Bystřice (Frýdek-Místek District)

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Bystřice

Bystrzyca
Municipality
Exaltation of the Cross church
Exaltation of the Cross church
Flag of Bystřice
Flag
Coat of arms of Bystřice
Coat of arms
Bystřice is located in Czech Republic
Bystřice
Bystřice
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 49°38′8″N 18°43′51″E / 49.63556°N 18.73083°E / 49.63556; 18.73083Coordinates: 49°38′8″N 18°43′51″E / 49.63556°N 18.73083°E / 49.63556; 18.73083
Country Czech Republic
RegionMoravian-Silesian
DistrictFrýdek-Místek
First mentioned1423
Government
 • MayorRoman Wróbel
Area
 • Total16.09 km2 (6.21 sq mi)
Elevation
340 m (1,120 ft)
Population
 (2020-01-01[1])
 • Total5,356
 • Density330/km2 (860/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
739 95
Websitewww.bystrice.cz

About this soundBystřice (help·info) (Polish: About this soundBystrzyca, German: Bistrzitz) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,400 inhabitants and it is the second most populated municipality in the Czech Republic without the town status. Polish minority makes up 29.7% of the population.[2]

Etymology[]

The name is topographic in origin (compare bystry: fast, rapid [flow of a river or stream]).

Geography[]

It lies between the Silesian and Moravian-Silesian Beskids mountain ranges, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The Hluchová River flows to the Olza River in the municipality.

History[]

It was first mentioned in a written document in 1523 as Bistrzicze.[3][4] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg Monarchy.

After the 1540s Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. Local Protestants built there a wooden church in 1587. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings) in the region by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 21 March 1654.[5] In spite of being bereft of place of worship many of the local inhabitants remained to be Lutherans. After issuing the Patent of Toleration in 1781 they subsequently organized a local Lutheran parish as one of over ten in the region.[6] The Catholic church was dismantled in 1897. In the place of this wooden church was later built a current Exaltation of the Cross Catholic wooden church. Lutherans built a wooden church in 1782 and current bricked one in 1811-1817.

Settlers have lived mainly off farming and pastures. After the construction of Třinec Iron and Steel Works in 1839, some of villagers went there working as workers. Many traditional old wooden houses still remain in some parts of the village.

After Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the political district of Cieszyn and the legal district of Jablunkov. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1,933 in 1880 to 2,442 in 1910 with the majority being native Polish-speakers (between 98.2% and 98.9%) accompanied by German-speaking (at most 37 or 1.7% in 1900) and Czech-speaking people (at most 13 or 0.5% in 1910). In terms of religion in 1910 the majority were Protestants (88,2%), followed by Roman Catholics (10.9%) and Jews (20 or 0.9%).[7] Bystřice was also traditionally inhabited by Cieszyn Vlachs, speaking Cieszyn Silesian dialect.

After World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of Czechoslovakia. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Zaolzie region it was annexed by Poland, administratively adjoined to Cieszyn County of Silesian Voivodeship.[8] It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Czechoslovakia.

Notable people[]

Twin towns – sister cities[]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in the Czech Republic

Bystřice is twinned with:[9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.
  2. ^ "2001 census data". Czech Statistical Office. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08.
  3. ^ Panic, Idzi (2010). Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) [Cieszyn Silesia in the Middle Ages (until 1528)] (in Polish). Cieszyn: Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie. p. 310. ISBN 978-83-926929-3-5.
  4. ^ Mrózek, Robert (1984). Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego [Local names of former Cieszyn Silesia] (in Polish). Katowice: University of Silesia in Katowice. p. 50. ISSN 0208-6336.
  5. ^ Broda, Jan (1992). "Materiały do dziejów Kościoła ewangelickiego w Księstwie Cieszyńskim i Państwie Pszczyńskim w XVI i XVII wieku". Z historii Kościoła ewangelickiego na Śląsku Cieszyńskim (in Polish). Katowice: Dom Wydawniczy i Księgarski „Didache“. pp. 259–260. ISBN 83-85572-00-7.
  6. ^ Michejda, Karol (1992). "Dzieje Kościoła ewangelickiego w Księstwie Cieszyńskim (od Reformacji do roku 1909)". Z historii Kościoła ewangelickiego na Śląsku Cieszyńskim (in Polish). Katowice: Dom Wydawniczy i Księgarski „Didache“. pp. 144–145. ISBN 83-85572-00-7.
  7. ^ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 266, 284.
  8. ^ "Ustawa z dnia 27 października 1938 r. o podziale administracyjnym i tymczasowej organizacji administracji na obszarze Ziem Odzyskanych Śląska Cieszyńskiego". Dziennik Ustaw Śląskich (in Polish). Katowice. nr 18/1938, poz. 35. 31 October 1938. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Obec Svodín". svodin.sk (in Slovak). Obec Svodín. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  10. ^ "Gminy partnerskie". goleszow.pl (in Polish). Gmina Goleszów. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  • Cicha, Irena; Kazimierz Jaworski; Bronisław Ondraszek; Barbara Stalmach; Jan Stalmach (2000). Olza od pramene po ujście. Český Těšín: Region Silesia. ISBN 80-238-6081-X.

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