Tachov (Česká Lípa District)

Tachov ( German Tacha ) is a municipality of Okres Ceska Lipa in the Liberec Region in the north of the Czech Republic.

The farming village is located 3 km south-west of town, ( Hirschberg at the lake) on the plateau between Daubaer Switzerland and grief Mountains. Tachov located on the north west end of the Tachovský vrch ( Tachner mountain) and 6 km west of Bezděz ( Bösig ) with its highly visible castle.

History

The first mention of the village was carried out in 1460 in a document confirming George of Podiebrad about the privileges of the city Hirschberg. Its inhabitants lived from agriculture, especially the cultivation of the famous Daubaer green hops.

As of 1553 there were aristocratic leisure farms, as the owner of Kaspar Plotta Jansfeld on Tacha and Martin of Tacha were called, which were subject to the rule Bösig. In the 16th century, the Wartenberg acquired the pledged royal estates. 1595 inherited the Berka of Dubé and the rule of the Thirty Years' War, Albrecht von Wallenstein was the owner. About Walter Butler and Christoph Heise stone of possession in 1680 came back to the forest Steiner, who owned the property until 1945.

1784 a school was established in Tacha. The consecration of the chapel, which belonged to the parish in Hirschberg, took place in 1794. With the replacement of patrimonial regimes in Bohemia Tacha in 1850 an independent village. In 1900 a new school was inaugurated. At the beginning of the 20th century the street from Hirschberg was built by Tacha 1908 and another after Siertsch. This was due to the inclusion of quarries on the 498 m high mountain to Tachner quartzite degradation.

1921 was the site of 42 houses and had 209 inhabitants, of which only three of the Czech minority belonged. 1946, there were 200 inhabitants; in the 1950s and 1960s established a aging. As a result, the school was closed in 1963.

Tachov was incorporated into Doksy on March 13, 1976, and was the 1993 back its independence. Meanwhile, the population has grown from 82 to 138. In 1993, the chapel was restored.

Attractions

• Landmark of the village is the Tachovský vrch. The phonolite is forested cone on its slopes, the summit is completely occupied by the quarry.
• In the village is a baroque church dating from 1794.
• The house at No. 38 is a Chaluppe in typical block design.