Mokřiny (Aš)

Mokřiny ( German wet Grub ) is a district of the Czech town of Cheb Aš in Okres.

Geography

Mokřiny located three kilometers southeast of the center of Aš at the southern foot of the Skřivánčí vrch ( Lerchenberg, 736 m).

Neighboring towns are Vernéřov and Dolni Paseky in the northeast, and the village chief concern in the east, in the southeast Nebesa, Nový Zdar in the south, Mühlbach and New fire in the Southwest, and Lauterbach Wildenau in the west and Aš in the northwest.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1413, when it sold the family of Neuberg 's family Zedtwitz.

After the battle of the kingdom of heaven on May 8, 1759 Seven Years War soldiers' graves were dug in wet Grub, which triggered an epidemic after the winter of next year.

After the abolition of patrimonial wet Grub formed in 1850 a part of the community Wernersreuth in the judicial district or county Asch Asch. On March 22, 1874, wet Grub sparked off and became a separate municipality. The place had about 400 inhabitants at that time. After that, the community benefited from the industrial development of the town Asch and turned into a suburb of Asch, who in 1900 had about 800 inhabitants. Ten years later, the population already 1287 people in the grown to workers' settlement wet Grub. In 1930 wet Grub had 1727 inhabitants. In 1939 there were 1816. Between 1938 and 1945 the town was part of the German district Asch. In 1948, the incorporation of new fire and in the same year was renamed Mokřiny. After the abolition of Okres Aš the community came to the end of 1960 Okres Cheb. With the beginning of 1976 Mokřiny was incorporated into Aš. 1991 lived in Mokřiny 479 people, the 2001 census 155 houses and 530 inhabitants were counted.

Attractions

• Evangelical Church, built in 1913-1914 as the Kaiser- Franz- Josef- Jubilee Church designed by architect Otto Banning, since the destruction of the Holy Trinity Church in Aš by fire in 1960, it serves as a Protestant city church
• Catholic Borromaeus Church, built in 1912 by architect Anton Möller Warnsdorfer and secession
• Memorial to the fallen of the First World War before the Protestant church, built in 1924