Horní Město (german: Bergstadt) is a municipality and village in
Bruntál District
Bruntál District ( cs, okres Bruntál) is a district (''okres'') within Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is Bruntál, but the largest town is Krnov. Part of the district belongs to Moravia, while another part belongs to ...
in the
Moravian-Silesian Region
The Moravian-Silesian Region ( cs, Moravskoslezský kraj; pl, Kraj morawsko-śląski; sk, Moravsko-sliezsky kraj) is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region ( cs, Ostravsk ...
of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 800 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Dobřečov, Rešov, Skály and Stříbrné Hory are administrative parts of Horní Město.
Etymology
The original German name ''Bergstadt'' means "mountain town". The Czech name was derived from the German name and means literally "mining town".
Geography
Horní Město lies about southwest of
Bruntál and about north of
Olomouc
Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019).
Located on th ...
. The municipality is located on the border between the
Nízký Jeseník
Nízký Jeseník (german: Niederes Gesenke, pl, Niski Jesionik) is a flat highland and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the east of the country in the Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian regions. Nízký Jeseník is ...
and
Hrubý Jeseník mountain ranges. The Huntava Stream flows through the municipality.
History
The first written mention of Horní Město is from 1398, when a settlement called Hankštejn/Hangstein was located here.
Silver mining
Silver mining is the extraction of silver from minerals, starting with mining. Because silver is often found in intimate combination with other metals, its extraction requires elaborate technologies. In 2008, ca.25,900 metric tons were consumed ...
in the area was first documented in 1402, later gold and non-ferrous metals were also mined. In 1580, a free imperial town was founded by Emperor
Rudolf II
Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the Hou ...
and was named ''Bergstadt - Hangstein''. Later the second part of the name was dropped.
From 1938 to 1945 it was annexed by
Nazi Germany
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and administered as a part of
Reichsgau Sudetenland
The Reichsgau Sudetenland was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It comprised the northern part of the ''Sudetenland'' territory, which was annexed from Czechoslovakia according to the 30 September 1938 Munich Agreement. ...
. After the war,
the German population was
expelled.
In the middle of the 20th century, the last gold was mined and only non-ferrous metals remained. Their mining ended in 1970.
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Sights
The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene was built in 1611. It is decorated by valuable paintings from 1690.[
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References
External links
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Villages in Bruntál District
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