Liberec, a city in the north of Czech republic

Liberec is situated in a valley between the Jizera Mountains and the Jested Ridge. The Nisa River runs through it. The Town Hall lies 373m above the sea level. The town has population about 100 000 inhabitants and occupies the area of nearly 115 square km.

From its foundation (the first written report about the village, concerning paying elevenses to the Pope, comes from 1352), Liberec was gradually developing as a trade and crafts centre of regional importance. When the house of Biberstein died out, the Liberec manor was bought by the Redern family in 1558. Thanks to this purchase, Liberec started to change its parochial character. It gained the status of a town in 1577. First linen and dealers and drapers settled here.

First stone buildings- the Castle, the Church of St. Anthony and the renaissance Town Hall (pulled down in 1893) grew up among wooden houses. Albrecht of Wallenstein continued in the Redern tradition. He founded the New Town and supported further development of textile crafts. The ground plan of the Sokolovske Square and timbered houses in Vetrna Street remind us of Albrecht’s age even today. The sufferings of the Thirty Year’s War reflected in Liberec only after his death, when the Swedish and imperial troops

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Till the second half of the 19th century, there was the only secondary school (comprehensive), then a special weaving school (in 1852), building school, trade college and college of education were founded.

Liberec (like the whole borderland) contributed to the victory of communists in the 1946 elections and supported also in coup d’état of february 1948 but didn’t gain much gatitude for it. Liberec, since September 1990 again a statutory town, becomes co-founder of the Nisa Euroregion and openes to international contacts.

The present appearance of Liberec dates back to the last third of the 19th century and also the well-known dominants (the Savings Bank, the Post Office, the Town Hall, the Trade and Commercial Chamber, the Baths) come from that time. They show the entirely atmosphere of the town. With the strenghtening of totalitarian centralistic régime, the efforts to change Liberec into standart district town were more and more evident. Political changes after 1989 gave a new prospect to the town and its appearance started to change unbelievably quickly. War events didn’t interfere directly in Liberec but they partly caused the change of industrial structure.

The Sudeten land was connected to the Reich according to it. Irredentist tendency which appeared in Czech borderland again in 1930’s thanks to the situation in Germany and world depression, were fulfilled when the Munich Agreement was signed.

Visitors are attracted by cultural facilities (F. Besides reconstruction of the square and Masarykova Avenue and diversion of the traffic to the underpass at the railway station, also new facades are appearing everywhere and new shops and restaurants are opened.

The 1870’s and 1880’s were branded by political fights, when besides liberals, who were in command, also emancipated workers and the German nationalists (later victorious) appeared on the stage.

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