Milhostov

Milhostov ( German Mühlessen ) is a municipality in the Carlsbad Region Okres Cheb in the Czech Republic with 344 inhabitants ( as of 2011), about 11 km northeast of Cheb ( Eger) at an altitude of 440 m above sea level. NN diligence on Bach ( Plesná ) located.

History

The place name is - like many in the area - probably westslawischer origin. Mühlessen was an old stately home and was in 1219 the Poppo of Milosz, who was the magistrate of the city of Eger tributary. The first written mention of the village dates from the Milocz 1219, as in a charter of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa for the monastery forest Assen Poppo is called by Milhozt.

Already in 1300, the church is the old, the St. Nicholas consecrated detectable; 1306 it is called as a branch of Frauenreuth. 1322 is Mylosen on the list of places of pledged Cheb. Under the reign of Charles IV, the property was distributed among 24 farms and the town of Eger made ​​serfs ( until the end of the manors 1848). 1429 the Hussites burned down the village. In the time of the Reformation, when the whole Cheb was Lutheran, was the first village school. Ecclesiastical belonged Mühlessen to 1722 the parish Frauenreuth, then Nebanitz. In Mühlessen No. 28, a courtyard in the size of 100 acres, was Johann Georg Sölch ( 1832-1873 ), the father of the writer Irmgard Höfer of field storm born.

Mühlessen was a separate parish since 1905. From the mid-19th century, the place for the judicial district of Wildenstein or district Eger was in the monarchy of Austria - Hungary. After the end of World War I in 1919, the city fell to the new Czechoslovakia, from 1938 to 1945 he was part of the Sudeten region of the German Reich. Around 1940 was between Watzgenreuth and Trebendorf the construction of a partial piece of an Imperial motorway route, which remained unfinished and its dam in the brook valley of the hard work is still clearly visible.

In spring 1945, occupied at the end of World War II, American troops the village, but withdrew accordance with the contract in October 1945 return; the Czechoslovak authorities returned. In the wake of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia exclusively German population of Mühlessen was forced to leave the place, and made settlers space.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Milhostov Hluboká ( Green Nuns ) Milhostov ( Mühlessen ) and Vackovec ( Watzgenreuth ). Basic settlement units are Devin ( Döba ), Dolni Částkov (lower lap Reuth ) Doubrava ( Doberau ) Hluboká Milhostov and Vackovec.

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Devin, Dolni Částkov, Doubrava u Milhostova, Hluboká u Milhostova, Milhostov and Vackovec.

Attractions

• Parish Church of St.. St. Nicholas from the early 13th century with Romanesque and Gothic elements, which was rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century in the Baroque style and expanded and renovated 1919. The high altar dates from around 1760. The church stands in the middle of the walled cemetery on a hill.
• Marie column with a Rosenkapitell and the Mother of God a double-sided stone sculpture sitting on a crescent moon with the child Jesus on her arm. She looks as a double figure to the east and west; donated erected by the owner of the mill house No. 13, J. Werner and has been on the market square of the town in 1706.