Bochov (german: Buchau) is a town in

Karlovy Vary District Karlovy Vary District or Carlsbad District ( cs, okres Karlovy Vary) is a district (''okres'') within the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is Karlovy Vary. List of municipalities Abertamy - Andělská Hora - ...

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

. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

Villages of Číhaná, Dlouhá Lomnice, Herstošice, Hlineč, Javorná, Jesínky, Kozlov, Mirotice, Německý Chloumek, Nové Kounice, Polom, Rybničná, Sovolusky, Teleč, Těšetice and Údrč are administrative parts of Bochov.

History

The first written mention of Bochov is from 1325, when it was promoted to a

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

. Owing to a majority of German speaking population, Bochov was occupied by the Nazi Germany as one of the

municipalities in Sudetenland The list below gives German names and Czech names of towns along with county names and other information in the Sudetenland from World War I through the era of World War II known as interwar Czechoslovakia. Southern Sudetenland {, class="wi ...

from 1938 to 1945.

Notable people

* Fanny Blatny (1873–1949), politician *

Karin Stoiber Karin Stoiber, née Rudolf (born 6 July 1943 in Buchau, Nazi Germany (now Bochov, Czech Republic)) was the spouse of the minister-president of Bavaria from 1993 to 2007. Karin Stoiber is the wife of the former prime minister of the state of Bavar ...

(born 1943), First Lady of Bavaria

References

Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Karlovy Vary District {{KarlovyVary-geo-stub