Visited:8. 5. 2020
History:Háj (German: Stolzenhain) is a village located about one kilometre southeast of Loučná pod Klínovcem.The first written references to the village date back to the second half of the sixteenth century and mention it in connection with the church in the then Wiesenthal. The village was founded at the time of the boom of mining in the Erzgebirge on the important road from Bohemia to Saxony. In the period before the Battle of White Mountain, Háj was part of the Hauenstein estate of Kašpar Šlik of Holejč, which was confiscated for participation in the Bohemian Estates Uprising and returned to his wife in 1623. The name of the village is composed of two words. The first part, stolz, comes from Middle High German, and means insolent or splendid. The second word hain (grove) is Old Czech for manor forest. In historical sources the name appears in the forms Sstolczenhon (1654), Stolczenhain (1663) and Stolzenhan (1785 and 1847). Due to the high altitude, there was no agricultural cultivation in the area and cattle breeding became the basis of livelihood. According to the Berni Rula of 1654, there were seventeen cottagers, two gardeners and eight serfs without property in the village. In total, they had eighteen sheep, 51 cows, twenty heifers, one sheep and 21 goats. The village also had a brewery, a tavern and four mills. In addition to raising animals, the people worked in the forest and engaged in trade. On the right bank of the Bílá voda stream, there are the remains of several heaps and about ten shafts and adits where iron ore was mined. By 1756 the village had grown considerably. It had 92 houses, six mills and a wire factory, and a number of craftsmen were active. According to Schaller's Topographie des Königreiches Böhmen from 1785, Háj belonged to the island estate. The decline of mining in the Ore Mountains meant that people had to find new sources of livelihood. These became mainly the production of lace and gloves in the surrounding small businesses or work in the forest and on building sites. Before the mid-nineteenth century, Háj had a population of 1,000 in 123 houses, a school, two taverns, a wire mill and five mills. In the 1890s the school had three classes, a peat deposit was mined near the village, and a lime kiln east of the village produced lime. After the abolition of the patrimonial administration in the mid-19th century, the village became part of the town of Jáchymov, where it belonged until 1900, when it became an independent municipality. It lost its independence in 1950, when it became part of the municipality of Loučná pod Klínovcem, where it belonged until 1986, when it became part of the municipality of Vejprty and in 1992 again part of the town of Loučná pod Klínovcem, where it belongs to the present day. In the first half of the 1990s, the Tomáš Rameš company operated a small business in Háj, which produced metal furniture. After the company's demise, hazardous waste remained on the site of the former factory, which had to be disposed of at the expense of the Ústí nad Labem Region. The village itself has been transformed into a recreational centre, benefiting from the proximity of the ski resorts in nearby Klínovec. According to the 2011 census, a total of 29 inhabitants lived here.
Source:https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1j_(Lou%C4%8Dn%C3%A1_pod_Kl%C3%ADnovcem)
Impressions:A tiny village, located southeast of Loučná pod Klínovcem, where there are many interesting sights.
