Andělská Hora (Bruntál District)
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Location of Andělská Hora in the Czech Republic
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Andělská hora (in German Engelsberg) is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 8 km northwest of Bruntál and has around 370 inhabitants.
Hamlet Pustá Rudná (Lauterseifen) is administrative part of Andělská Hora.
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[edit] History
The village was founded in 1540, in 1553 it was registered as mining city and furnished (in 1556) with all necessary permissions for mining by Johann the Elder von Würben from Freudenthal. After the Thirty Years' War the town was given to the Order of Teutonic Knights who owned the town until 1639.
[edit] Sights
- Church of "Birth of Virgin Mary" from 1672, rebuilt after a fire in 1734
- Statue of the John of Nepomuk (1724)
- Empire cross out of sandstone at the market place (1815)
- Annaberg, mercy chapel (1767)
[edit] Personalities
- Josef Bartsch, a wood carver
- Moritz Jursitzky, a writer
- Albert Schindler, a Biedermeier painter and engraver
- E. S. Engelsberg (1825-1879), a composer (pseudonym of Eduard Schön)
[edit] External links
- Official website (Czech)
- Short information about the village (Czech)
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