page_title: Hraničky
section_title: Recent history
hierarchical_section_title: Hraničky / Recent history
caption_attribution_description: Česky: Hraničky (Gränzdorf), Rychlebské hory - schátralý dům
context_page_description: Hraničky is a settlement located in the Rychlebské Hory in the north-eastern part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, a territory historically known as Sudetenland.
context_section_description: After 1945, under the Beneš decrees most Sudeten Germans were denaturalised and forced to leave Czechoslovakia. All but four families were expelled from Hraničky by 1946 and 3 years later the village was empty. In the early 1950s, a former resident Franz Schlegel and his family all of whom successfully avoided the expulsion of Germans, moved back to one of the farmhouses and continued living there until the early 1970s. The rest of the village, however, remained unoccupied and therefore in 1959 the Czechoslovakian communist government decided to completely destroy the settlement. In the summer 1960, the Czechoslovakian Army demolished nearly every standing structure in Hraničky, including the local church and St. Joseph's chapel. The only remaining buildings were two farmhouses occupied by the Schlegel family.
  Today, the picturesque, former village Hraničky is once again empty. The last still standing structure is a mountain cottage owned by the members of the Royal family of Bavaria, the Wittelsbachs.
caption: Ruins of house
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