The scattered settlement Svahová, surrounded by forests, is located about seven kilometers north of Jirkov on the Ore Mountains ridge on the northern slopes of the Farský vrch (799 m) on the right side above the valley of the Lužec ( Aubach ). To the northeast rise the Lesenská pláň ( Hübladung , 921 m) and the Lesná ( Charge , 911 m), in the east the Sommerleithe (818 m) and the Zámecký vrch ( Little Seeberg , 684 m) with the remains of the Nový Žeberk Castle , southwest the Legina (770 m), in the west of the Kohoutí vrch ( Hahnhübel , 844 m) and the Mezihořský vrch ( Beerhübel , 916 m) and in the northwest of the Blahutov (854 m). The Lužec brook, also known as Nivský potok, rises to the northwest of the village.
Neighboring towns are Rudolice v Horách and V Díře in the north, Lesná in the northeast, Červená Jáma in the east, Pyšná and the forest house Aumühle in the southeast, Boleboř and Orasín in the south, Mezihoří in the southwest, Zákoutí in the west and Kalek in the northwest.
Chapel in Svahová
history
The settlement was probably founded shortly after 1554 by the owner of the Rothenhaus estate , Christoph von Carlowitz , as a logging settlement for the St. Christoph alum hut he built near Görkau and the alum mine of the same name. In addition to other privileges, Carlowitz granted the miners and smelterers who were called in from Saxony , the right to mine alum shale in two forest areas of his rule. The first written mention of the Newen House estate was made in 1563 in the Kaadener Kopialbuch in a document copy as part of the Landtäflischen estate of St. Christoph. In 1577 Carlowitz sold most of his property to his stepson August von Gersdorff . However, he kept the alum hut and the associated St. Christoph alum plant as well as the Nauenhaus woodcutter settlement . Mining rights were subsequently disputed between Georg Meinl, who had acquired the Alaunhütte with all its accessories after Carlowitz's death, and August von Gersdorff. In 1610 Meinl sold the forest area and in 1613 also the St. Christoph alum hut to the city of Görkau . During the Thirty Years War, the Neuhaus settlement fell into desolation. The place was not mentioned in the berní rula , the four families Kroh, Neumann and Herklotz, who are listed in Görkau by the hut , probably lived in Neuhaus, as the same names are entered in the Görkau tax register at Neuhaus in 1716. In 1713 14 inns in Neuhaus and the mining settlement Im Loch (V Díře) were mentioned. There are other traditions from the middle of the 18th century that describe Neuhaus as a settlement consisting of 18 houses in the middle of forests. At this time Neuhaus belonged again to the Rothenhaus rulership, which the city of Görkau and its possessions had repurchased. Georg von Buquoy built several glassworks between 1817 and 1819, including the Georgshütte in Neuhaus. The Georgshütte burned down in 1819 and was rebuilt in the same year. In addition, iron ore was mined in the vicinity of the village at that time, which was smelted in Hohenofen . Because of the mountainous location, agriculture played only a subordinate role, mostly pasture farming. The school and pastor's location was Göttersdorf .
After the abolition of patrimonial Neuhaus formed a community in the Komotau District Commission from 1850. The place consisted of 32 houses and had 198 inhabitants. In 1868 the village was incorporated into Görkau and has remained with the city ever since. In the first half of the 20th century, Neuhaus transformed into a resort. A sports hotel, a ski jump, a gymnastics home and a mothers' convalescent home were built. On August 28, 1938, the Sudeten German politician Konrad Henlein was cheered by several thousand people in Neuhaus when he traveled to Rothenhaus to meet the British Lord Walter Runciman. After the Munich Agreement , the village was added to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Komotau district until 1945 . After the end of the Second World War Neuhaus came back to Czechoslovakia and the mostly German residents were expelled . In 1950, only 22 people lived in the 33 houses. The following year the village was renamed Svahová . The forest house of the same name south of Jindřichova Ves was named Nový Dům . 1964 was the change to Boleboř . In 1970 only three houses in Svahová were permanently used for residential purposes and the place had eleven inhabitants. The Czechoslovak President Antonín Novotný was one of the owners of the holiday homes . Around 1990 there were 47 holiday homes in Svahová. There is a ski lift at the descent to the Lužec valley. In 2001 the village consisted of 4 houses in which 8 people lived.
Czech Republic
