Smolné Pece

Smolné Pece ( German Pechöfen ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers northwest of Karlovy Vary and Karlovy Vary belongs to Okres.

Geography

The place is located on the southern slopes of the Ore Mountains on the left side of the valley of the Rolava on a saddle along the road to Fojtov. To the east rises Mount Hutnický vrch ( 637 m). In Rolavatal the railway Carlsbad Johanngeorgenstadt runs with the breakpoint Nová Role zastávka.

Neighboring towns are Pozorka in the north, Nový Fojtov and Fojtov in the northeast, Děpoltovice in the east, in the southeast Mezirolí, Nová Role and Hamry in the south, and Rájec Kobelec in the west and Sucha in the northwest.

History

The first mention of the settlement Pechöfen in 1847 in the topographical description of the Loket circuit by Johann Gottfried summer. Its inhabitants lived on the charcoal and pitch production. Since 1872 the place in the political district Neudek was called village. 1881 was the local train from Chodau after Neudek; in the valley lay the hammer station houses. The track was in 1899 part of the Erzgebirge Semmering. Gepfarrt was unlucky yards after Tüppelsgrün, politically it formed a district of Voigtsgrün ( Fojtov ).

Today, tourism plays a major role in the city; many houses are used as holiday homes.

Reference

Both in German and Czech writings of the place very often with the much older and now defunct Smolné Pece ( Pechöfen or bad luck yards ) is confused with Potůčky, which was in the same region and was gepfarrt after mountain town plates. Similarly, information on the community site relate partly to the wrong location.