Victor Kugler's birthplace
Victor Kugler's birthplace was called Hohenelbe and at the time was part of Austria-Hungary. Now it is part of the Czech Republic and is called Vrchlabí. It lies at the foot of the Giant Mountains on the river Elbe.
Links het geboortehuis Victor Kugler in Hohenelbe, omstreeks 1904.
Foto: onbekend. Fotocollectie: Krkonošské muzeum Vrchlabi Copyright: Publiek domein.
The address where Kugler was born in 1900 read Hohenelbe 119.
Administratively, since 1850, Hohenelbe was head of the Hohenelbe District in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Schools were built in the city for primary and secondary vocational education for both boys and girls, as well as a technical school for weaving. In 1909, a Realgymnasium was founded, to which girls also had access after 1918.
After the First World War and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Hohenelbe was also called Vrchlabí. As a result of the Munich Agreement (30 September 1938), Hohenelbe, which was mainly inhabited by Germans, was annexed to the German Empire, occupied by German troops and until 1945 belonged to the district of Hohenelbe, the administrative district of Aussig, in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of the German Reich. In 1941, a forced labor camp for Jews was established in Ober-Hohenelbe. After the end of World War II, the territories transferred to Germany in the Munich Agreement were reallocated to Czechoslovakia and the majority of the German-speaking population was expelled from Hohenelbe.[1]