Kynšperk nad Ohří (; ) is a town in

Sokolov District Sokolov District () is a Okres, district in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Sokolov, Czech Republic, Sokolov. Administrative division Sokolov District is divided into two Districts of the Czech Republic#Mu ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 4,500 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Kynšperk nad Ohří consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Kynšperk nad Ohří (3,962) *Chotíkov (54) *Dolní Pochlovice (236) *Dvorečky (6) *Kamenný Dvůr (39) *Liboc (65) *Štědrá (39) *Zlatá (584)

Geography

Kynšperk nad Ohří is located about southwest of Sokolov 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 ...

. It is situated mostly 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 southeastern part of the municipal territory extends into the

Slavkov Forest The Slavkov Forest (formerly also Emperor's Forest; , ) is a highland and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the Karlovy Vary Region. Slavkov Forest is also the name of a protected landscape area, partially locat ...

and includes the highest point of Kynšperk nad Ohří at above sea level. The

Ohře The Ohře (), also known in English and German as Eger (), is a river in Germany and the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It flows through the Bavarian district of Upper Franconia in Germany, and through the Karlovy Vary Region ...

River flows through the town. North of the town is located Boží požehnání Lake, an artificial lake created during the revitalization of a former lignite mine.

History

The town was founded in 1232. The town's founding

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is the oldest preserved document of establishing a locality in the Czech Republic and is stored in the

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in Prague.

Demographics

Transport

The D6 motorway runs next to the town. Kynšperk nad Ohří is located on the main railway lines

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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

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 ...

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Sights

The main landmark of the town is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It was built in the Baroque style in 1721–1727 and belongs to the most significant Baroque monuments in the region.

Notable people

Caspar Buberl Caspar Buberl (1834 – August 22, 1899) was an American sculptor. He is best known for his American Civil War, Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the James A. Garfield Memorial, Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio (d ...

(1834–1899), American sculptor * Alfred Scharf (1900–1965), British art historian

Twin towns – sister cities

Kynšperk nad Ohří is twinned with: *

Himmelkron Himmelkron is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps ...

, Germany

References

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