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Komorní Lhotka
Summary
(, Kameral Ellgoth) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,500 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority. The folk architecture in the village is well preserved and is protected by law as a village monument zone.
Lhotka is a diminutive form of Lhota, which is a common name for villages in both Czech Republic and western Poland. The word refers to the medieval custom of village founders being exempt from paying duties to their lords for a period of 5–8 years. Komorní Lhotka was first mentioned as Buczkowa Lhota, meaning "Buczek's Lhota". Later the attribute was replaced or dropped and eventually in the 19th century it became known as Komorní (Polish: Kameralna and German Cammeral) as it was belonging to Teschener Kammer.
Komorní Lhotka is located about east of Frýdek-Místek and southeast of Ostrava. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. About three quarters of the municipality lies in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids and within the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area. The northern part of the municipality lies in the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point of Komorní Lhotka is the Ropičanka mountain at above sea level. The Stonávka River flows through the municipality.
The first written mention of Komorní Lhotka is from 1455. Politically the village belonged initially to the Duchy of Teschen. In the second half of the 17th century, the village was colonizes by Vlachs. The livelihood of the population was agriculture (especially flax growing) and pastoralism. in the 19th century, agriculture gradually disappeared. A railway was introduced into the municipality. Residents began working in the surrounding towns, especially in steelworks and mines.
After issuing the Patent of Toleration in 1781 the local citizens subsequently organized a local Lutheran parish as one of over ten in the region.
After Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia.
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