Háje (Cheb)

Háje
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Karlovarský kraj
District :	Cheb
Municipality :	Cheb
Area :	1396.5491 ha
Geographic location :	50 ° 4 '  N , 12 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '40 "  N , 12 ° 22' 28"  E
Height:	490  m nm
Residents :	862 (March 1, 2001)
Postal code :	350 02
License plate :	K
traffic
Next international airport :	Karlovy Vary Airport

Háje (German Gehaag ) is a district of the city of Cheb in the Czech Republic.

geography

Geographical location

Háje is located immediately south of the city of Cheb and is separated from it by the railway corridor. The district forms the cadastral district of Háje u Chebu . The former border crossing at Svatý Kříž lies to the southwest.

Local division

After Cheb and Dřenice, Háje u Chebu is the third largest cadastral district in the city of Cheb. It also includes the settlements of Svatý Kříž ( Heiligenkreuz ) and Slapany ( Schloppenhof ) as well as the deserted areas of Krásná Lípa ( Schönlind ) and Stráž u Chebu ( Wies ).

history

Gehaag was in the 13th century a bailey of the imperial castle of the Staufer in Eger and under the noble Paulsdorf family a fief of the imperial city of Eger. When the brothers Eckhard, Albrecht and Walther Notthracht von Wildstein sold a tithe "zu Hag" to the nuns of the Poor Clare monastery in Eger in 1297 , mention was made of the settlement of peasant families who were subject to forced labor and who had to pay taxes. In 1322, King Ludwig IV of Bavaria pledged Gehaag with a large part of the Egerland in the northern district to his brother-in-law, King John of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg for 20,000 silver guilders. The deposit was never redeemed and Gehaag has belonged to Bohemia ever since . The place name changed over the centuries from Hag (1297), von der Hage (1320 and 1330), Hage (1392), Hag (1414 to 1503), Gehag (1714), Gehaag (1843), Gehag vulgo Koch (1847) , Gehaag or Kooch (1881, probably a dialectic amalgamation from Haag to Hoog and Kooch) and after 1945 to Czech Haje u Chebu.

After the end of serfdom and the corvee by the emancipation of 1848 the community Gehaag included in 1851 the places Heiligenkreuz, Schloppenhof, Schönlind, meadows and farmsteads Schlindelhau, Hechthau, Gregerhof and Wildenhof. Gehaag went to school in Wies and parish with a small pilgrimage church. Until the railway was built in 1880, Gehaag was a farming village whose clay and clay pits were used in a brick factory. In 1897 Johann Niklas Sölch, whose grandson Johann Soelch was rector of the University of Vienna, bought a farm in Gehaag, which was sold again after his death. After 1880 the village of Gehaag became a suburb of Eger with inexpensive building land. A Kathreiner malt coffee factory and settlements for working people with around 100 houses on the border with the town of Eger were built.

In 1930 Gehaag in Czechoslovakia with the towns of Markhausen , Fischern , Liebeneck , Pirk, Rathsam , Unterkunreuth belonged to the Mühlbach parish and had 788 Catholic and 23 Evangelical Lutheran believers who had been named since the Emperor Joseph II's patent of tolerance from 1781 Religious community were recognized again. The Czech place name Háje was introduced in 1924. From 1938 to 1945 Gehaag belonged to the district of Eger in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of the German Empire. After the end of the Second World War in May 1945 Gehaag returned to Czechoslovakia and the German residents of the village were expropriated and expelled on the basis of the Beneš decrees . As expellees , they found refuge in places near the border in the Upper Palatinate and the rest of Bavaria . In 1939 Gehaag had 1,368 residents in 493 households, in 1947 there were 581 residents. In 1976 it was incorporated into Cheb . In 1991 Háje had 793 inhabitants. In the 2001 census, 862 people lived in 236 houses.

Gehaag castle and fiefdom

The owners of the feudal estate "von der Hage" changed in quick succession. In 1369 one was named Franz von Gehag. In 1442 Gehaag was burned down by the Hussites on their retreat from Nuremberg to the Fockenfeld manor they plundered and the looted and devastated Waldsassen monastery and other places in the Stiftland and Egerland . In 1442 the Eger patricians Juncker von Oberkunreuth acquired the Gehaag fiefdom, then the Schmiedl von Seeberg. After the Landshut War of Succession , imperial mercenaries set fire to the houses in Hag in 1526. Owners of the castle and the Gehaag estate in the 16th century were the Eger patricians Schmiedl von Seeburg, the Grambs and, until 1631, the Pachelbel, who from June 18, 1610 had the title of “von Gehag” through this estate and during the Thirty Years' War and the re-Catholicization of the city of Eger and the surrounding area because of their evangelical confession in 1631 went as exiles to Wunsiedel in Franconia. The city of Eger was Evangelical Lutheran from around 1550 to 1631 and became Roman Catholic again after 1631. The Gehaag estate was acquired by the Eger patrician Werndl von Lehenstein. Swedish Protestant troops destroyed Gehaag castle in 1645, the remains of which were removed. After 1649 Gehaag was owned by Colonel Ernst Ottowalsky von Streitberg. Gehaag Castle is said to have stood at the later Gehaag farm No. 3 and near the later brickworks of the town.

Personalities

Sons of the place

• Johann Georg Sölch (1852–1934), director of the Austrian school book publisher

Personalities who have worked in this place

• Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag (1599–1649), mayor of Eger and exile in Wunsiedel

literature

• Eger homeland. History of a German landscape in documentations and memories, publisher: Egerer Landtag eV Amberg in the Upper Palatinate 1981, pages 346 and 347 with an overview sketch from 1945 and a list of the house owners; ibid .:
• Local history of the parish of Wies, destroyed at the end of the Second World War as a border town in the Iron Curtain restricted area to Bavaria, pages 515 and 516;
• Local history of the parish Mühlbach (Pomezi nad Ohri) pages 392 to 395.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Haje-u-Chebu
2. ↑ Sölch lineage from Zettendorf in Böhmen, German Gender Book Volume 214, 2002, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn, page 1015.