Hradčany (Pomezí nad Ohří)
Hradčany , 1945–1948 Rotsam , (German Rathsam ) is a desert in the Czech Republic. It is located nine kilometers west of Cheb in the area of the municipality Pomezí nad Ohří in the Okres Cheb .
geography
Hradčany was located directly on the German-Czech border in the Eger Basin . The village was below the confluence of the Pomezní potok / Grenzbach on a river bend on the right bank of the Röslau / Reslava . The Egertal, flooded by the Skalka reservoir, extends to the northeast . The U Bažantnice (568 m) and the Výhledy (656 m) rise to the south-east . The Nuremberg – Cheb railway line and the I / 6 / E 48 road from Cheb to Schirnding run south, with the Pomezní rybník / Scheitelteich behind it .
Neighboring towns were Dobrošov and Pomezná in the north, Komorní Dvůr and Klest in the Northeast, Bříza and Pomezí nad Ohri in the east, Dolní Hraničná , Horní Hraničná and Pechtnersreuth the southeast, Seedorf in the south, Schirnding in the southwest, Raith Bach in the west and Hohenberg an der Eger , Fishermen and Rybáře in the northwest.
history
The village was one of the oldest colonization settlements in the Egerland and was first mentioned in 1242 under the name Ratsheim . When the imperial city of Eger was pledged by the Roman-German King Ludwig the Bavarian to the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg in 1322, Ratsheim was listed as part of the Eger imperial pledge. The Reich deposit was never redeemed and remained with Bohemia. Later, different noble families took turns as owners of Ratsam . In 1395 the village consisted of twelve farms. In 1424 there were three large farms, four medium-sized farmers and five small farmers in Ratsam . In 1462 the village was burned down by troops passing through during the Bavarian War and again in 1526. In 1499 the village was subject to Hohenberg Castle. During the Thirty Years War, Ratsam was burned down again in 1635 and rebuilt twenty years later. The gentlemen of Notthafft ranged advisable in the early 18th century as after fief to different owners on. On October 3, 1779, Emperor Joseph II visited the border village of Rathsam during his inspection of the fortress of Eger .
After the abolition of patrimonial rulings , Rathsam formed a district of the municipality Mühlbach in the district and judicial district of Eger from 1850 . At that time the village consisted of 15 properties and had 96 inhabitants. The parish was Mühlbach. In the middle of the 19th century, some farmers sank coal pits, but their operations were soon closed again due to unprofitability. The place remained dominated by agriculture, apart from the farms there were only three companies in 1900 with a grocer, an innkeeper and a tobacco dealer. In the same year the Eger Bridge was built near Markhausen, and a road connection from Markhausen to the Kaiserstraße south of the village between Eger and Nuremberg was established via Rathsam . In 1920 Rathsam became part of the newly formed community of Markhausen ; at that time the village consisted of 16 houses with 81 inhabitants. From 1931 Rathsam was supplied with electricity by the power station in the Markhausen mill. In the same year, an inn was built south of Rathsam on the highway in front of the German border. After the Munich Agreement , the village was added to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the district of Eger until 1945 . After the end of World War II , Rathsam came back to Czechoslovakia and was renamed Rotsam in 1945 ; the German-speaking population was expelled . In 1948 it was renamed again in Hradčany . In 1949, Hradčany was dissolved because of its close proximity to the border and then razed to the ground. The corridors of the extinct village were assigned to the municipality of Pomezí nad Ohří .
Today there is Wiesenland on the site of the extinct village. At the underpass of the former access road under the viaduct of the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line over the Pomezní potok, an information board reminds of the extinct village. The meandering landscape of the Reslava north of Rathsam up to the confluence with the Eger is protected as a Rathsam nature reserve.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Investigation of the Notthaffischen Afterlehen in Egerland, 1787
- ↑ http://hamelika.webz.cz/h97-11+12.htm
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ' N , 12 ° 15' E