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39-725: Waldsassen is the northernmost municipality of the Upper Palatinate region. In the northeast, it borders the town of Cheb ( Eger ) in the Czech Republic . The historic tripoint of ducal Altbayern , the Franconian lands of Bayreuth , and the Bohemian Egerland lies near the village of Pechtnersreuth. The town is famous for the Waldsassen Basilica and Waldsassen Abbey , both built in

78-699: A Baroque style. The latter contains the much visited Abbey library, whose wood carvings were completed by Karl Stilp in 1726. Four km north of the town, on Glasberg hill, is the Chapel of the Trinity (Dreifaltigkeitskirche Kappl), built in 1689, and a popular pilgrimage destination because of its quirky architecture. The Cistercian Waldsassen Abbey was founded on 1 October 1133 by the Bavarian noble Margrave Diepold III of Vohburg . An Imperial abbey from 1214 onwards, it fell to Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt branch of

117-575: A final round of the Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship for three consecutive years from 1966 to 1968. On the rock in the northwest of the historic town centre lies Cheb Castle. It was founded around 1125 and was rebuilt into a Kaiserpfalz at the end of the 12th century. It is the only example of a Kaiserpfalz in the Czech Republic. At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the castle

156-527: Is in the Czech Republic, making it the fourth longest river in the Czech Republic . The German part of the river (including the border section) is 49.8 km (30.9 mi) long. The highest volume flow rate occurs in spring. The average volume flow rate at the mouth is 37.94 m³/s. The lower part of the river flows through areas with the lowest average precipitation in the Czech Republic (400–500 mm). The Ohře's drainage basin has an area of 5,606.1 km (2,164.5 sq mi). The area of

195-605: Is represented by the football club FK Hvězda Cheb . It plays in the 4th tier of the Czech football system. Its predecessor was the club FC Union Cheb, which played in the Czechoslovak and Czech First League from 1979 to 1996, but then was abolished due to financial reasons. The team play at the Lokomotiva Stadium, located on street U Stadionu . The Lokomotiva Stadium once held motorcycle speedway and hosted

234-589: Is the Schirdinger House. It is a Gothic house, built at the beginning of the 13th century and restored after the fire in the 15th century. The Renaissance reconstruction took place in 1622–1626. Today it houses a gallery and a café. Among the other valuable houses on the town square is the Town House, also known as Pachelbel's House or Juncker House. The house was first mentioned already in the 14th century. On 24 February 1634, Albrecht von Wallenstein

273-461: Is the main church of the town and the oldest late Gothic building. It was established as a three-naved Romanesque basilica in the 1220s, of which the western portal and the lower part of the tower remain in place. After the fire in 1270, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style, another reconstruction took place in the 1470s. After the fire of 1742, the tower was rebuilt with a Baroque cupola , according to

312-677: The 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye triggered civil unrest between the Sudeten German population and the new First Czechoslovak Republic , just as in the rest of the Sudetenland . In the interwar period, many ethnic Czechs came to the town with the boom of industry. During the Sudeten Crisis , the town was occupied by the Nazi German -sponsored Sudetendeutsches Freikorps paramilitary group. On 3 October 1938,

351-539: The Bavarian district of Upper Franconia in Germany, and through the Karlovy Vary and Ústí nad Labem regions in the Czech Republic. It is 304.6 km (189.3 mi) long, of which 256 km (159 mi) is in the Czech Republic, making it the fourth longest river in the country . The name is of Celtic or pre-Celtic origin. In the 9th century, it appeared as Agara . According to one theory, its meaning

390-571: The Fichtel Mountains ; the rest of the territory lies in the Cheb Basin , named after the town. The highest point is the hill Zelená hora at 637 m (2,090 ft) above sea level. The Ohře River flows through the town. There are two large reservoirs in the municipal territory: Skalka (northeast of the town and supplied by the Ohře) and Jesenice (southeast of the town and supplied by

429-659: The House of Wittelsbach under the rule of Count Palatine Otto II in 1465. The Palatinate rulers had the monastery dissolved in the course of the Protestant Reformation in 1571, whereafter the premises were used as tenements. Not until the 17th century new building arose in the vicinity, while after the Counter-Reformation , the abbey from 1661 onwards was resettled with Cistercian monks descending from Fürstenfeld Abbey . However, Waldsassen again

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468-663: The Schneeberg mountain. It flows to Litoměřice , where it enters the Elbe River at an elevation of 143 m (469 ft). The Ohře flows through the Fichtel Mountains in an eastward direction, through Lake Weissenstadt (Weißenstädter See) and through the towns of Röslau and Marktleuthen , and, after almost 50 km, reaches the Czech-German border near Hohenberg an der Eger . It then flows through

507-768: The Treaty of Eger was agreed upon, after Wenceslaus had failed to secure his interests in the town. In the 15th century, Cheb was one of the largest and wealthiest towns of Kingdom of Bohemia with 7,300 inhabitants. The town suffered severely during the Hussite Wars , during the Swedish invasion in the Thirty Years' War in 1631 and 1647, and in the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742. In 1634, during

546-687: The United States Army on 25 April 1945. After the end of World War II the region was returned to Czechoslovakia. Under the Beneš decrees and Potsdam Agreement of the same year, the German-speaking majority was expelled . In 1910, only 0.5% of the population were Czech. Until 1945, it was part of the Northern Bavarian dialect area. After World War II, due to the expulsion of ethnic Germans and resettlement of Czechs,

585-728: The Wondreb ). There are also several small fishponds, especially in the southern part of the municipal territory. Cheb has a humid continental climate ( Köppen : Dfb ), with average temperatures in January and February below freezing and an average temperature of 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) in December. The average summer temperature is around 17.3 °C (63.1 °F), and it is not uncommon to see days with temperatures above 30.0 °C (86.0 °F). The town enters spring in late April and winter in early October. The earliest settlement in

624-510: The Thirty Years' War, Albrecht von Wallenstein was killed here. In 1723, Cheb became a free royal town . The northern part of the old town was devastated by a large fire in 1809, and many middle-age buildings were destroyed. In 1757, the town's financial self-government was abolished for the sake of Austrian centralization. In 1848, the citizen's council demanded separation from Bohemia and reconstitution of its Landtag . The terms of

663-517: The area was a Slavic gord at what is now known as the Cheb Castle complex, north of the town centre. In 807 the district of today's Cheb was included in the new margraviate of East Franconia , which belonged at first to the Babenbergs , but from 906 to the margraves (marquis) of Vohburg . The first written mention of Cheb is from 1061. Děpolt II founded the castle on the site of

702-558: The country. Today the former monastery is owned by the town and is used as the venue of occasional concerts. The monastery also includes publicly accessible monastery garden. The monastery of the order of Poor Clares with the Church of Saint Clare was founded at the end of the 13th century next to the Franciscan monastery. In 1707–1709, it was demolished and built again according to the design of Christoph Dientzenhofer . The monastery

741-475: The design of the indigenous architect Balthasar Neumann . The top of the twin steeples were destroyed by bombardment at the end of World War II and restored in summer 2008. The church tower is open to the public as a lookout lower. The Franciscan monastery with the Church of the Annunciation was founded in 1256 and rebuilt after the fire in 1270. The church is one of the oldest Gothic hall churches in

780-592: The fall of the Iron Curtain , Cheb has also had cordial relationships with the neighbouring German towns of Waldsassen and Marktredwitz . Oh%C5%99e The Ohře ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈoɦr̝ɛ] ), also known in English and German as Eger ( German pronunciation: [ˈeːɡɐ] ), is a river in Germany and the Czech Republic , a left tributary of the Elbe River. It flows through

819-422: The gord around 1125. In 1149, Cheb was described as a fortified marketplace. Emperor Frederick Barbarossa acquired Cheb in 1167. In 1203, it was first referred to as a town. It became the centre of a historical region called Egerland . From 1266 to 1276, the town was property of King Ottokar II of Bohemia . The historic town centre was established after the fire in 1270. King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia held

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858-428: The historic region of the Czech Republic which was known until 1945 as Egerland . The river passes the towns of Cheb , ( German : Eger , like the river), Loket , Sokolov , Karlovy Vary , Klášterec nad Ohří , Kadaň , Žatec , Louny , Libochovice , Budyně nad Ohří and Terezín before flowing into the river Elbe at Litoměřice. The river is 304.6 km (189.3 mi) long, of which 256 km (159 mi)

897-644: The large Vietnamese community. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the Vietnamese community gradually established seven markets here, and even customers from Germany came to Cheb for cheap goods. Today, three Vietnamese markets operate here. The D6 motorway from Prague to Karlovy Vary and Cheb (part of the European routes E48 and E49 ) forks in Cheb and continues to the Czech-German border to

936-524: The lower storey is in Romanesque style, while the upper storey is Gothic . On the first floor, there are original capitals of marble columns, decorated with figurative scenes of angels with Bibles as well as lewd scenes. In the centre of the historic town centre is the Krále Jiřího z Poděbrad Square. One of the symbols of the Cheb architecture is a group of houses known as Špalíček . It is located in

975-402: The middle of the town square and dates from the 13th century. The bizarre complex of eleven houses consists of narrow, four and five-storey houses without a courtyard, divided by a 1.6 metres (5.2 ft) wide alley. They are mostly in the late Gothic style. The outline of the two blocks can still be seen on the oldest existing records of 1472. The most valuable burgher house on the town square

1014-525: The papal title of basilica minor in 1969. Seats in the town's assembly ( Stadtrat ) as of 2014 local elections: Waldsassen is twinned with: Cheb Cheb ( Czech pronunciation: [xɛp] ; German : Eger ) 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,

1053-857: The population significantly dropped. The current population includes a large group of Vietnamese people . Their families were invited to the country as guest workers during the Communist era . The pillars of Cheb's economy are mainly services and tourism, and there are no large companies here. The largest employer is the Town of Cheb. Only four industrial enterprises with 200–250 employees are based in Cheb: BWI Czech Republic (manufacturer of automobile parts), Nexans Power Accessories Czech Republic (manufacturer of components for conductors), Playmobil CZ (toys manufacturer), and Tritia (bakery). Many entrepreneurs and small traders come from

1092-569: The town in 1291–1304, then Albert I of Germany acquired the region. It wasn't until 1322 that Cheb became a permanent part of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown , when King John of Bohemia acquired it from Emperor Louis IV . The later local history was marked by continued resistance against incorporation into Bohemia. On 5 May 1389, during a Reichstag between King Wenceslaus IV and a group of Imperial Free Cities of southwest Germany ,

1131-599: The town is also served by the Cheb-Skalka station. Cheb Airport is located 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of the town centre. It is the second-oldest airport in the country and the oldest still existing. Cheb is known for its Cheb Violin Making School . Two faculties of the University of West Bohemia , pedagogical and economic, have a detached workplace in Cheb and open study programs there. The town

1170-511: The town was the centre of the German-speaking region known as Egerland . The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation . Cheb is formed by 19 town parts and villages: The first name of the town, documented in 1061, was Egire . It was a Latin name, which was derived from the Celtic name of the Ohře River Agara . The German name Eger

1209-543: The town was visited by Adolf Hitler ; shortly afterward Wehrmacht troops marched into the Sudetenland and seized control. From 1938 until 1945, the town was annexed to Germany and was administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland . The Gestapo and Ordnungspolizei operated a prison in Cheb, whose prisoners were subjected to forced labour . Cheb was liberated by the 97th Infantry Division of

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1248-400: The west (as E48) and to the north (as E49). Cheb is an important railway junction. The town lies on the railway line of national importance from Františkovy Lázně to Plzeň , Prague, Olomouc and Ostrava . Other railway lines that pass through the town are Prague– Chomutov –Cheb, Nuremberg–Cheb , Hof – Marktredwitz , Zwickau –Cheb and Cheb– Luby . In addition to the main railway station,

1287-576: Was secularised during the 1803 German Mediatisation . Part of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1806, the local economy, mainly porcelain and glassblowing industries, was boosted by the opening of the Wiesau–Cheb railway line in 1865. Prince Regent Luitpold vested Waldsassen with city rights in 1896. The monastery again became a priory of Cistercian nuns in 1863 and again achieved the status of an independent abbey in 1925. The monastery church received

1326-419: Was ' salmon river' (composed of the words ag , eg – 'salmon', and are , ara – 'flowing water'). Another theory suggests that the name was derived from agriā and meant a fast-moving, fast-flowing river. In the 12th century, Ohře was written as Egre , Oegre and Ogre . The Ohře originates in the territory of Weißenstadt in the Fichtel Mountains at an elevation of 752 m (2,467 ft), below

1365-447: Was abolished in 1782 and the buildings served various purposes. The Dominican monastery with the Church of Saint Wenceslaus was built in 1294–1296. The monastery was badly damaged and the church destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. The new Baroque church was built in 1674–1688. The monastery was dissolved in 1950. The church is still in use, the convent now serves cultural purposes. The early Baroque pilgrimage complex Maria Loreto

1404-520: Was founded in the village of Starý Hrozňatov (today just Hrozňatov). It was founded next to the Church of the Holy Spirit, which dates from 1557. It belongs to the most visited pilgrimage sites in the country. The complex was built in 1664 and extended in 1675–1683. The Stations of the Cross that leads to Maria Loreto was originally composed of twenty-nine stations. Cheb is twinned with: Since

1443-505: Was murdered here. Since 1873, the house serves as the town museum. The museum was later expanded to the neighbouring house. The Grüner House on the town square is a Gothic-Baroque house. It belonged to the well-known Wrendl family from 1591 until 1876, whose family coat of arms is above the entrance. When the house was owned by magistrate councillor Grüner in the first half of the 19th century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe frequently spent time here. The Church of Saints Nicholas and Elisabeth

1482-581: Was partially rebuilt into a Baroque fortress citadel. Although the castle is mostly a ruin, the torso of the palace, the defensive Black Tower and the Chapel of Saints Martin Erhard and Ursula. The Chapel of Saints Martin, Erhard and Ursula is a unique Romanesque-Gothic double chapel. It is the best preserved example of the Hohenstaufen architecture in Central Europe. The chapel has two storeys;

1521-524: Was then derived from the Latin name. The Czech name Cheb first appeared in the mid-14th century. The name is derived from the old Czech word heb (modern Czech oheb, ohyb ), which means "bend". It is related to bends of the Ohře River. Cheb is located about 38 kilometres (24 mi) southwest of Karlovy Vary , on the border with Germany . The northern and western parts of the municipal territory lie in

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