Andelská Hora (Bruntál District)
Encyclopedia
Andělská Hora, aka Andělská Hora ve Slezsku is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region
of the Czech Republic
. It is located 8 km northwest of Bruntál
and has around 370 inhabitants.
Village of Pustá Rudná (Lauterseifen) is administrative part of Andělská Hora.
. After the Thirty Years' War
the town was given to the Order of Teutonic Knights
who owned the town until 1639.
According to the Austrian
census of 1910 the village had 1,789 inhabitants, 1,773 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 1,767 (99.7%) were German-speaking. Most populous religious group were Roman Catholics with 1,761 (98.4%).
Moravian-Silesian Region
Moravian-Silesian Region , or Moravo-Silesian Region, is one of 14 administrative Regions of the Czech Republic, until May 2001 it was formerly called the Ostrava Region . The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the...
of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
. It is located 8 km northwest of Bruntál
Bruntál
Bruntál is a town located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region, in Czech Silesia. A suitable position in the middle of the Jeseníky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the town...
and has around 370 inhabitants.
Village of Pustá Rudná (Lauterseifen) is administrative part of Andělská Hora.
History
The village was founded in 1540, in 1553 it was registered as mining city and furnished (in 1556) with all necessary permissions for mining by Johann the Elder von Würben from FreudenthalBruntál
Bruntál is a town located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region, in Czech Silesia. A suitable position in the middle of the Jeseníky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the town...
. After the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
the town was given to the Order of Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...
who owned the town until 1639.
According to the Austrian
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
census of 1910 the village had 1,789 inhabitants, 1,773 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 1,767 (99.7%) were German-speaking. Most populous religious group were Roman Catholics with 1,761 (98.4%).
Sights
- Church of "Birth of Virgin Mary" from 1672, rebuilt after a fire in 1734
- Statue of the John of NepomukJohn of NepomukJohn of Nepomuk is a national saint of the Czech Republic, who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional...
(1724) - Empire cross out of sandstone at the market place (1815)
- Annaberg, mercy chapel (1767)
Personalities
- Josef Bartsch, a wood carver
- E. S. EngelsbergE. S. EngelsbergE. S. Engelsberg E. S. Engelsberg E. S. Engelsberg (23 January 1825, Engelsberg (now Andělská Hora (ve Slezsku), in the Bruntál District), Austrian Silesia - 27 May 1879, Deutsch Jaßnik (Jeseník nad Odrou) was a Bohemian (Silesia-born) Austrian composer....
(1825–1879), a composer (pseudonym of Eduard Schön) - Moritz JursitzkyMoritz JursitzkyMoritz Jursitzky was an Austrian/Silesian writer.Born as a son of a weaver master craftsman, Moritz Jursitzky worked as well as a weaver for a long time....
, a writer - Albert Schindler, a BiedermeierBiedermeierIn Central Europe, the Biedermeier era refers to the middle-class sensibilities of the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions...
painter and engraver