Bystřice (Frýdek-Místek District)
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Bystřice Bystrzyca |
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Exaltation of the Cross church
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| Coordinates: 49°38′8″N 18°43′51″E / 49.63556°N 18.73083°ECoordinates: 49°38′8″N 18°43′51″E / 49.63556°N 18.73083°E | |||
| Country | Czech Republic | ||
| Region | Moravian-Silesian | ||
| District | Frýdek-Místek | ||
| First mentioned | 1423 | ||
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| • Mayor | Mgr. Roman Wróbel (2014) | ||
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| • Total | 16.09 km2 (6.21 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 340 m (1,120 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| • Total | 5,173 | ||
| • Density | 320/km2 (830/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 739 95 | ||
| Website | www |
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Bystřice (Polish: Bystrzyca , German: Bistrzitz) is a large village in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has a population of 5,173 (2006), Poles are 29.7% of the population. 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 village.
The name is topographic in origin (compare : fast, rapid [flow of a river or stream]).
It was first mentioned in a written document in 1523 as Bistrzicze. 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. 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. 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.
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