Lanškroun, Brewery Square
by Jiří Vodička
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Jiří Vodička
Taken 15:50, 18/05/2012
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Lanškroun Town was founded in the 13th century and his name Landeskrone - "Provincial Crown" enhanced by the importance of seat on the boundary of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. It lies in the valley below Lanškrounská southernmost foothills of the Eagle Mountains at 49 ° 55 'north latitude and 16 ° 37' east longitude at an altitude of around 380 m Today Lanskroun with its 10 123 inhabitants rapidly growing modern city focused on the future. The city of electronics, machinery, paper industry and city schools, vibrant culture and modern sports facilities.
City Lanškroun happened in 2002 authorized municipalities with extended powers for the 21 municipalit...
The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, and its history can be read technical papers-I just want to try to ...
Square Al. Jirasek in Lanškroun is a pleasant space that is a successful adaptation Park. It also ser...
History Museum Lanškroun existence begins in 1905. Museum administration was then controlled by the B...
The oldest part of the castle buildings Lanškroun tract adjacent to the Church. Wenceslas. It was the...
The inn is in Lanškroun since the 16th century. It is east of the square on the outskirts of the form...
In May 1945, after nearly six years officially ended combat operations in Europe. Therefore, these da...
New housing and building houses for elderly people in Lanškroun. Janacek and the Polish part of the s...
New housing and building houses for elderly people in Lanškroun. Janacek and the Polish part of the s...
The Czech Republic is a cool little landlocked country south of Germany and Poland, with a national addiction to pork and beer. Potatos, cabbage, and dumplings are close behind them, and they also have this great bar food called "utopenec." It means "a drowned man," it's pickled sausage with onions, perfect with some dark wheat bread and beer. The Czech bread is legendary, like a meal all by itself.
Czechoslovakia first became a sovereign state in 1918 when it declared independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The state of Czechoslovakia lasted until the "Velvet Divorce" of 1993, which created Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
It was occupied by Germany in WWII but escaped major damage, unlike most other European cities. The nation's capital, Prague, retains some of Europe's most beautiful Baroque architecture as well as one of the largest medieval castle complexes still standing. The President of the Czech Republic has his offices in the Prague Castle even today.
There was a coup d'etat in 1948 and Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet rule. For fifty years Czechoslovakia was a Socialist state under the USSR, subject to censorship, forced atheism and even the arrest of jazz musicians!
In 1989, communist police violently squashed a pro-democracy demonstration and pissed everybody off so bad that a revolution erupted over it, finally ending the Communist rule.
The next twenty years saw rapid economic growth and westernization. Today in Prague you can eat at McDonald's or KFC, shop for snowboarding boots and go see a punk rock show.
The Czech Republic took over the presidency of the European Union in January 2009. This instantly created lots of political drama because the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, is a renowned Euroskeptic.
We anxiously await the outcome of "President Klaus vs. the Lisbon Treaty", a world heavywieght fight sceduled for spring 2009.
Text by Steve Smith.
