page_title: Boží Dar
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Boží Dar / History
context_page_description: Boží Dar is a small town in Karlovy Vary District, part of Karlovy Vary Region in the Czech Republic. Situated in the Ore Mountains at 1,028 m above sea level, it is considered the highest town in the Czech Republic.
context_section_description: The remote area in the Saxon Barony of Schwarzenberg was settled after silver and tin mining began about 1517. Gottesgab ("Gift of God") was founded as a mining town by decree of the Wettin elector John Frederick I of Saxony, who acquired the lordship in 1533. Together with neighbouring Horní Blatná (Platten), John Frederick had to cede the town to the Habsburg lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1547 after the Schmalkaldic War and his defeat in the Battle of Mühlberg.
  After World War I, Boží Dar became part of the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was mainly settled by Sudeten Germans and was one of the municipalities in Sudetenland annexed during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938. After World War II the German population was expelled, with only 189 inhabitants remaining in 1947. The historic town privileges were lost in the 1950s, but restored in 2006.
caption: Church of Saint Anne
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