Country Czech Republic Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 16.07 km² | District Bruntál District Elevation 640 m Local time Thursday 10:40 PM | |
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Region Moravian-Silesian Region Weather 3°C, Wind W at 23 km/h, 64% Humidity Points of interest MiniMuzeum obce Andělská Hora, SKI Annaberg, Pustá Rudná | ||
Andělská Hora, a.k.a. Andělská Hora ve Slezsku (German: Engelsberg) is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 8 km northwest of Bruntál and has around 370 inhabitants.
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Village of Pustá Rudná (Lauterseifen) is administrative part of Andělská Hora.
History
The village was founded in 1540, in 1553 it was registered as mining city and furnished (in 1556) 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 (99.7%) were German-speaking. Most populous religious group were Roman Catholics with 1,761 (98.4%).