Horní Hoštice (, ) is a small village and part of the town of Javorník in the

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. It is located in the foothills of the Golden Mountains in the

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, on the border with

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History

The village was first mentioned in the ''

Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (, '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 century. It lists towns and villages obliged to pay a tithe to the Bishopric of Wrocław. As a pr ...

'' from around 1295, when it was part of the

Duchy of Nysa The Duchy of Nysa (, ) or Duchy of Neisse () was one of the duchies of Silesia with its capital at Nysa in Lower Silesia. Alongside the Duchy of Siewierz, it was the only ecclesiastical duchy in the Silesian region, as it was ruled by a bis ...

within fragmented

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-ruled Poland. Later on, the duchy passed under Bohemian (Czech) suzerainty. After the 18th-century

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, the newly-drawn border divided the village in two. The present-day Czech village Horní Hoštice remained within the Duchy of Nysa under Bohemian suzerainty, while the present-day Polish village Gościce fell to

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. Following the duchy's dissolution in 1850, Horní Hoštice was incorporated directly into Bohemia, and after

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, from 1918, it formed part of

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

. According to ''Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 450; Teil II - Sudetendeutsche Gebiete und Memelland'' Horní Hoštice had 394 inhabitants in 1930 and 375 in 1939. During the

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(

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), the occupiers operated a

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subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344

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in the village. After the war, the remaining German-speaking population was expelled in accordance to the

Potsdam Agreement The Potsdam Agreement () was the agreement among three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union after the war ended in Europe that was signed on 1 August 1945 and published the following day. A ...

and the village was restored to Czechoslovakia.

Notes

References

* Gernot, Ludwig und Wolf, Kurt - ''Jauernig und das Jauerniger Ländchen. Das 2. Heimatbuch des ehemaligen Gerichtsbezirkes Jauernig'' - 1995. * Hosák, Ladislav - ''Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848-1960'' - 1967, Profil Ostrava. * Kuča, Karel - ''Města a městečka v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku II. díl'' - 1997, Libri Praha. * Pachl, Hans - ''Jauernig und das Jauerniger Ländchen. Ein Heimatbuch des ehemaligen Gerichtsbezirks Jauernig'' - 1983. * ''Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 450; Teil II - Sudetendeutsche Gebiete und Memelland.'' Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis für das Deutsche Reich. Berlin. 1939

External links

Website of microregion Javornicko

Web-page about the Rychlebské Hory and Jeseníky mountains

Web-page about the Rychlebské Hory region
Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic Populated places in Jeseník District {{Olomouc-geo-stub