In the northeastern tip of Sokolovka, just a few hundred meters from the Czech-Saxon border, the village of Bublava is surrounded by a garland of mountains. Founded here at the end of the 16th century, when miners invited by the local nobility began to settle in the Ore Mountains on rich deposits of iron, lead, zinc, and copper in the neighboring Saxony and Thuringia.
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In the northeastern tip of Sokolovka, just a few hundred meters from the Czech-Saxon border, the village of Bublava is surrounded by a garland of mountains. Founded here at the end of the 16th century, when miners invited by the local nobility began to settle in the Ore Mountains on rich deposits of iron, lead, zinc, and copper in the neighboring Saxony and Thuringia.