Ash

Building

• Baroque Town Hall (1733). In 1814 there was a strong fire in the town hall, but in 1816 it was completely restored. Later, another floor was attached to the town hall. In the XX century, the town hall underwent a comprehensive reconstruction, then there was a library in it. Since 2003, the building again began to function as a city hall.
• The museum of the city ​​of Ash was founded in 1892, now it is located in a building on Mikulashskaya street. The museum has a collection of 25,000 pairs of gloves from all over Europe. It is also worth taking a look at the valuable crucifixes available in the museum.
• Catholic church of St. Nicholas - a Roman Catholic church dating from 1871
• Salva Guradia (Salva Guradia) - a stone relief with images of imperial symbols, certifying the fact of the liberation of the city of Ash from the obligation to deploy troops. The relief is in the Ash Museum.
• The observation tower on the hill of Guy was built in 1902-1903. The architect of the tower was W. Kreis. Tower height 36 m.
• The Holy Trinity Evangelical Church has always been Asha's most famous landmark. The church was built in 1747-1749. 2500 people took part in the construction. Citizen Asha Gustav Geipel, at his own expense, bought for the church the largest organ in Western Bohemia at that time. The church burned to the ground during reconstruction in 1960. Later, what was left of the fire was removed. In 2003, a memorial place was organized on the site of the church.

Monuments and Memorials

• Goethe's monument was erected in 1932. It is located on Goethe Square. Its designer was Johannes Watsal.
• Monument to Martin Luther dates back to 1883. This is the only monument to Luther in the whole Czech Republic. The architect of the monument is J. Rössner.
• The memorial to the victims of the First World War is located at the Ash cemetery. This is an obelisk on a pedestal.
• The memorial to the victims of World War II is also located in the Ash cemetery and is also essentially an obelisk.
• The memorial to Soviet soldiers who helped free the border zones near Asha is also located in the Ash cemetery.
• The Benesu Memorial is located on Okruzhnaya Street, in front of the elementary school building.
• The memorial commemorating the liberation of Asha by American troops stands on the border of Masaryk Square and Peace Park.
• Monument to Geypel . Gustav Geipel was a city dweller of pre-war Asha, an industrialist and philanthropist, who granted large amounts of land to the city and donated a lot of money to it. The monument was unveiled in 1924 on Okruzhnaya street.
• The Körner Monument is located in the park near the observation tower. Körner is the industrialist Asha who lived in the city before the war.
• The monument to Yagn is located in the park near the observation tower. Yagn is an Asha athlete who lived in the city before the war.

• Plauen , Germany (since 1962)
• Elsnitz , Germany (since 2001)
• Fiumefreddo di Sicilia , Italy (since 2004)

• Augsburg Superintendence of the Augsburg Confession of Ash

• Ash (g.) // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

muas.cz (Czech) - official site of the city of Asch