Plesná (german: Fleißen) is a town in
Cheb District
Cheb District ( cs, okres Cheb) is a district (''okres'') within the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Cheb. It is the most western District in the Czech Republic.
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 1,900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Lomnička, Smrčina and Vackov are administrative parts of Plesná.
Geography
Plesná is located about north of
Cheb
Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře.
Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German-s ...
and west of
Karlovy Vary. It lies on the border with Germany, in the
Fichtel Mountains. The highest point is Bukový vrch, at above sea level.
History
The first written mention of Plesná is from 1185, when it belonged to
Waldsassen Abbey
Waldsassen Abbey (German: ''Abtei Waldsassen'') is a Cistercian nunnery, formerly a Cistercian monastery, located on the River Wondreb at Waldsassen near Tirschenreuth, Oberpfalz, in Bavaria, Germany, close to the border with the Czech Republic. ...
. In 1900, Plesná became a town.
Transport
There is the road border crossing ''Plesná /
Bad Brambach'' and railway border crossing ''Vojtanov / Bad Brambach''.
Sights
There are ruins of Neuhaus castle located in the southern part of the territory. It could be a mansion of
ministeriales
The ''ministeriales'' (singular: ''ministerialis'') were a class of people raised up from serfdom and placed in positions of power and responsibility in the High Middle Ages in the Holy Roman Empire.
The word and its German translations, ''Minist ...
of Plesná mentioned in 1197, but according to another source, it is a different mansion of unknown origin.
Notable people
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Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi
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František Nedvěd (1950–2010), weightlifter
Twin towns – sister cities
Plesná is
twinned with:
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Bad Brambach, Germany
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Eichenzell, Germany
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Erbendorf
Erbendorf () is a town in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) region of Germany. As of December, 2006, the town has a population of 5,341.
The following villages are incorporated into the town:
Aschenhof, Birkenreuth, Boxdorf, Eppenhof, Frodersreut ...
, Germany
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Rosenthal am Rennsteig
Rosenthal am Rennsteig is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2019 by the merger of the former municipalities of Birkenhügel, Blankenberg, Blankenstein, Harra, Neund ...
, Germany
Gallery
Plesna kirche.jpg, Lutheran church
Plesna zentrum.jpg, Town centre
Plesna steinkreuze.jpg, Stone circle
References
External links
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Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Cheb District
Czech Republic–Germany border crossings