Doubrava (Aš)

Doubrava
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Karlovarský kraj
District :	Cheb
Municipality :	Aš
Area :	383 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 16 ' N , 12 ° 14' E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '38 " N , 12 ° 14' 20" E
Height:	520 m nm
Residents :	119 (2011)
Postal code :	352 01
License plate :	K
traffic
Street:	Aš - Bad Elster

Doubrava ( German green ) is a district of the city of Aš in the Czech Republic .

geography

Doubrava is located two kilometers south of Bad Elster on the border with Germany in the Okres Cheb . The location is on the left bank of the White Elster in the Elster Mountains . To the north rises the Wolfsberg (596 m), in the northeast the Reuther Höhe (602 m), east the Strážný (628 m) and the Plattenberg (683 m), in the south the Vyhlídka (678 m), southwest the Háj (757 m) ) and to the west of Kopaninský vrch (645 m).

Neighboring towns are Bad Elster in the north, Reuth, Sohl and Schwarzenbrunn in the north-east, Raun in the east, Dolní Paseky in the south, Aš, Marak and Krásná in the south-west, Kopaniny in the west and Studánka and Kessel in the north-west.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1395 as "Grunne bey Neitperg". A little later it passed from the von Neuberg family to the Zedtwitz family .

During the Habsburg monarchy, the community belonged to the judicial district of Asch or district of Asch .

After the Munich Agreement , Doubrava was added to the German Empire and belonged to the Asch district until 1945 .

Population development

year	population
1869	845
1880	819
1890	845
1900	985
1910	992

year	population
1921	895
1930	808
1950	257
1961	180
1970	141

year	population
1980	133
1991	89
2001	94
2011	119

Culture and sights

Zedtwitzschlösschen , it was used as a restaurant in the meantime
Grave place of the Zedtwitz family in the cemetery, it is in a desolate condition
Mineral spring with fountain pavilion
Open-air museum: oldest paper mill in the Ascher Ländchen