Potůčky

Potůčky ( German Breitenbach ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic directly on the Czech- German border across from Johann George town in the Ore Mountains.

History

After the early modern entrepreneur Georg Bernecker from Leipzig had created after 1537 two stamp mills at Breitenbach, built the Farbmacher Oswald Gluck Henn from Schneeberg in 1569 at the Breitenbach, a paint mill, later a blue color factory emerged from the. Emperor Maximilian II in 1570 allowed the citizens of the Bohemian mountain town plates ( Horni Blatna ) to invest in the forest area of the Bohemian- Saxon border beyond the mouth of the stream width in the black water is a new hammer mill. Due to financial difficulties sold mayor and city council of plates these rights in 1583 to Sebastian Koeppel from Schlaggenwald ( Slavkov ), who built the hammer together with associated mill, guest house and residential buildings here, which was named Breitenbach.

1643 bought the blue Thaler hammer Mr. Caspar Wittich ( 1602-1673 ) the hammer Breitenbach, which had been hard hit during the Thirty Years' War under the rim holes of marauding soldiers. Wittich put 1651 directly opposite on the Saxon side, another hammer works on, which was named after him Wittigsthal and today is one of Johann George Town.

As part of the Bohemian administrative reform of 1849 was created by the merger of several districts (see below), the " Breitenbach " that the District Commission Jachymov ( Jáchymov ) and for the judicial district belonged plates. With the restructuring of the administration in 1910 Breitenbach in the district Neudek or later county Neudek ( Nejdek ) was integrated.

Although Breitenbach after 1910 was designed by the architect Karl Mattusch from Carlsbad own Roman Catholic. Received church, the place remained the parish in the mountain town of plates, where even today is the cemetery. In 1939 there were unsuccessful attempts to annex Breitenbach as the district of Johann George Town. 1939 lived in Breitenbach 1559 people. The official name of the place was until 1945 Breitenbach.

Beyond the borders of the place was known outside the inn tavern dirt on the road to Karlovy Vary ( Carlsbad), after winning the 1904 dedicated a song vielgesungenes the Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Guenther, which was sold on the song printed postcards. The inn was reopened in 1991, closed ten years later again, now it will be forfeited.

Potůčky has become by its numerous street shops and sales halls mainly Vietnamese owner and after the opening of a border crossing for cars by Großtankstelle a much visited place for German shopping tourists since the summer of 1991.

Traffic

Since 1899 is composed by a rail link across the border to Johann George town and inland, at the Heinrich Stein, south-west over the mountain Erzgebirgskamm the plate to Karlovy Vary ( Carlsbad). In addition to the Potůčky station there is also a 1932 stop -scale between the inn and the village tavern dirt Ziegenschacht (see railway Carlsbad Johann George town).

There are regular buses on Pernink ( Bärringen ) Ostrov nad Ohri and ( Ostrov ) to Karlovy Vary ( Carlsbad).

Since 30 June 1991, the 1946 closed pedestrian and railway border crossing is open again after Johann George Town, since 16 January 2008 for vehicles up to 3.5 t. Through the town leads the 1995 created Anton -Günther - way.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages Potůčky Potůčky ( Breitenbach ) and Stráň ( Ziegenschacht ). To Potůčky also includes the settlements Haje ( Zwittermühl ) Luhy ( Young stallion) and Podlesí ( Streitseifen ) and the waste places of Pila ( Brettmühl ) Pískovec ( Schwimmiger ) Smolné Pece ( Pechöfen ) and Totenbach.

Those associated with the location of

• Caspar Wittich, hammer mill owners
• Otto Homes, writer, spent his childhood and youth here