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The first issue of Eagle STUDY Edition, an online periodical focused on regional culture, history and natural beauty of the Eagle Mountains and Podorlicko. The first published work is devoted to Earth's biogeographical characteristics of the gate, and its author is John Divíšek, acting at the Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno.

Earth Gate is a picturesque mountain valley, where the Wild Eagle changes its direction of flow and breaks the path of the main ridge of the Eagle Mountains in Central Bohemia. In the past, separated the German-speaking and Bartošovice českojazyčný Klášterec. Today we understand the Earth as a natural gateway route connecting the Czech basin borders with the Republic of Poland.
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In 2006 she defended her Master. Alena Ježková at the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, his thesis "pilgrimage and religious devotion in the Eagle Mountains and Podorlicko". The work deals with pilgrimage sites in the Eagle Mountains and countryside Podorlicko both places the Catholic Church recognized the pilgrimage, or sacred, and the place where you can find and follow signs folk beliefs. Due to differences in ethnic composition in the examined parts of the observed phenomenon of different historical developments in Czech and German parts. A picture of the overall framework within which the phenomenon occurs pilgrimage sites, offers insights into the historical development of the area with regard to Christian piety and the development of ecclesiastical organization in history. It also monitors the process of colonization and ethnic composition of the population. The work is devoted to analysis of the four pilgrimage sites - Fountains at Dobruška Dřízen the luxury of devotion. Read more »

Very well renovated house with cows in the Eagle Mountains? In the mid fifties regional national committees extensive campaigns attracted workers from the interior to the border communities in the former Sudetenland. Especially in agriculture was a labor shortage. For "dosídlence" were mainly in smaller mountain and foothill communities ready to open houses and various material benefits. A prerequisite for obtaining the long-term establishment in the village and work in collective farms and tractor stations. In 1956, the recruitment brochure KNV in Hradec Kralove, which contains a clear list of communities in which they are dosídlenci welcome and a brief description. Read more »

Probably only few of us have knowledge of folk culture and customs of the Germans established in 1945 in the Eagle Mountains. After all visible references to the original German settlement today provide only a stone Calvary individual statues of saints or scattered in the landscape, which usually contain more legible inscriptions in German and also serves as evidence of popular piety in the region. Worse than the written word, of course, transmit or share traditional folk singing. The folk memory orlickohorského therefore have been virtually displaced by German folk songs. In live performance is not meeting with them already, I'm not aware of any publicly available historical records. Read more »

Book Disappeared Sudetenland issued Antikomplex Association (5th edition, 2007) maps the different regions of Bohemia and Moravia, which occurred after 1945, the German minority to emigrate. In particular, the border region have undergone profound changes due to displacement of indigenous and other population movements. Book to describe the postwar fate of cultural landscapes and villages, many of which disappeared completely, delivers a unique comparison of historical and contemporary photographs of places to identify and determine the typical character of the area. Chapter "Eagle Mountains - das Orlicke hory" is made ​​available electronically in PDF format. Read more »