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19-687: (Redirected from Víska ) Viska or Víska may refer to: Places in the Czech Republic [ edit ] Víska (Havlíčkův Brod District) , a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region Víska u Jevíčka , a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region Víska, a village and part of Březovice in the Central Bohemian Region Víska,

38-688: A village and part of Čmelíny in the Plzeň Region Víska, a village and part of Chrastava in the Liberec Region Víska, a village and part of Kněžice (Jihlava District) in the Vysočina Region Víska, a village and part of Kravaře (Česká Lípa District) in the Liberec Region Víska, a village and part of Litovel in the Olomouc Region Víska, a village and part of Nová Ves (Strakonice District) in

57-533: Is twinned with: Lusatian Neisse The Lusatian Neisse ( German : Lausitzer Neiße ; Polish : Nysa Łużycka ; Czech : Lužická Nisa ; Upper Sorbian : Łužiska Nysa ; Lower Sorbian : Łužyska Nysa ), or Western Neisse , is a 252-kilometre (157 mi) river in northern Central Europe . It rises in the Jizera Mountains , near Nová Ves nad Nisou , at the Czech border becoming

76-439: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chrastava Chrastava is made up of the town parts of Chrastava, Dolní Chrastava and Horní Chrastava, and the villages of Andělská Hora, Dolní Vítkov, Horní Vítkov, Víska and Vysoká. Chrastava is located about 8 km (5 mi) northwest of Liberec . On the north, the municipal territory borders Germany. It lies mostly in

95-622: Is usually simply referred to as the Neisse . Since the river runs through the historic region of Lusatia , the adjective "Lusatian" or "Western" before the name of the river Neisse is used whenever differentiating this border river from the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka , German: Glatzer Neisse ) and the smaller Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona ; German: Wütende Neisse or Jauersche Neisse ), both in Poland. At Bad Muskau

114-542: The Hussite Wars . In 1433, the local castle and the whole town was conquered and damaged. This caused general decline, departure of population and stagnation of trade, which lasted for several decades. In the 16th and 17th centuries, ore mining in Chrastava declined, when most of the reserves had already been mined. The population therefore gradually reoriented to the textile industry. The first large textile factory

133-472: The Oder–Neisse line ). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland to Germany . It is the longest and most watered of the three rivers of its non-adjectival name in both the main languages (the two other rivers being the Eastern Neisse ( Polish : Nysa Kłodzka ; German : Glatzer Neisse ) and Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona ; German: Wütende Neiße or Jauersche Neiße )). It

152-541: The Polish – German border for its remaining 197 kilometres (122 mi), to flow into the similarly northward-flowing Oder from the left. Its drainage basin covers 4,403 km (1,700 sq mi), of which 2,201 km (850 sq mi) is in Poland, the rest is mainly in Germany. The river reaches the tripoint of the three nations by Zittau , a German town/city, after 54 kilometres (34 mi), leaving

171-606: The Zittau Basin , but it also extends into the Jizera Mountains on the north and into the Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge on the south. The highest point is the hill Dlouhá hora at 748 m (2,454 ft) above sea level. The town is situated at the confluence of the Lusatian Neisse and Jeřice rivers. The first written mention of Chrastava is from 1352 as Cratzauia , already referred to as quite big settlement. It

190-735: The Central Bohemian Region People [ edit ] Mark Viska , Australian rules footballer See also [ edit ] Visky (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Viska . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viska&oldid=1174109296 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

209-535: The Czech Republic. It is a left-bank tributary of the Oder, into which it flows between Neißemünde -Ratzdorf and Kosarzyn – north of the towns of Guben and Gubin . The river was a motivations to found Gubin as a craftmanship and trading port in the 13th Century. Since the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II , the river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along

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228-482: The South Bohemian Region Víska, a village and part of Sedlec-Prčice in the Central Bohemian Region Víska, a village and part of Višňová (Liberec District) in the Liberec Region Víska, a village and part of Vysoký Chlumec in the Central Bohemian Region Víska pod Lesy, a village and part of Česká Kamenice in the Ústí nad Labem Region Malá Víska , a municipality and village in

247-578: The area by Organization Schmelt . These camps provided workers for the Tannwald Textile Works and an ammunition factory ( Deutsche Industriewerke AG ) that produced hand grenades and other military material for the armed forces of Germany. The camps became subcamps of Gross-Rosen in October 1944. Female prisoners were transported to Kratzau from Auschwitz , as well as from other Gross-Rosen subcamps that were being evacuated. By then

266-518: The subcamps included Polish, Czech, French, Belgian, Dutch and Danish women. As more women arrived from the evacuated Gross-Rosen subcamps, conditions at Kratzau worsened. Joseph Mengele is known to have visited Kratzau three times between October 1944 and March 1945 to conduct a "selection"; after each of these visits the selected women were sent to a subcamp in Zittau . After the German population

285-470: The town. Chrastava is located on the railway line Liberec – Zittau – Varnsdorf . The main landmark of Chrastava is the Church of Saint Lawrence. It was originally a wooden church from the 14th century. A massive stone tower was added at the end of the 16th century. The church was rebuilt into its current pseudo-Gothic form in 1866–1868. The Baroque rectory next to the church dates from 1739. The town hall

304-593: Was expelled in 1945–1947, Chrastava was resettled mainly by Czechs . The largest employed with its headquarters in the town is a branch of the Benteler International company, focused on the production of automotive parts. The factory was built in 1999 and employs about 600 people. The I/35 expressway (part of the European route E442 ) from Liberec to the Czech-German border passes through

323-547: Was built in 1815. In 1859, the railway was built. Chrastava became part of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of Austria-Hungary from World War I . The town was almost entirely ethnic German , however, and was ceded to Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland after the Munich Agreement in 1938. In 1943, during World War II , two forced labor camps were set up in

342-768: Was built in the second half of the 17th century, after the old town hall was destroyed by fires in 1621 and 1642. Its current appearance with Neoclassical elements dates from 1899. The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is located in Horní Vítkov. It was built in the Baroque style in 1671. The Church of Our Lady of the Snows is located in Andělská Hora. Its present Empire form dates from 1833. Chrastava

361-537: Was founded probably at the end of the 13th century by German settlers, having been invited by King Ottokar II . They came mainly from the town of Pirna in Saxony and began to mine metals in the vicinity of Chrastava, in particularly copper, tin, lead, iron and silver. Chrastava, then known mostly by the German name Kratzau, was occupied by the Hussites who use the town as a base for expeditions into Lusatia during

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