(
Polish: ) is a village in
Frýdek-Místek District,
Moravian-Silesian Region,
Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of
Třinec in 1980.
Tyrka
The Tyra (also called Tyrka) is a stream in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Olza (river), Olza River. It flows through Třinec in the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is long.
Name
The stream was originally officially named Tyrka (diminut ...
flows through the village. It has a population of 445 (1 January 2008) and lies in the historical region of
Cieszyn Silesia.
The name of the village is of topographic origins derived from an older name of the local river
Tyrka
The Tyra (also called Tyrka) is a stream in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Olza (river), Olza River. It flows through Třinec in the Moravian-Silesian Region. It is long.
Name
The stream was originally officially named Tyrka (diminut ...
(also known as Tyra).
History
The village was first mentioned in 1577 in
urbarium which states that it had only one citizen, so the village was in the very early process of formation. Originally it was part of the village
Oldřichovice (in 1657 described as ''der Oldrzychowitzer dielniczen andern seyten biß zu dem Waßer Tyra gelegen'') but grew to become an independent village.
It belonged then to the
Duchy of Teschen, a
fee of the
Kingdom of Bohemia and a part of the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
.
After
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl ...
a modern
municipal division was introduced in the re-established
Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the
political district of
Teschen and the
legal district of
Jablunkau. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 506 in 1880 to 510 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (dropping from 97.8% in 1880 to 94.2% in 1910) accompanied by German-speaking (at most 27 or 5.4% in 1910) and Czech-speaking people (at most 2 in 1910). In terms of religion in 1910 the majority were
Protestants
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
(91.3%), followed by
Roman Catholics
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
(39 or 7.7%) and
Jews (6 or 1%). The village was also traditionally inhabited by
Cieszyn Vlachs
The Cieszyn Vlachs ( pl, Wałasi cieszyńscy, cs, Těšínští Valaši) are a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów, one of the four major ethnographic groups in Cieszyn Silesia, t ...
, speaking
Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
After
World War I, fall of
Austria-Hungary,
Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of
Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of
Czechoslovakia. Following the
Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the
Zaolzie region it was annexed by
Poland, administratively adjoined to
Cieszyn County
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Cieszyn County ( pl, powiat cieszyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech and Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result o ...
of
Silesian Voivodeship.
It was then annexed by
Nazi Germany at the beginning of
World War II. After the war it was restored to
Czechoslovakia.
See also
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Polish minority in the Czech Republic
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Zaolzie
Footnotes
References
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Třinec
Villages in Frýdek-Místek District
Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic