Saturday – War memorial and witch memorial

Sobotín, Zöptau in German, has always been a large village, in the century before last it was further enlarged by the presence of one of the largest ironworks of the Austrian monarchy. However, at the time of the highest prosperity, around 2000 people worked in them. Although ironworks lost their competitiveness after the introduction of black coal for smelting, so at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the company was already losing its size and importance. It…