Stráž u Tachova

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Stráž (New Town)
Stráž
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Stráž u Tachova (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Plzeňský kraj
District : Tachov
Area : 5397.637 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 40 '  N , 12 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '9 "  N , 12 ° 45' 52"  E
Height: 448  m nm
Residents : 1,164 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 348 05 - 348 06
License plate : P
traffic
Railway connection: Domažlice – Tachov
structure
Status: Městys
Districts: 11
administration
Mayor : Karel Fišpera (as of 2007)
Address: Stráž 1
348 02 Bor u Tachova
Municipality number: 561207
Website : www.obecstraz.cz

Stráž (German Neustadtl ) is a minority town with 1164 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the Czech Republic . It is located 5 km south of Bor at an altitude of 448 m above sea level. M. at the Úhlavka .

history

The first mention of Neustadtl comes from the year 1331. As a chamber town, it was subject to the royal castle Přimda (German Castle Pfraumberg ). On August 23, 1331, John of Bohemia granted the place privileges that corresponded to those of the royal cities. In 1429 Neystatl came into the possession of the Schwanberger . In the town fire of 1876 more than half were destroyed and 118 houses were destroyed. In 1910 Neustadtl received a railway connection to the cities of Tachau and Taus . In 1938 the place had 218 houses, of the 976 inhabitants 926 were Germans, 31 Jews and 19 Czechs. Today there are 720 inhabitants without the districts.

Neustadtl belonged to the Kingdom of Bohemia as part of Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War in 1918 . After the collapse of the dual monarchy, it belonged to Czechoslovakia . After the Munich Agreement , the place was the German Reich slammed and belonged until 1945 to the district Tachov in the administrative district of Eger the Reich District of Sudetenland .

After World War II in 1945, on the basis of the Beneš decrees , the German inhabitants were expelled. At the same time, the place was settled with new Czech citizens from other parts of the country.

Since 2007 the place has the status of a Městys again .

Attractions

Market Square with Church of St. Wenceslas and statue of St. John of Nepomuk

The most important architectural monument is the Wenceslas Church on the market. It was built in 1384 and has Romanesque and Gothic features. The church's furnishings were lost in the fire of 1876 and were renewed in 1878. The baroque church of John the Baptist in the cemetery was built in 1734.

In the east of the city on the road to Bor (German Haid ) is the Heiliggeistkirche, built in 1525, by a healing spring. The original chapel was enlarged into a pilgrimage church over time and renovated in the baroque style in 1915.

There are some baroque houses in the center of the village. There are also stone crosses and a neo-Gothic Maria Lourdes Chapel from 1899.

North-west of the village towards Souměř (German Zummer ) on a hill is the listed Jewish cemetery . Jews settled in Stráž as early as the 14th century and founded this cemetery in 1330. Stráž is one of the oldest Jewish settlements in western Bohemia.

Personalities

The Bavarian sculptor Johann Christoph Artschlag settled in Neustadtl and created, among other things, the statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk below the Wenceslas Church in Neustadtl and the main altar of the Nikolaikirche in Haid .

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Edmund Weil (April 16, 1879; † June 15, 1922 in Prague), physician and bacteriologist, discoverer of the Weil-Kafka and Weil-Felix reactions

Community structure

The municipality of Stráž consists of the districts Bernartice ( Pernatitz ), Bonětice ( Großwonetitz ), Bonětičky ( Kleinwonetitz ), Borek ( Wurken ), Dehetná ( Dehenten ), Jadruž ( Godrusch ), Olešná ( Elsch ), Souměř ( Strachowitz ), Strachowitz ), Stráž and Valcha ( Walk ). Basic settlement units are Bernartice, Bonětice, Bonětičky, Borek, Dehetná, Jadruž, Olešná, Souměř, Strachovice and Stráž.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Bernartice u Stráže, Bonětice, Bonětičky, Borek u Tachova, Dehetná, Jadruž, Olešná, Souměř, Strachovice u Bernartic and Stráž u Tachova.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/561207/Straz
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ↑ home Atlas of former political district Tachov-Pfraumberg home county Tachau eV
  4. ↑ Renata Klodnerová: Synagogy v Plzeňském kraji (English: The Synagogues in the Pilsen region), 2011, Prague, Charles University, Hussite Theological Faculty, Jewish Studies, Diploma thesis (Czech), p. 49
  5. ↑ Části obcí: Územně identifikační registr ČR. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Základní sídelní jednotky: Územně identifikační registr ČR. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Katastrální území: Územně identifikační registr ČR Retrieved December 26, 2019 .

Web links

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