Štítary 

Horizontal well and vegetable cellar

Štítary (German: Schildern, Schildern bei Asch) is a defunct village in the administrative territory of the municipality of Krásná in the Cheb District. The village ceased to exist in 1975. Today, as the cadastral territory of Štítary u Krásná, it belongs to the municipality of Krásná. The municipality of Štítary was located approximately three kilometers northwest of the city of Aš, between the municipality of Krásná and the defunct municipality of Újezd. Previously, the municipality of Štítary consisted of four villages: Dolní Ves, Horní Ves, Štítarský Vrch and Ängerlein and the Farnhaus hermitage. The first written mention dates from 1342, when Štítary belonged to the Neuberg family. Later, like most municipalities in the Aš region, it was bought by the Zedtwitz family. After World War II and the displacement of German residents, most of the villages that made up the municipality of Štítary ceased to exist. The remains of Štítary were annexed to Aš in 1975, and in 1990 it was incorporated into the municipality of Krásná. Just before the expulsion of the German population, around 240 people lived in Štítary in 50 houses, mainly engaged in agriculture. Nowadays, Štítary no longer exists, but this name is still used to name the same area, where today there are only two family houses, one farm and the Útulna (Shelter), which is frequently visited by tourists. Nearby, on the road to the former village of Újezd, there is an abandoned border guard company building.

1) Underground exploration requires courage and considerable effort. Never venture into it alone, without proper security and without the owner's consent. 2) A collapse caused by the collapse of part of the stone slab ceiling lintel. This is probably where the shaft to the surface was. 3) Today's entrance to the water collection adit in Štítary. 4) Floor plan of the water collection adit in Štítary

In the Ašský výběžek and in the adjacent areas of Bavaria and Saxony, underground works built to collect groundwater have been preserved. These water-collecting adit were dug in the zone of near-surface weathering of rocks. Thanks to the strait permeability, this zone is a good collector for shallow groundwater circulation. The adit is built on a similar principle to the so-called qanats, underground gravity-fed water feeders up to several tens of kilometers long from mountain slopes to arid areas. The oldest qanats are documented from the period several thousand years ago in Persia. They subsequently spread elsewhere around the world.The adit near Štítar was dug manually, probably in the 18th century, in weathered fine-grained biotic-chloritic-muscovite slates (metadrobes). The underground passage has a total length of 185 meters, its height is between 180 and 190 cm, and its width is between 60 and 70 cm. On the walls, there are clearly visible traces of the tools used to carve the tunnel, and niches for placing candles to illuminate the tunnel during its construction. The actual spring was probably in the side passage, which is now filled in. The place where the tunnel originally ended is also unclear. In later times, it was rebuilt into a cellar for storing agricultural products ("vegetable cellar") with a new entrance right next to the road.