Vysoká Pec (Karlovy Vary District)

Vysoká Pec ( German blast furnace ) is a municipality that belongs to the administrative community Nejdek ( Neudek ) in the Czech Republic.

Geography

Vysoká Pec lies at an altitude of 744 m N.M. in the western Erzgebirge. The site extends from the valley of the Rolava on Rudny Potok ( Trinksaifner Bach) upstream along the road to Rudné. The village belongs to Okres Karlovy Vary Region in the Carlsbad Region. Through the eastern part of Vysoká Pec lead the old trunk road from Leipzig to Karlovy Vary and in 1899 opened railway line Carlsbad Johann George Town, which has here a breakpoint.

History

The foundation is due to two blast furnaces, the Count Schlick was here in the late 16th century to create. The ( first mention was in 1590 ). These systems a scattered settlement, which consistently römisch. Catholic inhabitants were the parish after Trinksaifen arose.

The inhabitants operated until the 19th century mining by promoting hematite, and also charcoal and pitch extraction. The women, some in winter, the men made ​​of hand-made lace. Because of the altitude wheat cultivation was very difficult Agriculture. Grain and potatoes thrived on southern slopes. From the late 19th Jahrhundert.gab it earning potential in the three large factories Neudeker Wollkämmerei / worsted spinning, iron ( rolling ) and paper mill. In the blast furnace, a two-class elementary school was built in 1878, in 1932 received an extension. The German language dialect was pure Egerländerisch with the typical diphthongs. As a place to stay for holidaymakers, the Justin Klause, which was taken near one of the two former blast furnace developed. The name goes back to the owner of the building in the 20s of the 20th century; the previous building had burned in the possession of Louis Hochmuth family. 1931, blast furnace 161 houses and 786 German -speaking inhabitants. In 1939 there were 758 German. At the beginning of the expulsion of 1945/46, lived in blast furnace 698 persons; most of them have found a new home in Bavaria.

Community structure

The municipality Vysoká Pec consists of the districts Rudné ( Trinksaifen ) and Vysoká Pec ( blast furnace ), which also form also Katastralbezirke.

Attractions

• On blue marked path can be reached via Tisova ( Eibenberg ) of the 976 m high Tisovský vrch ( Peindlberg ), consists of the observation tower view of the western Erzgebirge and the place.