Albrechtice
Olbrachcice
Municipality
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Flag of Albrechtice
Flag
Coat of arms of Albrechtice
Coat of arms
Albrechtice is located in Czech Republic
Albrechtice
Albrechtice
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 49°47′11″N 18°31′28″E / 49.78639°N 18.52444°E / 49.78639; 18.52444
Country Czech Republic
RegionMoravian-Silesian
DistrictKarviná
First mentioned1447
Government
 • MayorJindřich Feber
Area
 • Total12.69 km2 (4.90 sq mi)
Elevation
258 m (846 ft)
Population
 (2023-01-01)[1]
 • Total3,826
 • Density300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
735 43
Websitewww.obecalbrechtice.cz

Albrechtice (listenⓘ, Polish: Olbrachciceⓘ, German: Albersdorf) is a municipality and village in the Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,800 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority.

Etymology

The name of the village is patronymic in origin, derived from the personal name Albrecht, meaning "Albrecht's village".[2] It could have been the sub-chamberlain of Duchy of Teschen, which is mentioned in 1322.[3]

Geography

Albrechtice is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Karviná and 15 km (9.3 mi) east of Ostrava. It lies mostly in the Moravian-Silesian Foothills, but the northern part of the municipality extends into the Ostrava Basin lowland. The Stonávka River flows through the municipality.

History

The village was first mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among the 50 parishes of Teschen deanery as Albrothsdorff.[4] Politically the village belonged to the Duchy of Teschen, which was since 1327 a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy.

After the 1540s Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. 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 26 March 1654.[3]

After the 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 at least since 1880 to political and legal district of Freistadt.

According to the censuses from 1880–1910 the population of the municipality grew from 1,070 in 1880 to 1,335 in 1910. In 1880 96.9% of inhabitants declared being Czech-speaking, followed by 33 or 3.1% German-speakers. In the next censuses majority were Polish-speaking (growing from 97.9% in 1890 to 99.5% in 1910), followed by diminishing number of German-speakers (from 23 or 2.1% in 1890 to 6 or 0.5% in 1910). In terms of religion, in 1910 the majority were Roman Catholics (899 or 67.3%), followed by Protestants (424 or 31.8%) and Jews (11 or 0.8%).[5]

After World War I, the Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the municipality became a part of Czechoslovakia. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Trans-Olza region it was annexed by Poland, administratively organised in Frysztat County of Silesian Voivodeship.[6] The municipality was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Czechoslovakia.

Demographics

Polish minority makes up 15.7% of the population.[7]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18691,015—    
18801,070+5.4%
18901,102+3.0%
19001,155+4.8%
19101,335+15.6%
YearPop.±%
19211,387+3.9%
19301,641+18.3%
19501,602−2.4%
19612,184+36.3%
19702,559+17.2%
YearPop.±%
19803,616+41.3%
19913,904+8.0%
20014,071+4.3%
20113,795−6.8%
20213,742−1.4%
Source: Censuses[8][9]

Sights

The most important monument is the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. It is a wooden Baroque building from 1766.[10]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2023". Czech Statistical Office. 2023-05-23.
  2. ↑ Mrózek, Robert (1984). Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego [Local names of former Cieszyn Silesia] (in Polish). Katowice: University of Silesia in Katowice. pp. 130–131, 246. ISSN 0208-6336.
  3. 1 2 "Historie obce" (in Czech). Obec Albrechtice. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  4. ↑ "Registrum denarii sancti Petri in archidiaconatu Opoliensi sub anno domini MCCCCXLVII per dominum Nicolaum Wolff decretorum doctorem, archidiaconum Opoliensem, ex commissione reverendi in Christo patris ac domini Conradi episcopi Wratislaviensis, sedis apostolice collectoris, collecti". Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens (in German). Breslau: H. Markgraf. 27: 361–372. 1893. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Piątkowski, Kazimierz (1918). Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem (in Polish). Cieszyn: Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego. pp. 273, 290.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Population Census 2021: Population by selected ethnicity". Public database. Czech Statistical Office. 2021-03-27.
  8. ↑ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Okres Karviná" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21. pp. 1–2.
  9. ↑ "Population Census 2021: Population by sex". Public Database. Czech Statistical Office. 2021-03-27.
  10. ↑ "Kostel sv. Petra a Pavla" (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
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