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: , german: Willmersdorf) is a village in Karviná District
Karviná District ( cs, okres Karviná, pl, powiat Karwina) is a district ('' okres'') within the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is the city of Karviná. It was created by 1960 reform of administrative di ...
, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Dolnà Lutyně
( pl, , german: Deutsch Leuten or ''Nieder Leuten'') is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Věřňovice is a ...
in 1975. It lies on the border with Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The Olza River flows through the village. Part of the river with its alluvium and surroundings is a unique environment with a fragile nature balance. In an otherwise industrialized and densely populated region, it is quite special, and hence is protected.
History
The village was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called ''Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( pl, Księga uposażeń biskupstwa wrocławskiego, ''Book of endowments of the Bishopric of Wrocław'') is a Latin manuscript catalog of documents compiled in the later 13th or in the early 14th centu ...
'' from around 1305 as ''item in Wernheri villa debent esse decem mansi'' in the section of ''Iste sunt ville circa Zary et Wladislaviam'' (Those are the villages near Żory and Wodzisław).
The next mention of the owner of ''Wernersdorf'' was in 1362. The name indicates ethnically German settlement. It was later polonised (''Wiernyerzowicze'' in 1447), but also regermanized as ''Wilmersdorf'' (1804), the name actually not connected to ''Wernersdorf''.
Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Racibórz, later to the Duchy of Teschen
The Duchy of Teschen (german: Herzogtum Teschen), also Duchy of Cieszyn ( pl, KsiÄ™stwo CieszyÅ„skie) or Duchy of TěšÃn ( cs, TěšÃnské knÞectvÃ), was one of the Duchies of Silesia centered on Cieszyn () in Upper Silesia. It was split o ...
, both ruled by a local branch of Piast dynasty
The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 930–992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great.
Branch ...
. It is not known when it was transferred from one to the other. In 1327 both duchies became a fee of Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became 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 World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the village became a part of Czechoslovakia. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Zaolzie region it was annexed by Poland, administratively organised in Frysztat County
Frysztat County () was an administrative territorial entity of the Second Polish Republic. Named after its capital in the town of Frysztat (now Fryštát district of the town Karviná, Czech Republic), it was part of Silesian Voivodeship, and exis ...
of Silesian Voivodeship. The village was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Czechoslovakia.
See also
* Polish minority in the Czech Republic * ZaolzieFootnotes
References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vernovice Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic Villages in Karviná District Cieszyn Silesia Czech Republic–Poland border crossings