Half mile

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The half mile settlement

Half mile is a former district of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. in the Saxon Ore Mountains . The small settlement consists of four houses.

Border crossing at half mile

location

Half a mile is located in a remote location between extensive forests on a plateau at an altitude of 900 m not far from the Mückenberg and at the Halbmeiler Wiesen nature reserve. The place is located directly on the German - Czech border. The border separates the German half mile from the former Bohemian settlement Halbmeil ( Milov ).

Explanatory board erected by the Erzgebirgszweigverein Breitenbrunn

history

After the assignment of the southern part of the Barony of Schwarzenberg by Duke Maurice of Saxony after 1546, this area remained in Saxony, but the actual frontier was at that time not yet determined. In 1548, a mine on the Mückenberg was mentioned for the first time in the mining regulations of King Ferdinand of Bohemia. The mining was quite productive, so that there was a dispute between the sovereigns about this now interesting area. From 1557 to 1558 the final border was drawn, with a straight line connecting the sources of the Mückenbach and the Großer Ortsbach and the mouth of the Breitenbach as the new border. This cut the mining settlement on the Mückenberg into a Bohemian and a Saxon part.

In 1582 the name "uf der halben Meil" was first found , presumably because the place is about half a Saxon mile (approx. 4.5 km) from Breitenbrunn.

The settlement of Halbmeil ( Milov ) on the Czech side, like many other Bohemian border towns, was abandoned after 1945 and demolished in 1953. In 2013 the St. Nepomuk chapel was rebuilt there.

tourism

A pedestrian border crossing on Joachimsthaler Straße not far from Himmelswiese enables hikers, cyclists and skiers to cross the border. The private visitor mine “God give happiness with joy” existed in the village. A popular destination is the Czech restaurant “Roter Fuchs” in neighboring Streitseifen , a district of Potůčky .

In 2004 the Erzgebirgszweigverein Breitenbrunn set up historical explanatory boards (see photo).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 18 ″  N , 12 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  E