Sokolov (Sokolov District)
Sokolov ( German Sokolov, Czech Falknov nad Ohri until 1948 ) is a town in the Carlsbad Region in northwestern Bohemia. It is located 401 m above sea level. NN at the mouth of Zwodau in the Eger.
- 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 8.2 personalities associated with the place
History
Sokolov was first mentioned in 1279 and has a long history as a mining town. As ministeriales the Notthafft contributed to the culture of the region. Later noble families who were also possession of the castle, were those of Schlik and Nostic.
In 1870 Sokolov a station on the route Prague - Billed Carlsbad Eger Buštěhrad Railway. 1873 nor the branching branch line was taken after Graslitz in operation.
1872 gave the k.k. Department of Commerce the carbon factory owner JR Caton the Vorkonzession for Locomotiv railway from Sokolov about Lauterbach, Haberspirk, Cats Green, Mühlessen after Voitersreuth and after Haslau, an approximately linear east-west connection that, the line through the node Eger, especially in freight transport competition would have made.
After the First World War, the Cheb and Sokolov thus no longer belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, but to the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic.
The former Erzdekanatkirche was dedicated to the Holy Apostles Jacobus. The Archdeanery included in 1938 in the district of Sokolov Sokolov places, Grasset, Haselbach, King Werth, Upper -Reichenau, Prösau, Sheep, Tesch joke, sub -Reichenau, Wudingrün and the District Elbogen the place Albernhof.
During the time of National Socialism, a satellite camp of Flossenbiirg was established in Sokolov within sight of the houses, whose inmates were liberated in May 1945 by U.S. troops. A captain of the Division (" Big Red One" ) commanded in the sequence 14 citizens of the village, whose inhabitants protested that he knew nothing of the outside storage, plus off to recover in the camp encountered corpses, clothe and buried on the village cemetery. The infantryman Samuel Fuller, later became known as actor, screenwriter and director, these operations held with a 16 - mm camera.
The town of Sokolov had on December 1, 1930 11,381 inhabitants, on 17 May 1939 were 11,291 and on May 22, 1947 8,112 residents. Because of the Beneš decrees, most of the German population of Bohemia was expropriated in 1945 and sold. In 1948, the German -sounding name Falknov nad Ohri was in Sokolov ( " falcon " = Czech " Sokol " ) changed. By the end of 2002, Sokolov seat of the district administration of Okres Sokolov.
Coat of arms
Description: silver on a green Dreienberg a flight ready to right natural-colored falcon with a golden bell at the Golden Fang.
Boroughs
The town of Sokolov consists of the districts Hrušková ( Birndorf ) Novina (Green), Sokolov ( Sokolov ) and Vítkov ( Wudingrün ). Basic settlement units are Hrušková, K nemocnici, Ke stadionu, Nad Rybníkem, Nad zastávkou, Novina, Ovcarna ( sheep ), Pod pekárnou, Pod vodojemem, Průmyslový obvod, Před nádražím, Rekultivace dolu Antonín, Seifertova, Sokolovská, Sokolov - střed, U dolu Antonín, Vítkov, Za Za Hornickým domem and nádražím.
The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Hrušková, Novina u Sokolova, Sokolov and Vítkov u Sokolova.
Attractions
The main interesting buildings clustered around the Old Square ( Staré náměstí ). Information boards will report on the historical background.
- Castle Sokolov: The present form was the castle where alterations in the classical style in the 19th century. Today it houses the District Museum Sokolov and the city library.
- Historical City Hall: It is a Renaissance building from 1540, and served until the mid-20th century as the city hall. Today it has the corporate management of the mining company Sokolvská uhelná their headquarters
- Falkenbrunnen: On the dating from the 1717 Fountain of the legendary founder of the city, a falkenzüchtender knight with his dog and a falcon displayed.
- House of miners ( miners home ): The design of this house dates from a student of Adolf Loos, the architect Rudolf Wels. The exterior of this emerged in the years 1923/24, the building is decorated with a large eight -part relief on "A day in the life of a miner ." Here the urban cultural center is housed.
- St. Jacob's Church: The foundation of the church is the 13th century. The present Baroque church has a single nave with a west tower.
- Capuchin monastery of the Church: The monastery was founded in the 17th century serves as a concert hall today after renovations. The crypt of the Nostic family was renovated in 1999.
- Trinity Chapel: built in 1719 as a cemetery chapel, baroque in the years 1772-74 remodeling, including with frescoes by Elias Dollhopf. The chapel is now used by the Orthodox Church.
- Marian column
- Hill " Na Hardu " ( Hardhöhe ) with observation tower, east of the city center
Transport, industry and economy
Traffic
Rail traffic
Sokolov has a station on the electrified main line Chomutov - Cheb. In Sokolov branches off from this route, the cross-border branch line to Klingenthal from. Direct train connections with Cheb, Chomutov, Usti nad Labem, Prague and Zwickau.
The Sokolov Train is included ( express delivery of small consignments) into the system ČD Kurýr.
2008, the railway station on a train station has been renovated. The station building is still in the old state. A bus station is available next to the station.
Town bus routes
For the urban public transport, there are 6 bus lines that operate from 4:00 h to 23:00 h early.
A fundamental restructuring of bus it came to the timetable change on 1 July 2004 Before there were 14 lines that went to a very complicated plan. Individual lines drove partially different routes, the intervals were very irregular, and most lines had few rides on working days.
Industry
The most important operation is the mining company that operates the mining of lignite in the area Sokolov. With increasing exhaustion of the deposits, the focus of activities shifted more and more to the reclamation of the site.
Another important industrial operation Sokolov is the machine builder Sokolovská strojírna, a company founded in 1931, companies that emerged from the repairer of the brown coal mining company.
Twinning
- Saalfeld, Thuringia
- Schwandorf, Bavaria
Culture and Sport
- The football team FK Banik Sokolov plays in the second division.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Heinrich Rietsch (1860-1927), Czech musicologist
- David Hruska ( b. 1977 ), Czech ice hockey player
- January Kanka ( b. 1977 ), composer, trombonist and music educator
- František Dřížďal (born 1978 ), the Czech football player
- Lukáš Mensator ( born 1984 ), Czech ice hockey player
- Vladimír Darida (* 1990), the Czech football player
Personalities associated with the place
- Johann Habermann (1516-1590), pastor in Sokolov
- Karl May (1842-1912), German writer, in memory of his visit was a plaque attached
- Francis of Paula Schönborn (1844-1899), Cardinal and Archbishop of Prague, died here
- Rudolf Wels (1882-1944), architect of the local miners home
- Hans -Christoph Seebohm (1903-1967), German Federal Minister of Transport, spent many years in Sokolov to 1945, where his parents lived
- Samuel Fuller (1912-1997), American actor, screenwriter and director, turned here with a 16 - mm camera his first film, the material in Emil Weiss's documentation Sokolov: The Impossible. was processed ( about the events in the concentration camp Sokolov during the liberation in 1945 by the Americans ).
- Ernst Mosch (1925-1999), band composer and conductor of the original Egerlander Musicians