메다드 호수 주변 최고의 버스 정류장 출발 하이킹 & 워킹 코스

이 기념비는 1943년 3월 8일부터 13일까지 열린 소콜로프 전투를 기념합니다. 이는 체코슬로바키아 군대가 제2차 세계 대전 동부 전선에 처음으로 참여한 것이었습니다. 돌 받침대 위에는 겨울 제복을 입고 손에 기관총을 든 병사의 청동 조각상이 서 있습니다. 이 기념비는 1951년 조각가 벤델린 즈드루베츠키(Vendelín Zdrůbecký)가 제작했습니다. 비문은 번역하면 "소콜로프 전투의 체코슬로바키아 전투원들을 기리며"라고 되어 있습니다. 이 전투는 독일군의 동부 전선 공세 중 우크라이나의 소콜로보 마을 근처, 하리코프 남쪽에서 일어났습니다. 제1 체코슬로바키아 독립 보병 대대는 베르마흐트(Wehrmacht)에 맞서 붉은 군대와 함께 싸웠습니다. 이 부대는 제2차 세계 대전 중 동부 전선에서 독일군과 싸운 최초의 체코슬로바키아 부대였습니다. 이후 체코슬로바키아의 대통령이 된 루드비크 스보보다(Ludvík Svoboda)의 지휘를 받았습니다.

built in the 13th century

Added to the collection: https://www.komoot.com/de-de/collection/3600632/-naturen-denkmaeler-besondere-baeume-und-weitere-schaetze-der-natur

Saint John of Nepomuk was a priest (Vicar General of the Archbishop) in Bohemia who died a martyr's death in Prague in 1393. By royal order, he was thrown from Prague's Charles Bridge into the Vltava River and drowned. His statue can still be found on or near many bridges today—as is the case here over the Ohře River. He is not only considered a popular "bridge saint" but also the patron saint of the seal of confession. In many depictions of him, he holds a cross in one hand, sometimes placing a finger to his lips with the other as a sign of silence (which was heard during confession). In this depiction, however, his other hand holds a palm branch, which in Christian iconography is the sign of martyrdom. The feast day of Saint John of Nepomuk in the calendar of saints is March 20.

The patronage of this church was not conferred on one of the (almost infinite) number of saints, but entrusted to the protection of the "Holy Trinity." Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, 1927 to 2022) uttered the following words about that mystery of faith, which in Christianity, across all denominations, we venerate the ONE God in THREE Persons: "On the Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Through the Holy Spirit, who helps us understand the words of Jesus and leads us to all truth, believers can, so to speak, gain knowledge of the innermost being of God and thereby discover that He is by no means infinite solitude, but a communion of light and love, life given and received in an eternal dialogue between the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit—lover, beloved, and love, to use the words of St. Augustine." (Address by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Angelus on 11 June 2006)

A visit to the old town of Sokolov is also worthwhile.

A memorial plaque at the entrance to the castle courtyard commemorates the American film director and actor Samuel Fuller (1912 to 1997). As a soldier in the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army, he took part in the liberation of Sokolov in World War II in 1945. In 1980, Fuller, who became known through westerns such as "Forty Rifles" with Barbara Stanwyck, made the film "The Big Red One" based on his war memories. That was the nickname of his unit.

Medard is a reclamation lake. It was created as a project to revitalize the area affected by coal mining of the former Medard and Libík open-cast mines, which were merged into a single one during the mining process, later called Medard-Libík. Mining in this area was stopped on March 31, 2000. Filling of the lake began in 2008, and the planned water level was reached in 2016. Since 2020, it has been the largest artificial lake in the Czech Republic. Five villages in the Medard-Libík area disappeared during the open-cast mining: Čistá u Svatava, Dvory, Kolonie Hahnemannova, Kytlice and Lísková. The new lake is also called "Sokolov Sea".