Stráž u Chebu
Stráž u Chebu (German Wies ) is a desert in the Czech Republic. It is located five kilometers southwest of the city center of Cheb on the cadastre of Háje u Chebu in the Okres Cheb . Until 2007 there was the Svatý Křiž border crossing on the site of the village.
geography
Stráž u Chebu was located directly on the German-Czech border on the southern edge of the Svatokřížský les ( Heiligenkreuzwald ) in the Fichtel Mountains . The village stretched to the left of the border brook Lohbach / Tříselný potok along the road from Cheb to Waldsassen . The Siechenteich is located at the southwest exit of the village. To the north rises the U Rozcestí ( Zwiesel , 541 m), in the southeast of the U Lomu (515 m), south of the Mühlbühl (550 m), in the southwest of the Nachtbühl (515 m), the Pískoviště (516 m) and the Platte ( 577 m) and in the northwest of the Šlingova Mýť ( Schlindelhau , 549 m).
Neighboring towns were ground and Dolní Pelhřimov ( Unterpilmersreuth ) in the north, Svatý Kříž ( Heiligenkreuz ), Podhrad ( Pograth ) and Hechtova MYT ( Hechthau ) in the northeast, Grégrův Dvur ( Gregerhof ) Under Wildenhof and Nový Hrozňatov ( Neukinsberg ) to the east, Slapany ( Schloppenhof ) and Krásná Lípa ( Schönlind ) in the southeast, Egerteich , Schloppach and Hundsbach in the south, Naßgütl, Wolfsbühl, Groppenheim and Schottenhof in the southwest, Münchenreuth in the west as well as Pechtnersreuth , Šlingova Mýť ( Schlindelhau ) and Horní Pelhřimov ( Oberpilmuth ) in the north.
history
After the Cheb citizen Barbara Stölzer 1748 on a tree in the meadows ( V lukách had Attach) to the state road from Eger to Waldsassen before the Bavarian border a portrait of the Flagellation, this was fast becoming a place of pilgrimage. In 1750 the Eger magistrate had a chapel and a rectory built. Just a year later, the chapel was expanded to become the pilgrimage church of the Flagellation of the Savior.
Several houses were built near the church; the small settlement of Wiesen was first mentioned in 1782 . The infirmary on the border belonged to the property of the infirmary located in the forest between Wiesen and Heiligenkreuz. Evidence shows that Wiesen has had its own school since 1797. The settlement was later referred to as Wies . Between 1875 and 1905 the old infirmary was used as an orphanage. The Wies parish included the villages of Schönlind, Schloppenhof and Heiligenkreuz as well as several remote farms.
In the 19th century Wies grew into a small village, from 1891 it was part of the Gehaag municipality in the district and judicial district of Eger . In 1899 a new school was built in Schloppenhof, which the Wieser children also attended. In 1905 the city of Eger had a new orphanage built in Wies. The local excursion business enjoyed great popularity, the Cheb snipers used it as a place for their celebrations.
In 1930 Wies consisted of 15 houses and had 104 inhabitants. 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 the Second World War , Wies returned to Czechoslovakia and the German-speaking population was expelled. In 1948 the village was given the Czech name Stráž u Chebu. In the same year the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany was closed. In the course of the construction of the Iron Curtain , the village was demolished from 1949, with the exception of the church and the inn. The last two buildings were blown up in 1952 by the border guard . The last ruins of Wies were removed in 1958.
A memorial for the victims of the Iron Curtain ( Památník obětem železné opony ) was unveiled on June 27, 2006, northeast of Wies, on the road to Cheb . It was designed by the sculptor Antonín Kašpar and the architect Jaroslav Šusta on behalf of the city of Cheb.
Pilgrimage Church Flagellation of Christ
The timbered, single-nave building with a hipped roof was built in 1750. In the choir behind the altar there was a tree trunk from which the pilgrims took shavings home with them because of the attributed healing powers. As a result, the pilgrimage site was soon threatened with losing the relic. Finally, the remains of the trunk were protected from pilgrims' access in a sheet metal container. The spring located under the church was also said to have healing properties against blindness.
After the iron curtain had been erected, workers employed in the construction of the border fortifications took the crucifix out of the church in autumn 1951 and threw it into a fire set up at the border barrier. After the figure of Christ did not burn, they hung it on the border fortification with a barbed wire loop. Members of the German border police recovered the charred torso and handed it over to the Waldsassen monastery basilica .
The church was blown up in 1952 by the border guard . Four panels with votive pictures from the church are in the museum in Franzensbad .
Border crossing Svatý Křiž - Hundsbach
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the road between Cheb and Waldsassen was reopened for cross-border traffic. On the site of the devastated village Stráž u Chebu, the Czechoslovak customs office Svatý Křiž with a restaurant was built in 1990.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Stráž u Chebu / Wies on www.muzeumcheb.cz ( Memento from July 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Pointed to zanikleobce.cz
- Stráž u Chebu / Wies on the website of the Krajina za Školou project
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ N , 12 ° 20 ′ E