Jiřetín pod Bukovou

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Jiřetín pod Bukovou
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Jiřetín pod Bukovou (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Liberecký kraj
District : Jablonec nad Nisou
Area : 330.6531. Ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 46 '  N , 15 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '39 "  N , 15 ° 15' 46"  E
Height: 525  m nm
Residents : 467 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 468 43
License plate : L.
traffic
Railway connection: Smržovka – Josefův Důl
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Josef Kucin (as of 2007)
Address: Jiřetín pod Bukovou 103
468 43 Albrechtice v Jizerských horách
Municipality number: 546585
Website : www.jiretinpb.cz

Jiřetín pod Bukovou (German Georgenthal ) is a municipality in Liberecký kraj in the Czech Republic . It is a member of the Kamenice microregion and the Neisse Euroregion .

geography

Jiřetín pod Bukovou is located in the Jizera Mountains at the foot of the Buková ( Buchberg , 837 m) on the right bank of the Kamnitz (Kamenice) .

history

The first written mention comes from the tax roll of 1654. Albrecht Maximilian Desfours received landlords in the area in 1662 and founded settlements for working immigrants whose local foundations were given the first names of his family. Morchenstern ( Smržovka ) spun off as an independent.

In the dialect of the Jizera Mountains the names Geörgthal , Geörgensberg , Girgenthal and Jergnstol were also used for Georgenthal.

In 1862, the inventor and industrial pioneer Daniel Swarovski was born in Georgenthal near Albrechtsried in the Gablonz district into a family of glass cutters who developed a successful gemstone industry company with new grinding machines for 10 years in Johannesthal near Reichenberg in 1895 and moved on to Wattens in Tyrol in 1895 pulled. 1908 to 1945 and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , the company Johann Schowanek was based in Georgenthal , which at times employed more than 1,300 people.

literature

  • Randolf Gränzer: Reichenberg. City and country in the Neißetal. Published by Heimatkreis Reichenberg, Augsburg 1974, p. 386 f. with a photo of the birth house (in blocks, typical for the Jizera Mountains) and by Daniel Swarovski

Twin cities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.uir.cz/obec/546585/Jiretin-pod-Bukovou
  2. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ History ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Jiřetín pod Bukovou  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jiretinpb.cz

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