Since the adjacent region of the Margraviate of Meissen had merged into the Electorate of Saxony, it was the site of a road border crossing, which was finally closed in 1945.
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Located in the Šluknov Hook area close to the border with Neustadt in Sachsen in Germany, it is the state's northernmost municipality since the demolition of nearby Fukov (in the present-day Šluknov municipal area) in 1960.
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From 1804 it was also the northernmost point of the Austrian Empire, stretching down to the Prevlaka peninsula (in present-day Croatia) in the south.