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This homepage is
dedicated to the expelled Sudeten Germans, especially from the Kaaden-Duppau area, who had
to leave their home-country of many centuries forcefully.
At the same time it is warning to further generations never to use "ethnic
cleansing" as a means of politics.
Dear Visitors of our Homepage!
The Kaaden-Duppau area is situated in the
former German-speaking part of north Bohemia. The River Eger, with its most beautiful
part, runs through it, from the Fichtelgebirge to its mouth into the River
Elbe at Leitmeritz.
Kaaden is called "The Gate to Egerland".
Some important facts about Kaaden-Duppau:
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About 700 years ago people from Franconia settled there. This reflects in the architecture of the houses, the dialects and traditions. |
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The whole district consists of 476,47 sq.kms. |
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Before the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans in 1945, 42 871 inhabitants lived there, among them 94,8 % Germans. |
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The Kaaden-Duppau area consisted of 67 districts with 125 villages. Kaaden, Duppau, Klösterle, Radonitz and Willomitz possessed municipal rights. |
The main source of income was the farming
industry: agriculture, gardening and the growing of hops, mining at Brunnersdorf and
caolin earth at Kaaden. Porcelain was manufactured at Klösterle, leather gloves at
Kaaden, asbestum at Willomitz, technical equipment at Klösterle, Meretitz, Pürstein and
Tschirnitz.
The Kaaden-Duppau area is rich of minerals, iron sources at Bad Tschachwitz, sour wells at
Klösterle and Krondorf, apart from some other sour wells at smaller villages.
The dictrict consisted of 47 elementary schools, 4 intermediate schools and a grammar
school at Kaaden and Duppau. Kaaden had an Agricultural Middle School and an Agricultural
College, as well as a School of Home Economics.
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There was a museum in Kaaden and Duppau
respectively.
Kaaden was located at the railway route Prague - Komotau - Eger, with a side-line of the
Buschtiehrader Railway to Willomitz, Radonitz, Duppau.
Please keep informed about our famous personalities and contact "Unsere
Menschen".
Turn on your loudspeaker, if you want to listen to the background music to our data.
We want to show you the beauty of this landscape. Unfortunately a great part of the
villages has fallen prey to military training ground after 1945. Other villages have
suffered the same fate due to coal mining and the artificial lake of Egersee Negranitz.
The expelled Sudeten Germans are now scattered all over the world. The majority, however,
lives in Germany. The "godfather city" of Kaaden-Duppau is Weissenburg, in
Bavaria. There are meetings of former residents every year.
This website is a document of the past. It is our aim to present our home country as we
had to leave it in 1945. You will only find limited references to the present situation.
The number of those who have experienced terror, flight and expulsion is decreasing. It is
the duty of coming generations, however, to keep the memory of our forefathers
respectfully alive.
Email- Adress: heimatkreis@kaaden-duppau.de
