OlovÃ
Oloví ( German Bleistadt ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is eleven kilometers northwest of Sokolov in the Ore Mountains and belongs to Okres Sokolov.
Geography
Oloví lies on the right bank of the Zwodau. Through the town the railway from Sokolov leads to Kraslice and Klingenthal.
Neighboring towns are Anenské UDOLI in the north, Hory, Loučná and Jindřichovice in the northeast, Haj in the east, Nové Domy and Boučí the southeast, Hřebeny in the south, Dolina, Krajková and Libnov the southwest, Bernov in the west and Horni Studenec and Dolni Studenec in the northwest.
History
Since the mid-14th century evidence exist concerning the lead mining in the area of Zwodautals. On a plateau above the river valley, the mountain settlement Altenberg was created at this time. The survey on the market Bleistadt are based on data on old city seals in 1519 by the owner of Jachymov, Stephan Schlick. Documented this privilege is available from 1523. A year younger is the oldest book of lead mountain town.
Emperor Ferdinand I granted in 1558 belonging to the reign of Hartberg municipal charter, and adopted in the same year a mining order for lead city. The city was in a city center church on the market. 1561 rose Ferdinand lead to the Royal City free mountain town. This privilege was renewed in 1581 by Emperor Rudolf II.
After the Thirty Years' War the city, which then consisted of 65 houses grew quickly and in 1850 lived here for more than 1,000 people. After mining came more and more in the following years to standstill, industry moved in to lead the city. Most important business was the first Bohemian Glas Industrie AG, which in 1892 settled on the train to Graslitz and Zwodau in Zwodautal. In the valley, a settlement of glassmakers, lower lead town was founded, while the old town was later called Upper Lead city. At the time of the First Republic had Bleistadt about 1200 inhabitants, who worked mainly in the glassworks. In addition, even the button factory, basket weaving and lace-making played a significant role.
The inhabitants of the city were mostly on the German population. After the expulsion of the German glass production was continued in Oloví after the Second World War; to glassmakers were resettled from Slovakia. After 1990, this tradition died out and the glass factory was shut down. The place lost in the 1950s, the city charter; since January 23, 2007 Oloví is a city again.
Traffic
Oloví has a station on the cross-border railway line Sokolov - Klingenthal. Direct train connections with the trains of the VIAMONT according to Sokolov, Karlovy Vary ( Carlsbad) and Zwickau.
Community structure
The city Oloví consists of the districts Hory ( horn), Nové Domy ( Neuhäuser ) Oloví (lead city) and Studenec ( Prünles ). Basic settlement units are Dolni Oloví (sub Bleistadt ), Dolni Studenec ( Unterprünles ), Horni Studenec ( Oberprünles ), Horni Oloví (Upper Bleistadt ), Hory, Lipec ( Linde Hammer) and Nové Domy.
The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Hory u Oloví, Nové Domy, Oloví and Studenec u Oloví.
Attractions
- As pseudo- Gothic building built church of the Archangel Michael instead of the old Protestant town church and consecrated in 1902 by Archbishop Leo Skrbenský of Hriste.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Gerhard Fuchs ( historian ) ( born 1928 ), historian.