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Jablonec nad Nisou as viewed across the Mšeno Reservoir. Jablonec nad Nisou is located about 7 km (4 mi) southeast of Liberec and 83 km (52 mi) northeast of Prague. Most of the built-up area lies in the eastern tip of the Zittau Basin, and it is surrounded with the Jizera Mountains in the north, east and south. The northern part of the ...
During the Cold War, Preciosa closely collaborated with the Communist regime.From the 1960s to the 1980s, Preciosa was an integral part of Věznice Minkovice [], a labor camp set up by the Communist government in 1958, now known as one of the most brutal Communist prison camps in Czechoslovakia; it was even nicknamed "The Red Hell" or "Minkau" (after the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau) by ...
Jablonec nad Nisou District is divided into three administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence: Jablonec nad Nisou, Tanvald and Železný Brod.In addition, two municipalities (Jenišovice and Malá Skála) belong to the administrative district of Turnov, which is the only such administrative district in the country whose borders do not correspond to the borders of the ...
The Liberec Region hosts manufacturing, glassmaking, mechanical engineering and jewellery production industries among others. [6] The region is part of the so-called Black Triangle , an area of heavy industrialization and environmental damage on the three-way border of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
Škoda LIAZ's main truck plants were located in Liberec, Rýnovice, Mnichovo Hradiště, and Jablonec nad Nisou. Eventually, factories were opened in Mělník, Zvolen, Veľký Krtíš, Přerov, and Holýšov. LIAZ gradually expanded, employing 11,000 workers and producing 13,600 utility vehicles annually by 1975.
The tram system is conjoined with an interurban tramway branch to Jablonec nad Nisou. It is operated by Dopravní podnik měst Liberce a Jablonce nad Nisou, a.s. The track system is approximately 21.5 km (13.4 mi) long with the branch between Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou measuring around 13 km (8 mi).
Jablonec nad Nisou, a city in the Liberec Region FK Jablonec, an association football club; Jablonec nad Nisou District around the city; Jablonec nad Jizerou, a town in the Liberec Region; Jablonec, a village and part of Libčeves in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Jenišovice (German: Jenschowitz) is a municipality and village in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.