle Frýdberk as a church tower.
History
The Friedberg castle was built in 1290 by Hanß of Wustehube. 1348 acquired the Breslau Bishop Preczlaw Pogarell of the castle. Since 1358, the resulting under the castle hill settlement was referred to as town. 1428 occupied the Hussites peace mountain. During the Thirty Years War in 1639 Swedish and Polish troops took the castle. 1642 fell Sweden again in peace mountain and ransacked the city. 1704, the chapel was restored and founded a brewery. On January 12, 1793, the place in Austrian Silesia was officially awarded city rights. 1805 was the coadjutor of the Diocese of Breslau Joseph Christian Fürst zu Hohenlohe- Bartenstein the city's dilapidated castle to build a church. Between 1809 and 1810, on Castle Hill, the St. Joseph church built and converted the old donjon to the church tower. 1832 died 50 inhabitants of cholera.
Nationally known peace mountain was the Friedeberger granite quarried in its environment. The granite quarries to peace Mountain is geologically divided into three kinds: In the so-called edge granite, in which the alkali feldspars predominate, in the main granite that in about half of alkali field and Plagioklasfeldspäten and in the stone mountain granite, which consists mainly of Kalknatronfeldspäten. The latter occurrence is sufficient to present-day Poland.
1840 were the first three workshops of the master stonemason stonemason Nice Thienel and left in operation. 1878, the company forester in peace the mountain Kratzelsteinbruch in a big way for obtaining the Friedeberger granite on and shortly after the quarry at Hutberg for obtaining the Hutbergdiorits. Already in 1886, to form the necessary professionals a state college for the stone working, founded a stone mason school for granite processing. The corresponding boarding school was located in the first years in Cerna Voda ( black water). In the same year also a State College for the stone processing, for marble, in Supíkovice ( Saubsdorf ) was founded. Thus, in the region of a West Silesian Centre for stone processing was developed. 1882, the first patch on the fire Koppe was prepared, which provided for additional sales of granite and an economic boom. In 1896, the railway from low Lindewiese Angsleah after the operation and peace in the mountain station was inaugurated. Thus, a prerequisite for export of stone products of the developing stone industry was created, which was for the entire region of great economic importance. The company Hermann Franke Prießnitz was the oldest stone mason company headquartered in Mountain Peace and employed in several stone works, in other places, as well as quarries in peace mountain approximately 500 employees. The company Albert Forster, H. Kulka, Granitwerke F. Franke & brothers and Joseph Palous had branch operations in peace mountain. The Czech firm Novak & Jasef maintained an office and a branch operation in peace mountain and the Czech company Petr Holec and Fürsterzbischöfliche Kameraldirektion Jauernig had quarries near town.
In relation to Cerna Voda ( black water) Friedeberg harbored less stone industry, but the place had a mono structure and was economically dependent on the granite industry.
By June 1948, the predominantly German population was expelled on Setzdorf and Niklas village and renamed the place in Žulová, he lost the municipal law. Its new inhabitants were Slovaks from the annexed by the Soviet Union the eastern part of Slovakia and Greek civil war refugees. In 1949 the nationalization of episcopal Goods Administration. During the communist regime fell, large parts of the city center and were demolished.
The city of peace Berg had on December 1, 1930 1478 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 1614 and 22 May 1947 were 892 residents. Between 1949 and 1990 the village was incorporated Skorošice with the district Nýznerov after Žulová. From 1976 to 2001 Kobylá nad Vidnavkou belonged to Žulová. Both are now again independent municipalities. On 10 October 2006 Žulová regained its municipal rights.
Partner community
- Zemianske Kostoľany, Slovakia
Community structure
The municipality Žulová the district Tomíkovice ( Domsdorf ) and the residential places Žlíbek heard ( Schlippengrund ) and Starosta ( worry).