Libá

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Libá
Coat of arms of Libá
Libá (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Karlovarský kraj
District : Cheb
Area : 2663.5741 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 8 '  N , 12 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '43 "  N , 12 ° 13' 47"  E
Height: 508  m nm
Residents : 766 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 351 31
License plate : K (old CH)
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 2
administration
Mayor : Bc. Miloš Vondrášek (as of 2018)
Address: Libá 220
350 02 Cheb 2
Municipality number: 554618
Website : www.obec-liba.eu
Location of Libá in the Cheb district
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Libá (formerly in Czech Libštejn , German Liebenstein) is a municipality in the Czech Republic and belongs to the Okres Cheb .

geography

Geographical location

The place is located at 508 m above sea level at the northeastern foot of the Fichtelgebirge along the Libský creek . To the west lies the local mountain Blatná (Plattenberg; 640 m) in the Smrčiny nature park (Fichtelgebirge). Neighboring towns are Podílná in the north, Táborská in the northeast, Hůrka in the east and Hohenberg an der Eger in the south. The border crossing for hikers Dubina / Hammermühle leads to Hohenberg. The next larger town is Selb , about eight kilometers as the crow flies northwest over the mountain ridge , to which the “Ackerl” for hikers and cyclists leads.

Community structure

The community Libá consists of the districts Hůrka (Riehm) and Libá (Liebenstein). Basic settlement units are Dobrošov (Tobiesenreuth), Dubina (Eichelberg), Hůrka, Libá, Lužná (Sorghof), Pomezná (Markhausen) and Rybáře (Fischern). The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts Dobrošov u Libé , Dubina , Hůrka u Libé , Libá , Lužná u Františkových Lázní , Pomezná and Rybáře u Libé .

Neighboring places

Hazlov (Haslau)
Same Neighboring communities Poustka (Oed)
Hohenberg an der Eger , Schirnding Cheb (Eger) Františkovy Lázně (Franzensbad)

history

The place was first mentioned in 1264 when Ruprecht von Neu Liebstein was a judge in Eger . Liebenstein was created in the valley below the castle of the same name from the 13th century. In 1292 the local noble family of the Liebensteiner died out and the rule was given to the Pressbergers. In 1298, the Waldsassen monastery acquired Dietrich von Pressberg's property. In the 14th century, the owners, which included the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg , changed several times. In 1426 the Zedtwitzer on Neuberg acquired the rule from Hans von Sparneck . Until 1945, Liebenstein was the seat of a Zedtwitzer line that was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1790 .

After the castle was devastated in the Thirty Years' War in 1647 by Swedish troops under Carl Gustav Wrangel and Arvid Wittenberg , reconstruction began in 1719. The complex was redesigned as a Rococo castle around 1770.

From the middle of the 19th century, Liebenstein belonged to the judicial district of Eger , which was part of the Eger district until the First World War .

After the Munich Agreement , the place was added to the German Empire and belonged to the district of Eger until 1945 .

After the Second World War, the German residents were expelled. The castle was nationalized and used by the Czechoslovak army , but it deteriorated. In the 1950s the place name was changed from Libštejn to Libá . With the construction of the border security systems during the Cold War, the villages and hamlets on the border were demolished.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Czechoslovak state no longer had any use for the run-down property and sold the castle to a private investor. After a third of the roof had been re-covered, the renovation that had begun had to be stopped in 1998 due to financial problems.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Libá Castle in 2014

Green spaces and recreation

In the south of the municipality lies the Rathsam nature reserve, which encompasses the area where the Röslau flows into the Eger up to the upper end of the Skalka dam . The ruins of the Pomezná fortress are also located there .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/554618/Liba
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/554618/Obec-Liba
  4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/554618/Obec-Liba
  5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/554618/Obec-Liba

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