If a forest in Chrastava (Krazau) be polish soon? "No, we can not even think," said Mayor Michael Chrastavas Canov. The same opinion, other city officials. they get support from district captain Martin Puta.
Czech Republic would be selling 368 hectares of land in Poland. The threat of boundary shift is due to a dispute over border demarcation in Teschner field from the year 1918th After the Second World War, Moscow has set the boundary line. Under an agreement of 1958, the limit has been straightened and shortened by about 80 kilometers. Here Poland came to nearly four square kilometers. This area will bring the land back gladly. "Poland insists that the territorial claims have to be settled," confirmed Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats). Therefore, the Czech Republic has been trying for ten years to pay off the territorial debt in Poland. Financial compensation has the Polish government rejected.
End of 2015. The Czech Interior Ministry Land has chosen that will change their nationality in the future. This affects not only Chrastava. Many communities in Frýdlant are proposed for land. On the list of land that could be ceded to the Polish neighbors, to surfaces of Bulovka (Bullendorf) Kunratice (Kunnersdorf), Horni Rasnice are (Bärnsdorf at Tafelfichte) and Hermanice (Hermsdorf). Together with Chrastava they should bear the brunt.
In concern but are also places in North Moravia. The communities are afraid to strategically important land. In Mikulovice (Niklasdorf) in the district of Jesenik (Jesenik) to be built on affected land houses for families. By contrast, Krnov (Jägerndorf) itself has chosen and offered plots.
In Chrastava is about 52 hectares of forest land in Horni Vitkov (Oberwittighausen). "The area heard loud old maps at least a thousand years for the Czech Republic, the only exception was the 1938 and 1945", says the mayor. When he was now asked by the Home Office, to rule on the transfer, he has clearly objected. The limit can not be so easy to move, "he explains the SZ. "This would create a constitutional law." But The need three-fifths of the Senate agree. A final decision is therefore not in sight,
The state border of the Czech Republic has not changed for 18 years. 1997 Czech Republic and Slovakia have exchanged two villages, Sidonie and U Sabotu. The border between the Czech Republic and Poland 762 kilometers long and forms 23 percent of the total length of the Czech border.