Horní Moštěnice
| Horní Moštěnice | ||
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 Horní Moštěnice
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| Coordinates: 49°24′59″N 17°27′41″E / 49.41639°N 17.46139°ECoordinates: 49°24′59″N 17°27′41″E / 49.41639°N 17.46139°E | ||
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 Czech Republic
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| Region | Olomouc | |
| District | Přerov | |
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| • Total | 9.81 km2 (3.79 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 216 m (709 ft) | |
| Population (2006) | ||
| • Total | 1,607 | |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) | |
| Postal code | 751 17 | |
| Website | http://www.hornimostenice.cz | |
Horní Moštěnice is a village and municipality (obec) in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has a population of about 1,600, who live in 560 houses. It is 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the town of Přerov, on the road between Přerov and Otrokovice. It is a quite modern village. You can find here a primary school, a nursery school, a doctor surgery, a dentist, a veterinary doctor, a post office, a cinema, a library and three shops with food, drugstore, six pubs and a lot self-employed. There are also three mineral springs. The best-known is Hanácká kyselka (Hanakian acidulous water).
There is an old fortification about 1 km (0.62 mi) above the village, which is connected with Moštěnice's chapel in the middle of the village and with a not exactly known place in Přerov by abandoned tunnels.
The name Švédské šance (English: Swedish Rampart) comes from Thirty Years War. The bunker was built by Swedish soldiers as a Swedish barrier. They assaulted other villages from this place. The fortification was used in the Second World War as well.
On June 18–19, 1945, Slovak Germans from Dobšiná village were passing through Přerov while being transported back to Slovakia. Here they were taken out of the train by Slovakian soldiers, taken outside the city to a hill Švédské šance, where they were forced to dig their own graves and all were shot (71 men, 120 women and 74 children).
The first written references about village come from AD 1131. The name of village is quite old. In the time of Great Moravia there was an important way connecting Velehrad with Přerov and Olomouc, leading through hags and marshes, so the path had to be hardened by bundles of wicker called moština, giving later the name to the village.
The streamlet Moštěnka, which flows around the village, used to be called Stvola after a willow-trees species (stvola in Old Slavic).
The first reference about stronghold is from 1389. The village and stronghold used to stand about 1 km east of Moštěnice, nowadays there is just lonely place and old un-used mill called Štulbach. The name Štulbach was derived from streamlet's name Stvola. Whole name of village and stronghold was half Czech and half German "Stvolbach" which was common in these days. According to old information, the stronghold was built from stones on an area 32 m × 83 m (105 ft × 272 ft).
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