Johanngeorgenstadt est une ville allemande située dans le Land de Saxe. Il est nommé après Jean-Georges Ier de Saxe.
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Johanngeorgenstadt is a mining town in Saxony’s Ore Mountains, 17 km south of Aue, and 27 km northwest of Karlovy Vary. It lies in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, on the border with the Czech Republic, is a state-recognized health resort, and calls itself Stadt des Schwibbogens. Its population decline since the 1950s has been extremely severe, falling from 45,000 residents in 1953 to only about one twelfth of that now.
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The Pulverturm in Johanngeorgenstadt was a tower used by the mining authorities for storing gunpowder for the Neu Leipziger Glück pit. It was built in 1798 in a sparsely settled region outside the town on the spoil heap of the Gotthelf Schaller pit on Eibenstocker Straße by the Neu Leipziger Glück Union. In 1828 it was sold for 105 Reichstaler as a mining area powder tower. The purchase price was advanced by the Royal Stolln, which also assumed responsibility for its repair. For every hundredweight of powder stored, the mines were then charged a taler towards the repayment of the advance. In 1864, the powder tower was sold to the district council for 50 thalers.
Due to the rising population of Johanngeorgenstadt, the powder tower now stands in the town centre, not far from a new housing area built in the mid-1980s, which today bears the name Am Pulverturm.
The powder tower is a witness to the mining history and is under monument protection.
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Potůčky is a municipality and village in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
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The Seifenbach is a river of Saxony, Germany in the area of the town Johanngeorgenstadt. It is a right tributary of the Schwarzwasser.
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Jugel is a division of the town of Johanngeorgenstadt in the German district of Erzgebirgskreis. This dispersed settlement is surrounded by woods, is divided into Ober- and Unterjugel and runs along the German-Czech border from the Lehmergrund to the crest of the Western Ore Mountains. In the vicinity lies the 980 metre-high Scheffelsberg. Jugel is a tourist destination for hikers and winter sportsmen.
The village may be reached by railway on the Zwickau–Aue–Schwarzenberg–Johanngeorgenstadt line and by car along Staatsstraße 272 which runs from Schwarzenberg via Johanngeorgenstadt to Wildenthal.