Kamenický Šenov

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Kamenický Šenov
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Kamenický Šenov (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Liberecký kraj
District : Česká Lípa
Area : 1046.3918 ha
Geographic location : 50 ° 46 ′  N , 14 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29 "  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 21"  E
Height: 525  m nm
Residents : 3,919 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 471 14
License plate : L.
structure
Status: city
Districts: 2
administration
Mayor : Michal Třešňák (as of 2020)
Address: Osvobození 470
471 14 Kamenický Šenov
Municipality number: 561681
Website : www.kamenicky-senov.cz
Location of Kamenický Šenov in the Česká Lípa district
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Kamenický Šenov (German Steinschönau , also Stein-Schönau ) is a town of the Okres Česká Lípa in the Liberec region in the north of the Czech Republic .

Geographical location

City and surroundings

The city is located in northern Bohemia on the southern slope of the Lusatian Mountains along the Šenovský potok ( Steinschönauer Bach ) between the Wolfsberg ( Kameník ) and the forest and bird mountains ( Smrčník and Šenovský vrch ).

The Herrenhausberg (595 m) with its picturesque basalt rock is located near the town.

history

Mansion rock

The settlement was first mentioned in 1362 and has developed into a center of glass processing alongside Nový Bor since the 16th century . The glassware produced here was marketed throughout Europe by local traders as early as the 18th century.

In the center of the village is the Church of St. John the Baptist, which was built in 1716–1718 instead of the old wooden one and equipped with six bells. A bell still existing in the first half of the 19th century showed the name of Jakop Heintsch , the last Protestant pastor who emigrated with his fellow believers in 1625.

A glass technical school has been located here since 1856, which was merged with the one in Haida in 1926; were here in the time up to the Second World War u. a. the Eiselt brothers are active.

The village received a railway connection from Česká Kamenice by the Bohemian Northern Railway in 1886 and was named a town in 1900. From 1902, the line was continued by the local railway Böhmisch Leipa – Steinschönau to the district town of Böhmisch Leipa. 1979 the passenger traffic was stopped. Today there is a museum railway on the remnant stretch from Česká Kamenice to Kamenický Šenov .

Until 1945/46 Stein-Schönau was predominantly German populated. After the First World War , the city was annexed to the newly created Czechoslovakia in 1919 . Due to the Munich Agreement , Stein-Schönau belonged from 1938 to 1945 to the district of Tetschen-Bodenbach , district of Aussig , in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of the German Empire .

  • Church of John the Baptist and a building in the city center (photo 2007)

  • Steinschönau, church and rectory (picture postcard, approx. 1920s)

  • Manor house rocks (picture postcard circa 1920s)

  • Austrian 5 Kreuzer postage stamp, canceled around 1875 in STEINSCHÖNAU

From September 22, 1944 to January 27, 1945 there was a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in the village , whose 48 prisoners had to do forced labor .

After the end of the Second World War , the region was taken over by Czechoslovakia. Due to the Beneš decrees , the German residents were expropriated and expelled in 1945 .

Demographics

Until 1945 Stein-Schönau was predominantly populated by German Bohemia , which were expelled.

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1830 2228 in 336 houses
1900 5080 German residents
1930 5340 including 4,137 Germans
1939 4919
Population since the end of the Second World War
year 1970 1980 1991 2001 2003
Residents 3,924 4 254 4,088 4,073 3,982

Community structure

The town of Kamenický Šenov consists of the districts Kamenický Šenov (Steinschönau) and Prácheň (Parchen) , which also form cadastral districts.

Attractions

sons and daughters of the town

Twin cities

Web links

Commons : Kamenický Šenov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/561681/Kamenicky-Senov
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ↑ a b Jaroslaus Schaller : Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 5: Leutmeritzer Kreis , Vienna 1787, pp. 213-214, item 10).
  4. ^ A b Ludwig Schlesinger : travel description of a German-Bohemian glass cutter . Announcements from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia . Volume 8, Prague 1870, pp. 220-235.
  5. ↑ a b c Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia . Volume 1: Leitmeritzer Kreis , Prague 1833, p. 257, item 16).
  6. ↑ Steinschönau satellite camp (Kamenicky-Šenov). , Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  7. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon 6th edition, Volume 18, Leipzig and Vienna 1909, p. 914 .
  8. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Tetschen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Genealogy Sudetenland
  10. ↑ Czech population statistics
  11. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/561681/Obec-Kamenicky-Senov
  12. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/561681/Obec-Kamenicky-Senov