Horní Blatná (german: Bergstadt Platten) 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
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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
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 400 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as
urban monument zone.
History
The settlement of the area was closely connected with
tin
Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from la, stannum) and atomic number 50. Tin is a silvery-coloured metal.
Tin is soft enough to be cut with little force and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, t ...
mining, the origins of which date back to the end of the 15th century. Horní Blatná was founded as a mining town in 1532. In 1548, it was promoted to a royal mining town by Emperor
Ferdinand I and obtained various privileges.
The economic situation of the town was bolstered by opening of the
railway line Karlovy Vary–Johanngeorgenstadt in 1899.
According to the census of 1921, the town had the population of 2,163. 2,090 were Germans, 14 Czechoslovaks and 58 foreigners. Vast majority of the inhabitants were Roman Catholics, complemented by 62 Protestants and two people without religion.
From 1938 to 1945 it was 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
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. After World War II, the town was returned to Czechoslovakia and the local German population
expelled.
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Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Karlovy Vary District
Towns in the Ore Mountains
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