Lipová () 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 700 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Lipová consists of nine municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Lipová (321) *Dolní Lažany (28) *Dolní Lipina (33) *Doubrava (44) *Horní Lažany (35) *Mechová (46) *Mýtina (28) *Palič (92) *Stebnice (57)

Geography

Lipová is located about southeast 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 southwest 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 ...

, on the border with Germany. The northern part of the municipality lies in the

Cheb Basin 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 in 1945, the town was the centre of the German-speaking region known as Egerland ...

. The southern part extends into 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 ...

and the southeastern part into the

Upper Palatine Forest The Upper Palatine Forest ( or ''Böhmischer Wald''; , ) is a mountain range in Central Europe that is divided between the Czech Republic and Germany. It is a part of the larger Bohemian Massif and the German Central Uplands. Geography The ...

. The highest point is located on the southeastern municipal border, on the slopes of the Dyleň mountain, at above sea level. The northern municipal border is formed by the Jesenice Reservoir, built on the

Wondreb The Wondreb (; called Nikolausbach upstream, ) is a river in Germany and the Czech Republic, a right tributary of the Ohře River. It flows through Bavaria and Karlovy Vary Region. It is long. Etymology Both the German and the Czech name have th ...

river. Near the village of Mýtina is the Železná hůrka National Nature Monument with an extinct

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the ...

volcano.

History

The first written mention of Lipová is from 1473. In 1960, the municipalities of Lipová, Mýtina and Palič were merged.

Demographics

Transport

Lipová is located on the railway line

Plzeň Plzeň (), also known in English and German as Pilsen (), is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 188,000 inhabitants. It is located about west of P ...

–Karlovy Vary.

Sights

The village of Doubrava is a well-preserved set of half-timbered, timbered and brick buildings, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. They are an example of folk architecture typical for this region. For its value, the village is protected as a village monument reservation. For similar reasons, the village of Dolní Lažany is protected as a village monument zone. The Church of Saint Anne is located in Palič. It was built in the late Baroque style in 1751–1756. In the following years, it was rebuilt in the Neoclassical style into its present form.

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