MÃrová
Mírová until 1955 Mnichov ( German Münchhof ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located two kilometers east of Chodov and belongs to Okres Karlovy Vary.
Geography
Mírová is located in the Sokolov basin at the Bach Chodovský creek. In the south, the scale on the Kellersberg former slag heap Loket, under the sooner the village Podhoří was raised. In the west, the railway line from Chodov to Nová Role, at the Mírová has a train station runs. The railway line Chomutov - Cheb leads south past the village.
Neighboring towns are Božičany in the north, Jimlíkov in the northeast, and Pocerny Zátiší in the east, and Jenišov Pod Raw in the southeast, Hory and Loučky in the south, Nové Saddleback and Chranišov in the southwest and Chodov in the West.
History
The village was probably a fortified priory after acquiring the rule Chodov by the Klosterwald Assen at the junction of the 12th and 13th centuries. After having been a fall in the mid-14th century in economic distress, it enabled the possessions in Münchhof, Chodov, Perglas and shives consolation of Winkler, who had previously acquired the goods from the Sokolov Nothafft.
The village was first mentioned in the year 1437. 1460 are John and Nicholas Hofmann as the owner of the fortified farm detectable. In the meantime came the Münchhof from 1489 to the slime, he was in the 16th century, however, again owned by the family Hofmann. 1599 acquired Johann Friedrich Lochner von Dallwitz and village festivals of Adam Hofmann. During the Thirty Years' War Wolf Christoph Lochner supported in 1631 the Saxons. His property was confiscated and sold in 1633 to Alexander von Boren. He was succeeded briefly by the Counts Nostic to Sokolov, of which it acquired in 1652 Julius Libštejnský Kolovrat.
The water-resistant and the manor went out to the end of the 18th century with the beginning of the mining industry by the Alaunwerk Anthony of Padua, which degraded the gravels from the Hangendem the lignite seams. Until the start of mining Münchhof was a purely agricultural village. After the abolition of patrimonial Münchhof formed in 1850 a municipality in the district of Sokolov. 1881 was the village by the local railway Chodau - Neudek a connection to the railway network. By 1898, the city expanded to the north- west to the railway station. In addition, the south was the miners colony of mining and Industrial Werke AG, vorm. J. D. Starck. At the time, Münchhof of 84 houses and the colony of 12 From 1920, Münchhof / Mnichov to the district Elbogen. 1930 the community had 989 inhabitants. As a result of the Munich Agreement in 1938 Münchhof annexed by the German Reich. 1939 lived 931 people in Münchhof. From 1938 to 1945, the community was part of the German district Elbogen and came to the end of the Second World War back to Czechoslovakia. From 1949 to 1960 Mnichov belonged to Okres Karlovy Vary - okolí.
After the takeover by the Communists a discussion about the place name began. The place-names Commission took the view that there were too many " Mnichov " in the country and the name was also impacted historically by the Munich Agreement. The local National Committee ( MNV ) not joined the and referred to the historical origin from the time of the monastic rule. Under pressure from the Bezirksnationalauschusses who suggested a name change to " Větrná " ( = wind) and a likelihood of confusion with Mnichov in Slavkov saw that kept its name, the MNV finally hit the new name " Mnichovanka " before. Took place on May 9, 1955, after lengthy negotiations, the renamed Mírová. Since 1961, the community is part of the Okres Karlovy Vary. From 1976 to 1990 Mírová was a district of Karlovy Vary. Since 1990, the community is again.
Community structure
For the community Mírová no districts are reported. Basic settlement units are Mírová ( Münchhof ) and Na Cechu ( colony).
Attractions
- Chapel
- Half-timbered houses
Sons and daughters of the town
- Rudolf Müller (1864-1955), Austrian politician
- Josef Steidl (1919-1986), trade union official and politician ( SED).