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The first reference to the region of Aš comes from the middle of the 13th century. In the course of the 14th century the barons of Zedwitz acquired this territory. The clan affected the history of this region also in the next 600 years. Because of their religious conviction and their political influence the region of Aš remained even after the Thirty-Years-War the only Protestant territory in Bohemia. From the 18th century a rapid development of textile industry has been noted that determined the character of this region for a long time.
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In the region of Aš, there are many interesting historic relics. In Aš itself it is for example the former town-hall building from A. Pfeffer, nowadays there is the municipal library, and the St. Nicolas Church from K. Wiedemann. The tourists can also visit the municipal museum with its expositions about the development of crafts and about the beginning of the textile industry and an exposition about the history of the region of Aš. In the museum you also find a unique glove-collection - 25,000 of gloves pairs - one of the largest collections of that kind in Europe. A visitor there has a unique chance to look at the Martin Luther's statue - the only one statue of this reformator in Bohemia.
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At the northern border of the town, on the hill of Hainberg, there is situated a look-out tower from the year 1903.

The building is 34 m high and in the course of time it became a characteristic dominant feature of the town. The oldest monuments are the stone crosses that symbolize the medieval culture of law. There are five crosses, two of them are placed directly in the town. The stone crosses are registered by the municipal museum. There are many traditional buildings in this area, for example in Krasna and in Dolni Paseky. The last named village, however, is well known especially because of its mineral well. Many ecclesiastical relics you find in Doubrava, Hazlov, Hranice, Mokriny and Podhradi. In Podhradi you can also see the well preserved tower of the medieval castle of barons of Neuberg. The fact that the region of Aš actually forms the most western part of the Czech Republic is demonstrated by a border stone from the year 1844 with the marking I/1 in Trojmezi, where the border lines of Bohemia, Saxony and Bavaria converge.

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