Stráž nad Ohří
village in Karlovy Vary District of Karlovy Vary region
Stráž nad Ohří (German: Warta) is a municipality and village in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative division
Stráž nad Ohří consists of nine municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
Etymology
The name Stráž means 'guard' in Czech. This name was often given to places that were used for guarding and from which it was possible to see well into the distance, or to places along rivers that served to keep watch so that no one passed without paying the toll. The suffix nad Ohří means 'upon the Ohře'.
“Stráž nad Ohří” enters the record as village in Karlovy Vary District of Karlovy Vary region. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stráž, Ohří and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Stráž nad Ohří” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stráž, Ohří and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1582762. Authority coordinates are 50.337, 13.051. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stráž nad Ohří” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.