Tocov

Tocov
Tocov
	Village
	Tocov
	Coordinates: 50°18′25.92″N 13°04′58.08″E
Country	Czech Republic
Kraj	Karlovy Vary Region
Okres	Karlovy Vary District
Population (2020)
• Total	0
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Tocov (Czech pronunciation: [totsov], German: Totzau) is an abandoned Sudeten German settlement located in the Hradiště military training area four kilometers southeast of Stráž nad Ohří. It lies in the Doupov Mountains at an altitude of 590 m on the Petrovský creek.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1369 and became independent in 1850; till then it belonged to the town Doupov (German: Duppau). The village was inhabited mainly by Germans, who were expulsed after World War II. In an incident in May 1945 31 Germans were killed in retaliation for the killing of a policeman and the injuring of another who searched for allegedly hidden Nazis from the district centre of Kaaden.[1][2]

Demography

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1869	600	—
1880	609	+1.5%

Year	Pop.	±%
1890	543	−10.8%
1900	541	−0.4%

Year	Pop.	±%
1910	600	+10.9%
1921	577	−3.8%

Year	Pop.	±%
1930	561	−2.8%
1950	34	−93.9%

References

"Tödliche Rache". focus.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-30. Heute liegt der Schnee wie ein Leichentuch auf dem früher 450 Einwohner zählenden Ort. (Today the snow is like a shroud on the earlier 450-soul village.)
"Massaker an Sudetendeutschen: Ermittlungen werden fortgesetzt". welt.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-30. Zur Erinnerung: Kurz nach Kriegsende hatte ein tschechoslowakisches Kommando der berüchtigten "Roten Garden" in dem heute nicht mehr existierenden Ort Totzau ein Massaker unter der deutschstämmigen Bevölkerung angerichtet. (As a reminder: Shortly after the end of the war, a Czechoslovak command of the notorious "Red Guards" had massacred the population of German origin in the now defunct town of Totzau.)

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[1] "Tödliche Rache". focus.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-30. Heute liegt der Schnee wie ein Leichentuch auf dem früher 450 Einwohner zählenden Ort. (Today the snow is like a shroud on the earlier 450-soul village.)

[2] "Massaker an Sudetendeutschen: Ermittlungen werden fortgesetzt". welt.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-30. Zur Erinnerung: Kurz nach Kriegsende hatte ein tschechoslowakisches Kommando der berüchtigten "Roten Garden" in dem heute nicht mehr existierenden Ort Totzau ein Massaker unter der deutschstämmigen Bevölkerung angerichtet. (As a reminder: Shortly after the end of the war, a Czechoslovak command of the notorious "Red Guards" had massacred the population of German origin in the now defunct town of Totzau.)