Abertamy

Abertamy ( German Abertham ) is a city in the Western Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic and is situated at an altitude of 900 m above sea level. NN above the valley of the Red Wistritz. To the west lies the headwaters of the creek fish ( Rybná ). It belongs to Okres Karlovy Vary Region and the Karlovarský.

  • 2.1 Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
  • 2.2 Other

History

Abertham was founded in 1529 by Saxon miners who recruited Count Stefan Schlick, 1579 and received the status of a royal mining town. The first profitable tin and silver deposits in the vicinity of the city, however, were soon exhausted. 1600 broke out the plague, then caused the Thirty Years War great destruction. As a result of the Habsburg Rekatholisierungspolitik wandered many residents in the second half of the 17th century from Saxony. The population was of modest cottage industry ( esp. lace ). Only in 1792 was the place market rights in 1876 was the reintroduction to the city. Since 1850, Abertham became the center of the Bohemian glove manufacture, but also the sheet metal production or artificial flowers manufacturers settled there. From 1850 Abertham was a municipality in the district court or plates from 1910 part of the district Neudek. In the 1860s, the Albrecht studs - silver mine was closed.

The mining of cobalt also played an important role in the history of the city.

1939 Abertham 2939 inhabitants. The German -speaking population had almost completely left the place after 1945; were located from the interior as well as Slovaks and Roma Czechs. Today, for example, still remembers the little cemetery with its German grave stones to the German past of Abertham. After 1945 in Abertamy the promotion of uranium.

Abertamy today is a winter sports center and only has about 1400 inhabitants. Many homes that were empty after the expulsion, were demolished. In the city is since 1946 a forestry school whose closure and amalgamation was decided with the Vocational Education Centre in Nejdek in April 2005. Since June 22, 2007 has Abertamy - for the third time in its history - once a city.

Population Development

Attractions / Activities

Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers

The most important monument is the Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, whose construction dates back to the year 1534 and 1736 received its current Baroque appearance.

The nave is one piece, the prism-shaped tower. Especially valuable are the coffered ceiling and the three-piece wooden choir. The Baroque high altar from the late 18th century, includes wooden statues of sacred Fourteen Holy Helpers and the Holy Family.

In 1989, the steeple of Czechoslovak authorities was declared dilapidated and renovated from 1993 to 1996. 75 % of the construction cost of CZK 2,860,000 were covered by donations former Abert Hamer citizens who now live in Germany. 25 % of the cost came from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the community Abertham.

In a second renovation of the church roof and tower for 3.300.000 Kč were renewed from May to September 2003. The initiative came back out of the former, now living in Germany Abert Hamer citizens. For 73 % of the construction costs, the group Abertham came on. 27 % of the costs were borne by the Czech-German Fund for the Future Prague.

More

  • In the immediate vicinity of the city rises the 1,028 m high Pleßberg ( Plešivec ) with mountain hotel and observation tower.
  • Transborder Anton -Günther - way
  • A special feature is named after the place goat cheese with herbs ( Abertam ).

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Abertamy Abertamy ( Abertham ) and Hřebečná ( Hengstererben ), at the same time also form Katastralbezirke.

Hřebečná originally consisted of the two places stallion and heir, of which stallion once and mountain freedom held as the measure adopted by King Ferdinand " Zinnbergwerksordnung for stallion Perninger ( Bärringen / Pernink ), City of Light ( Hroznětín ), plates ( Horni Blatna ), Godsend ( Gottesgab / Bozi Dar ), dump ( Plesivec ) Mückenberg ( Halbmeil / Rozhraní ) ... from January 1, 1548 " occupied. 1939 people lived here in 1158. In Hřebečná after 1945 many houses were demolished.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Joseph Henrich (1879-1943), Forstmann in Vorarlberg
  • Franziska Böhm ( born 1937 ), author dialect
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