| Krásná | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Karlovy Vary |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cheb |
| Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates: | 50.235°N 12.1681°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1331 |
| Area Total Km2: | 21.85 |
| Elevation M: | 643 |
| Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 625 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 351 22 |
Krásná (German: Schönbach bei Asch) is a municipality and village in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants. It is the westernmost municipality of the country and in the Slavic-speaking world.
The village of Kamenná is an administrative part of Krásná.
Krásná is located about northwest of Cheb and 49km (30miles) west of Karlovy Vary. It lies a salient region call Aš Panhandle, on the border with Germany. The westernmost point of the Czech Republic is located in the municipality, at 50.2525°N 12.0906°W.
Krásná is situated in the Fichtel Mountains. The highest point is the hill Štítarský vrch at 716m (2,349feet) above sea level.
The first written mention of Krásná is from 1331 as a property of counts of Neuberg. Around 1400 Krásná was bought by the Zedtwitz family. This noble house controlled the whole of the Aš region for almost 500 years.[2]
In 1642 a small castle was built here, but in 1828 it suffered a catastrophic fire. In 1898, a municipal brewery was opened, although it is no longer in use. The castle was torn down in the 1950s.
After World War II, because of the buffer zone, several villages in the municipality (Štítary, Újezd, Elfhausen and Nové Domy) were torn down and became ghost towns.
Between 1976 and 1990, Krásná was one of the administrative parts of Aš, but in 1990, the villages of Krásná and Kamenná separated and created a new municipality.[3]
The railway line Aš–Hranice runs through the municipality. Krásná is served by the train station Aš-předměstí, located near the village beyond the municipal border, any by the Štítary stop.[4]
Krásná is poor in monuments. The only protected cultural monument is a rural house from the second half of the 19th century.[5]