Stará Červená Voda
Stará Červená Voda (German: Alt Rothwasser) is a municipality and village in Jeseník District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is located on the border with Poland.
Stará Červená Voda | |
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 Church of Corpus Christi | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Stará Červená Voda Location in the Czech Republic | |
| Coordinates: 50°19′46″N 17°12′4″E | |
| Country |  Czech Republic |
| Region | Olomouc |
| District | Jeseník |
| First mentioned | 1291 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 36.62 km2 (14.14 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 304 m (997 ft) |
| Population (2022-01-01)[1] | |
| • Total | 595 |
| • Density | 16/km2 (42/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 790 53 |
| Website | staracervenavoda |
Stará Červená Voda lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Jeseník, 84 km (52 mi) north of Olomouc, and 200 km (120 mi) east of Prague.
Administrative parts
The village of Nová Červená Voda is an administrative part of Stará Červená Voda.
History
The first written mention of Stará Červená Voda is from 1291, in a deed which described the situation in 1266.[2] It was then part of the Duchy of Nysa within fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. Later on, along with the Duchy of Nysa, it passed under Bohemian suzerainty, and following the duchy's dissolution in 1850, it was incorporated directly into Bohemia. Following World War I, from 1918, it formed part of Czechoslovakia.
From 1938 to 1945 the village was occupied by Germany. It was the base for a German-operated working party (E433) of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war, under the administration of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp at Łambinowice.[3] In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced into German-occupied territories, the prisoners were marched by the Germans westward in the Long March. Many of them died, rest of them was liberated by the allied armies after some four months of travelling on foot.[4]
References
- "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2022". Czech Statistical Office. 2022-04-29.
- "Historie obce Stará Červená Voda" (in Czech). Obec Stará Červená Voda. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- "Working Parties". Lamsdorf.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- "Stalag VIIIB 344 Lamsdorf". Stalag VIIIB 344 Lamsdorf. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
