Višňová (german: Böhmisch Weigsdorf) is a municipality and village in

Liberec District Liberec District ( cs, okres Liberec) is the district (''okres'') within the Liberec Region of Czech Republic. As its name implies, its administrative center is the city of Liberec. Complete list of municipalities Bílá (Liberec District), Bílá ...

in the

Liberec Region Liberec Region ( cs, Liberecký kraj, german: Reichenberger Region, pl, Kraj liberecki) is an administrative unit (Czech: ''kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located in the northernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after i ...

of the

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. It has about 1,400 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

The villages of Andělka, Filipovka, Loučná, Minkovice, Poustka, Předlánce, Saň and Víska are administrative parts of Višňová.

Geography

Višňová is located about north of

Liberec Liberec (; german: Reichenberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants and it is the fifth-largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preser ...

, in a salient region of Frýdlant Hook on the border with Poland. It lies in the

Frýdlant Hills Frýdlant (; also known as Frýdlant v Čechách, german: Friedland in Böhmen) is a town in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,400 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law a ...

. The highest point is the hill Větrný at above sea level. The

Smědá The Smědá (, german: Wittig, pl, Witka) is a river of the Czech Republic and Poland. A right tributary of the Neisse River with a length of 51.9 km (5.9 km within Poland) and basin area 331 km2 (60 km2 in Poland).Černousy Černousy (name used since 1947, german: Tschernhausen, Czernhausen) is a village in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has 323 inhabitants as of 2020. Villages of Boleslav and Ves are administrative parts of Černousy. People * Karl ...

. There are two pedestrian border crossings to Poland: ''Višňovská / Wigancice Żytawskie'' and ''Andělka /

Lutogniewice Lutogniewice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogatynia, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech and German borders. It lies approximately north of Bogatynia, south of ...

''.

Sights

The main landmark of Višňová is the Church of the Sending of the Holy Spirit. The church was built in 1492 and until 1945, it served evangelical services. A new

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

was built in 1802–1803.

Notable people

Bedřich Fritta Bedřich Fritta (19 September 1906, Višňová – 8 November 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist. Before the war, Fritta worked as an illustrator and graphic designer in Prague under the pseudonym Fritz Taussig. In the ...

(1906–1944), graphic artist and caricaturist

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Visnova Villages in Liberec District