450th Anniversary - Libochovice, Czech Republic
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N 50° 24.374 E 014° 02.513
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The memorial plaque commemorates the promotion Libochovice to the town.
Waymark Code: WMW6F4
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 07/16/2017
Views: 25
Libochovice (German: Libochowitz) is a town in the Czech Republic. Libochovice is a small town with a population of about 3,603. It is located next to the Ohre River and Hazmburk mountain. From the first half of the seventeen century there was a strong Jewish community, but most died in Nazi concentration camps, and this community was never renewed after the Second World War. Among Jewish sights belongs cemetery, big house at Jewish quarter, where was school, kosher butchery and municipal authority, monument remembering for destroyed synagogue (first mentioned at 1651, destroyed around 1980).
Plaque Inscription:
1560-2010
Pametni deska
450 let
povýšení Libochovic na mesto
v Libochovicích 7. 8. 2010
Subject: Town
Commemoration: the promotion Libochovice to the town
Date of Founding: 1560
Date of Commemoration: 2010
Address:
náměstí 5. května 48
411 17 Libochovice
Ústecký kraj
Overview Photograph:
Yes
Detail Photograph:
Yes
Web site if available: [Web Link]
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