Andělská Hora (Bruntál District)


Andělská Hora, a.k.a. Andělská Hora ve Slezsku is a small town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 8 km northwest of Bruntál and has around 350 inhabitants. It is one of the least populated municipalities with town status in the Czech Republic.
Village of Pustá Rudná is an administrative part of Andělská Hora.

History

The town was founded in 1540, in 1553 it was registered as mining town and furnished with all necessary permissions for mining by Johann the Elder von Würben from Freudenthal. After the Thirty Years' War the town was given to the Order of Teutonic Knights who owned the town until 1639.
According to the Austrian census of 1910 the village had 1,789 inhabitants, 1,773 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 1,767 were German-speaking. Most populous religious group were Roman Catholics with 1,761.

Sights

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