Bublava is a village and municipality in Sokolov District

Sokolov District

Sokolov District is a district within Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Sokolov.-Complete list of towns and villages:Březová -Bublava -Bukovany -Citice -...

 in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. It has a current population of 319.

Geaographical Situation

The village is situated in the west of the Erzgebirge, near the German border, where Sokolov

Sokolov

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 borders Saxony

Saxony

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. The nextmost town on the Czech side is Kraslice

Kraslice

Kraslice is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.-Geography:The town is situated on the southern slopes of the eastern reaches of the Ore Mountains, some 5 km from the neighbouring German town of Klingenthal....

, on the German side Klingenthal

Klingenthal

Klingenthal is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, south-eastern Germany. It is situated directly on the border with the Czech Republic opposite the Czech town of Kraslice, 29 km southeast of Plauen, and 33 km northwest of Karlovy Vary.The Aschberg towers above the...

.

The brook Bublavský potok flows through Bublava and the very peak of the Aschberg

Aschberg

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 is found on its territory.

History

The first mention in official documents dates back to 1601. Historically, Bublava has had a strong connection to the Aschberg areas of Klingenthal.

Trade and intermarriage denied the divide given by the border, which once separated Bohemia

Bohemia

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 (and, at times, Austria–Hungary) from Saxony. The inhabitants' alienation and separation from Klingenthal was largely induced through the draconian post-World-War-II resettlement moves by Soviet forces, who systematically depopulated the areas bordering the GDR up to kilometers into then Czechoslowakia, deporting the (mostly German and multicultural) population. Some of these deportations forced those then-refugees, to resettle in central Asia and other remote areas of the Suviet Union, if not outright deportation into Gulag

Gulag

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s.

Nowadays, Bublava is famous mostly as a skiing and snowboarding resort.

Places of interest

• Olověný vrch mountain (German: Bleiberg)
• a warrior memorial
• a memorial for the victims of Fascism
  Fascism
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