Krásná () is a municipality and village in

Cheb District Cheb District () is a Okres, district in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Cheb. It is the westernmost district of the Czech Republic. Administrative division Cheb District is divided into three Districts of ...

in the

Karlovy Vary Region The Karlovy Vary Region () is an administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the westernmost part of the country. It is named after its capital Karlovy Vary. It is known for spas, which include Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně. ...

of the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is the westernmost municipality of the country and in the Slavic-speaking world.

Administrative division

Krásná consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Krásná (518) *Kamenná (48)

Geography

Krásná is located about northwest of

Cheb Cheb (; ) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře River. Before the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, expulsion of Germans in 1945, the town was the centre of the G ...

and west of

Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary (; , formerly also spelled ''Carlsbad'' in English) is a spa town, spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 49,000 inhabitants. It is located at the confluence of the Ohře and Teplá (river), Teplá ri ...

. It lies a salient region call Aš Panhandle, on the border with Germany. The westernmost point of the Czech Republic is located in the municipality, at . Krásná is situated in the

Fichtel Mountains The Fichtel Mountains (, ; ) is a mountain range in Germany and the Czech Republic. They extend from the valley of the Red Main River in northeastern Bavaria to the Karlovy Vary Region in western Czech Republic. The Fichtel Mountains contain an ...

. The highest point is the hill Štítarský vrch at above sea level. Part of the Czech-German state border is formed by the stream Höllbach (Pekelský potok) and part is formed by its tributary, the brook Mähringgsbach (Úterský potok).

History

The first written mention of Krásná is from 1331 as a property of counts of Neuberg. Around 1400 Krásná was bought by the

Zedtwitz The Zedtwitz family is the name of an old and distinguished German noble family, which also belonged to the Bohemian nobility. The family originated in Franconia, Germany. History The family first appeared in a written document in 1235 and la ...

family. This noble house controlled the whole of the Aš region for almost 500 years. In 1642 a small castle was built here, but in 1828 it suffered a catastrophic fire. In 1898, a municipal brewery was opened, although it is no longer in use. The castle was torn down in the 1950s. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, because of the

buffer zone A buffer zone, also historically known as a march, is a neutral area that lies between two or more bodies of land; usually, between countries. Depending on the type of buffer zone, it may serve to separate regions or conjoin them. Common types o ...

, several villages in the municipality (Štítary, Újezd, Elfhausen and Nové Domy) were torn down and became ghost towns. Between 1976 and 1990, Krásná was one of the administrative parts of Aš, but in 1990, the villages of Krásná and Kamenná separated and created a new municipality.

Demographics

Transport

The railway line

Aš Aš (; ) is a town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Aš consists of nine municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Aš (11, ...

– Hranice runs through the municipality. Krásná is served by the train station ''Aš-předměstí'', located near the village beyond the municipal border, any by the ''Štítary'' stop.

Sights

Krásná is poor in monuments. The only protected cultural monument is a rural house from the second half of the 19th century.

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Geography

History

Demographics

Transport

Sights

Notable people

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