Bílý Potok (Javorník)

Old pre-Schengen passport stamp from Bílý Potok.

Bílý Potok (German: Weissbach) is a small village located in the foothills of Rychlebské Hory (Reichensteiner Gebirges in German) in the Olomouc Region, Czech Republic. The village still administers the nearby settlement Chlum and today is a part of the town of Javorník.

Administrative parts

• The former settlement Chlum.^[1]

Famous personalities born or living in Bílý Potok

• Rudolf Rittner (1869–1943), leading early German actor

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.

External links

• Website of microregion Javornicko
• Web-page about the Rychlebské Hory and Jeseníky mountains
• Web-page about the Rychlebské Hory region

Coordinates: 50°24′41″N 16°59′41″E / 50.41139°N 16.99472°E / 50.41139; 16.99472