Loučná pod Klínovcem

Loučná pod Klínovcem ( German Bohemian Wiesenthal ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It lies north of the Klínovec on ​​the crest of the central Erzgebirge directly on the border with Germany. The Pöhlbach separates the site from Saxon Oberwiesenthal.

History

The first mention of Wiesenthal dates from 1431, but it is believed that the place was built in the 14th century. At this time the entire Wiesenthal was owned by the Lords of Schoenburg on Pürstein and fell in 1431 between the brothers Wilhelm and Aletsch Aletsch carried on division of Schoenburg. In the Hussitenunruhen deserted the place, and was in 1449 called desolate.

At the beginning of the 16th century it came to silver finds in the Pöhlbachtal wedge between mountain and Fichtelbergbahn to local start-ups and re- colonizations. 1525 the boundary between the rule Schoenburg and the Kingdom of Bohemia was fixed along the Pöhlbaches. The Wiesenthal north-west of the creek remained schönburgisch ( to 1559 ) and is today Unterwiesenthal in Germany. The opposite bank of the creek came to the royal rule Preßnitz in Bohemia, whose owner Kaspar Schlick was.

After 1527 Ernst von Schoenburg on the southeast slope of the Fichtel had founded in his field the Neustettlein Wiesenthal ( Wiesenthal top ), King of Bohemia and later Emperor Ferdinand I also gave Loučná the municipal law. During this time was a lively mining and it came huts and hammers on both sides of the Wiesenthal. 1601, Emperor Rudolf II Loučná the privileges of a royal mining town. 1623 silts were expropriated after the Battle of White Mountain. As a result of the Counter-Reformation walked to the middle of the 17th century, the Protestants in the neighboring towns of Saxon and Bohemian Wiesenthal lost most of its inhabitants.

With the decline of the mining industry emerged in the city several glove factories and the Posamentiererhandwerk was established. 1890 electric lighting was introduced, and in the same year was first used in Loučná in Austria -Hungary, a steam engine to power sewing machines.

1939 lived in the town of 1,230 inhabitants and there were 180 houses. After the Second World War, the almost exclusive Bohemian German population was expelled and Český Wiesenthal, the remote was on the foreclosed limit for future DDR now, completely deserted and lost its city charter.

1947 Český Wiesenthal received the new designation Loučná. In 1948, the town was incorporated in the resolution of Okres Jáchymov in the Okres Karlovy Vary - okolí. 1949 Haj u Loučné was incorporated. The local government reform of 1960 Loučná came to Okres Chomutov. In the 1970s, was the incorporation of České Hamry ( Bohemian Hammer) with Výsada ( Lauxmühle ), these villages are today parts of Vejprty. At this time, the dilapidated church was demolished. Between 1986 and 1991, the church lost its independence and was one of Vejprty.

1992 Loučná was an independent municipality again. The actual resort consists almost exclusively of weekend homes. 1991 were in Loučná only 8 houses in which 14 people lived. Today there are about 20

With Oberwiesenthal the place is connected since 1995 by a border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists, thereby also has formed a well-attended cheap goods market. Since 10 October 2006 Loučná pod Klínovcem is a city again.

Boroughs

The city Loučná pod Klínovcem consists of the districts Haj ( Stolzenhain ) and Loučná ( Loučná ), at the same time also form Katastralbezirke.

Personalities

• Maximilian core (1877 -ca. 1945), journalist and writer
• Gustav Zindel (1883-1959), painter of the Ore Mountains
• Hans Erich Slany (1926-2013), industrial designer