Stráň (Potůčky)

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Stráň (Potůčky) (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Karlovarský kraj
District : Karlovy Vary
Municipality : Potůčky
Geographic location : 50 ° 25 '  N , 12 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '8 "  N , 12 ° 43' 57"  E
Height: 761  m nm
Residents : 34 (2011)

Stráň ( German  goat pit ) is a district of the municipality Potůčky ( Breitenbach ) in the Czech Republic .

geography

The district is located in the Bohemian Ore Mountains south of Potůčky. Some of the few houses extend along the Breitenbach along the road II. Class 221, which was an important artery on the way to Karlovy Vary as the Plattener Pass until the 19th century . More houses are about 500 m further east on Kozí potok (goat stream ), where a large part of the population was settled before the expulsion of the German population after the Second World War.

history

Stráň in front of the Plattenberg (Blatenský vrch)
Potůčky zastávka in Stráň (goat pit) (2019)

The village, whose name presumably from Ziche be deduced from an outdated designation of the jaw, is mentioned in 1520, when William of Tettau here soaps - fief awards tin. After the Schmalkaldic War , the area came under the Bohemian Crown through the Prague Treaty (1546) with the southern part of the Saxon district office of Schwarzenberg .

Like everywhere else in this area, this town also lived from mining. In addition to the tin mining, some silver was also found, so that a silver smelter is mentioned in 1620. Tin was mined in the "Dorothea" mine between the beginning of the 17th century and the end of the 18th century.

In 1932, the town was granted by the above the dirt tavern located breakpoint Breitenbach (now Potůčky zastávka ) direct connection to the railway line Johanngeorgenstadt Carlsbad .

Development of the population

year population
1869 150
1880 178
1890 164
1900 240
1910 266
year population
1921 220
1930 212
1950 88
1961 50
1970 49
year population
1980 16
1991 17th
2001 12
2011 34

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Fröbe : Lordship and town of Schwarzenberg up to the 16th century [1150–1586] . Historical Society Schwarzenberg, Schwarzenberg 1930, p. 224 .
  2. Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869-2015. Český statistický úřad, December 18, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2016 (Czech).

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