Dolní Rychnov

Dolni Rychnov ( German sub Reichenau ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It lies on the southern outskirts of Sokolov and belongs to Okres Sokolov.

Geography

Dolni Rychnov located at the foot of the Imperial Forest in the Sokolov Basin. To the northwest rises the former dump Antonín. To the east is the site of the golf course Dolni Rychnov. To the south stretches a heaps and mining area. In the southwest is the power plant Tisova.

Neighboring towns are Sokolov in the north, and Ovcarna Těšovice in the northeast, Vítkov in the east, in the southeast Novina, Březova in the south, and Rudolec Tisova in the southwest and Citice in the West.

The surrounding towns Lísková ( Haselbach ) and Horni Rychnov (Upper Reichenau ) fell victim to the brown coal mining.

History

The first mention of Rychnov was in 1309 as part of a compensation claim of the pen Tepl Albert of Notthafft because of the occupation of the village. In the 15th century belonged to the rule Reichenau Elbogen. The settlement along the creek Reichenauer ( Rychnovský Potok ) consisted of two villages, Upper and lower Reichenau Reichenau. When Wolf of silt had acquired the site in 1533, he joined him in his reign Sokolov.

Having been in the first half of the 18th century in the vicinity of the village lignite deposits were found, transformed under the mining town of Reichenau. 1834 the first steam-powered fountains in Bohemia was erected in sub Reichenau. The mining entrepreneur Johann David Starck built a factory for carbon black, colors, and naphthalene in sub- Reichenau. His son Johann Anton Starck was to further develop the coal deposits of the sough of St. Anthony propel. The longest three miles sough of the Sokolov coal district dewatered the mines of Těšovice in the Eger.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed under Reichenau with the hamlet of Upper Reichenau 1850 a municipality in the district of Sokolov. In the 19th century in sub- Reichenau opened a glass factory, for which the domestic coal was the fuel and the 170 people employed. 1866, the first steam-driven machine was installed. Later, the pits were a railway connection. After 1883 Johann Anton Starck had died, was in 1885 the union of all Starckschen company for mining and Industrial Werke AG, vorm. J. D. Starck, whose seat was Reichenau. At the beginning of the 20th century the company was bought by the banking family Petschek. In sub- Reichenau the Directorate General of Sokolov works of the Petschek Group was established. In this time of digestion of the pit Antonín was, a little later by the Nová Anežka. 1902 was a great thermal power plant. At the pit of Nova Anežka a wooden briquette factory was built in 1922, 1930 was the construction of a more modern. 1930 the municipality had 3,800 inhabitants, by 1939 it had 3719th After the Munich Agreement, the church was incorporated into the German Reich under Reichenau and belonged until 1945 to the district of Sokolov. 1938 began the deportation of the Czechs. After the end of World War II, the place came back to Czechoslovakia; it began the expulsion of the Germans. In 1965 the closure of the mine Antonín. 1980 Dolni Rychnov was incorporated into Sokolov. Since 1 January 1991, the municipality consists again. Between 2002 and 2005, the project of a great golf course was realized in the course of restoring a mining waste dump. It was created in roughly where before the start of mining the village Horni Rychnov had stood.

Community structure

For the municipality of Dolni Rychnov no districts are reported.