Krásná (german: Schönbach bei Asch) is a municipality and village in
Cheb District
Cheb District ( cs, okres Cheb) is a district (''okres'') within the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Cheb. It is the most western District in the Czech Republic.
List of municipalities
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in the
Karlovy Vary Region
The Karlovy Vary Region or Carlsbad Region ( cs, Karlovarský kraj, German: ''Karlsbader Region'') is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the westernmost part of its historical region of Bohemia. It is named after ...
of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is the westernmost municipality of the country.
Administrative parts
The village of Kamenná is an administrative part of Krásná.
Geography
Krásná is located about northwest of
Cheb
Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře.
Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German-s ...
. It lies a salient region call AÅ¡ Panhandle on the border with
Germany
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. The
westernmost point of the Czech Republic is located in the municipality, at .
Krásná is situated in the
Fichtel Mountains. The highest point is the hill Å tÃtarský vrch at .
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 House of Zedtwitz is the name of an old and distinguished German and Czech noble house which originated from Franconia, Germany.
History
The family first appeared in a written document in 1235 and later in 1288 where progenitor Berthold v ...
family. This noble house controlled the whole of the AÅ¡ 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
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was opened, although it is no longer in use. The castle was torn down in the 1950s.
After
World War II
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, because of the
buffer zone, several villages in the municipality (Å tÃtary, 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 villages of Krásná and Kamenná separated and created a new municipality.
Demographics
Transport
The train station ''AÅ¡-pÅ™edmÄ›stÃ'' is located near the village beyond the municipal border. A bus stop is also located in the municipality.
Notable people
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Albin Dötsch (1872–1922), Austro-Hungarian politician
References
External links
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Villages in Cheb District