Pila (Potůčky)
Pila ( German Brettmühl ) was a district of Potůčky in Okres Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.
location
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Pila lay on the upper reaches of the black water at an altitude of approx. 775 m nm between Potůčky in the west and Luhy in the east.
history
The settlement goes back to a board mill that was operated as a sawmill until after 1945 . It was mentioned in a document as Bretmuhl in the 16th century . The mill with the associated residential and farmhouses belonged to that part of the Saxon rulership of Schwarzenberg that was ceded to the Kingdom of Bohemia after the Schmalkaldic War . The residents who remained Protestant had to adopt the Catholic faith or leave the country in 1654. Several residents crossed the border into the neighboring Electorate of Saxony and, as Bohemian exiles, were among the founders of Johanngeorgenstadt .
On July 18, 1748, the body of ten-year-old Maria Sylvia Stiehler found in Streitseifen in the forest near Brettmühl caused a sensation. After a judicial visitation, the eighteen-year-old Johann Adam Hahn from Brettmühl was identified as the perpetrator. The convict died in August 1749 by beheading and was buried next to the gallows. The church register of Platten reports on it in a memorandum.
The farmer Ludwig Korb and his wife Mathilde geb. Behr owned house number 6. In 1866 they had a small chapel with a belfry built in front of their house. This chapel with its prayer bell and 20 seats was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist . After a clergyman from the mountain town of Platten initially celebrated Holy Mass, the last owner Ludwig Keilhauer (from 1906) only held a service on St. John's Day. The small chapel had become a popular photo opportunity. The painter August Herrmann also recorded it on a painting that hung for a long time in the Sachsenhof hotel in Johanngeorgenstadt. The chapel, the board mill and all the houses in the small settlement, in which 83 residents lived in 1930, were demolished after the German population was expelled after the Second World War and the location was desolate.
In June 1906, therapeutic radioactive baths against rheumatism were administered at the Anna Michaelis colliery in Brettmühl. If one believed the advertising at the time, the radioactive source should also be suitable for drinking cures. The owners of the property on which the spring rose, Baron von Morsey-Picard, Dr. Hackländer and Johann Thumann from Kassel hoped to have created the beginnings of a spa and bathing resort. But their hope was not fulfilled. Other radium baths such as Oberschlema or Bad Brambach flourished, the Brettmühl, located away from the tourist streams, did not get beyond the first beginnings.
Development of the population
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Sport and tourism
In the 1920s, a generously designed outdoor pool with a large sunbathing lawn was built on the Schwarzwasser , which has become a very popular destination for the residents of the surrounding towns. This natural pool also became orphaned after 1946. The quarry stone masonry can still be clearly seen in the landscape today.
literature
- Homeland register of the Neudek district. Augsburg-Göggingen 1978, p. 246ff.
- Jörg Brückner , Kurt Burkhardt, Reinhart Heppner , Roland Stutzky: The Schwarzwassertal from the Fichtelberg to the Zwickauer Mulde in historical views. Horb am Neckar 1993, p. 19ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horní Blatná 14 | Porta fontium. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Horní Blatná 14 | Porta fontium. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869-2015. Český statistický úřad, December 18, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2016 (Czech).
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ' N , 12 ° 46' E