Mácha region

The village of Tachov lies at an altitude of 333 meters above sea level at the foot of Tachov Hill about 3 km southwest of Doks. The origin can probably be traced back to the 14th century, as the oldest report dates from 1392 and names Hanuš and Martin, sons of Matěj from Tachov. In 1460, Tachov fell under the Dock town law. The village was mentioned in the provincial plates in 1553, and at that time it belonged to the so-called Bezděž goods. However, there were also free courts of Kašpar Plotn from Jansfeld in Tachov and Martin from Tachov. He bought the pledged royal goods from Emperor Rudolf II in the 16th century. Jan of Vartenberk and during his reign the estate underwent considerable growth. After the Battle of White Mountain, Albrecht of Wallenstein bought the confiscated property, and after his death in Cheb in 1634, Doksy and the surrounding villages fell to the Irish Colonel Buttler. In 1638, Christopher of Heisenstein acquired them. From 1680 until 1945, the Bezdez estate was in the hands of the Wallensteins. In 1784, a one-class school was opened in the village together with the school library, and in 1793 the construction of a baroque chapel began, which was completed and consecrated in 1794. Tachov has always been an agricultural village, the so-called "Dub green hops" were grown here. Until the beginning of the 20th century, no road led to the village. It was not until 1908 that the construction of the road began and was not completed until the 1920s20. century. A quarry was opened on Tachovské Hill for the purpose of road construction. During the census in 1921, there were 42 houses and 209 inhabitants in Tachov, of which 3 were Czechs. In the years 1945 - 1946, there was a post-war expulsion of the German population and the allocation of land and real estate to Czech settlers. A local school was closed to a small number of pupils in 1963, and in 1976 Tachov was annexed to the town of Doksy. It became independent again in 1994, when the village has 74 inhabitants. There is a construction of water supply, sewerage, new houses and so the population is increasing to the current 185. The village is situated in a tourist attractive landscape near Macha Lake and its surroundings are ideal for hiking and biking trips.