Větrov Castle
The "castle" Větrov (German Villa Jäger ) is a villa in the municipality of Krásná in Okres Cheb in the Czech Republic . It was built in 1856 for the entrepreneur Georg Jäger and is now used as a hotel.
geography
The villa is located 150 m west of the road from Aš to Hranice in the settlement Větrov in the valley of the Widembach, a left tributary of the Ašský potok (Äsch), in the Ašská vrchovina . The Háj ( Hainberg , 758 m nm) rises to the southeast .
Surrounding places are Smrčina in the north, Marak in the northeast, Dolní Paseky in the east, Aš in the south, Krásná in the southwest, Ängerlein and Černý Luh in the west and Kamenná in the northwest.
history
In the lower valley of the Widembach there was only the Fuchsmühle or Schützenlohmühle until the middle of the 19th century. Below the mill, the "Sorger Straße" crossed the valley in serpentines. At the mouth of the brook there were two other mills on the Äsch, the Jäckelmühle (with a whitewashing mill) and the Rothen Mühle (with a whitewashing mill and a drapery fulling).
In the years 1852 to 1853, the Unterschönbach dye works owner Georg Jäger had a new dye works built below Sorger Strasse in the Widembach Valley. In 1856 Jäger had a representative villa built for his large family above the Fuchsmühle. The physicist Gustav Jäger was one of Georg and Johanna Jäger's 13 children .
Opposite the factory, the "Jägerhaus" inn was built in the 1890s on Sorger Strasse on the grounds of the Sorg estate . In 1914, the Jäger dye works became part of the United Ascher Färbereien GmbH, which was converted into a public limited company in 1922.
After the end of the Second World War, the Jäger family was expropriated and expelled in 1946. The nationalized dye works later became part of the TOSTA Aš company; the factory owner's villa served as a children's home. After the Velvet Revolution, the factory was shut down and blown up on June 27, 2013. The Villa Jäger was given a new use as a hotel.
Building
The villa was built in the English neo-Renaissance style as a factory owner's residence. The outer skin consists of unplastered quarry stone masonry,
In the second half of the 20th century it housed a children's home. The children's book author Markéta Zinnerová made the home in 1979 the setting of her later filmed youth novel Indiáni z Větrova ( The Indians of Větrov ). After the home was closed, the building was renovated between 2002 and 2005 and converted into a castle hotel.
Web links
- Website of the Větrov Castle Hotel
- History of the United Ascher dyeing works on asch-boehmen.de
- Video of the demolition of the former dye works Hunters in Větrov
- Description of the inn "Jägerhaus" with photos of the inn as well as the dye works and Villa Jäger
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 15 - Elbogen Circle , 1847, p. 371
- ↑ http://www.obeckrasna.cz/index.php/obecni-urad/historie-obce
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 54.9 ″ E