Liberec

[Norkey]

Location
City of Liberec (german: Reichenberg) is located in the North Bohemia in Liberec Valley of Neisse river
between Jeschken Ridge (JZ) and Jizera Mountains (Izergebirge - SV).

Centrum města leží na 50°43´ severní šířky a 15°04´ východní délky ve výšce 374 m.n.m.
Nejvyšším bodem je vrchol Ještědu ve výšce 1012 m.n.m., dolní stanice kabinové lanové dráhy
má 600 m.n.m., koryto řeky Nisy je kolem 350 m.n.m.
Rozloha: 10 610 ha
Počet obyvatel: cca 106,000 (as of 1/1/2010), with near Jablonec/Gablonz a.d. Neisse more than 150,000.

City coat-of-arms:


History
History of Liberec is dated back to 13th century, first mentioned in 1352 as a small merchant
settlement. In next two centuries, Liberec become a liege town. First rulers of Liberec were
Bibersteins, who died off in 1551. Then the protestant Rederns come. They founded Manor House with
chapel, hospital, prison and others. This was base for enormous glory of the city in next
centuries. In 1577, Liberec was proclaimed for town by emperor Rudolph II. and was given his
own coat-of-arms with red castle and symbol of Redern dynasty.

Next ruler of city was Albrecht Wenceslas Eusebius von Wallenstein, the main person of Thirty
Year's War (1618-1648) who changed town into textile production-leading giant, nearly all
austrian soldiers were supplied from Liberec. After his death in 1634, Clam-Gallases come and
city was destroyed by attacking Swedish armies.

In second half of 19th century, Liberec was second biggest city of Kingdom of Bohemia and
important city for all czech germans, called "Metropolis of the North" and quickly became capital city
for Sudetenland region. End of 18th century is considered as the "Golden Age of Liberec."
First textile manufactories changed into factories. In half of 19th century first great villas and
manors are being erected, schools and gymnasiums are being built, railway come to the city
(connecting Wien - Brünn - Pardubice - Liberec - Berlin), city centre expanded, new theatre
and new City hall were constructed. Textile industry and industrial architecture developed.
Liberec gained statut of free city in 1848, some representative buildings were built. There were three consulates
and also more than 50 textile factories at that time, with another 60 factories of metal-working industry residing here.

In 1918, Liberec wanted to be merged with Austria or Germany, declared independence, have
own currency, government (Rudolph Lodgman von Auen), national bank, own army, but
starvation and Czechoslovakian army with panzerwagen crushed all resistance. After economic
crisis in 1930, city was heavilly affected because all luxury goods were exported. In 1938, after
Münich agreement, Konrad Henlein added Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. In may 1945, germans in Liberec were
defeated, Germans were transferred to Germany and Czechs settled here. During soviet agression
in 1968, 9 people in Liberec and its surroundings died. Today the city is famous for it's sport opportunities,
often called "Bohemian Innsbruck." It held various sporting events ranging from FIS Nordic World Ski Champ 2009
to U21 Euro Football Champ.

FOR another Liberec-based thread, please visit our Projects and Constructions section

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Panoramatic Views













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- hilly/rural countryside near Liberec..



- ..most of the region is more mountainous though



Historical buildings, city centre

- Cityhall



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Neptun's Fountain on Central Sq. (Altstadter Platz)



Theatre with Post-office
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North Bohemian Museum and City Spa on Masaryk Ave



etc. etc.

Modern architecture

Tipsport Arena - Indoor Arena and homestand for HC White Tigers Liberec

Public Library






The highest building, Krajský úřad Libereckého Kraje (Seat of Regional Govt)


2nd highest building, S-Tower aka Syner Group Tower



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Shopping possibilities in the center of the town

Forum (completed 2009/2010)





Plaza (2009)



Tramline 11. Interurban tram Liberec-Jablonec which leads through forests and hills, it is said that it is the most romantic on the world...


Statues, city parks, others









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more pictures on Modry Medved
Libe 4ever.

[kokpit]

Super, díky!
Ty projekty jsou pro mě nový, asi by stálo za to dát některý do Czechia project a constructions vlákna, případně tam založit speciální vlákno přímo pro Liberec (a okolí). Vzhledem k tomu že tam bude za dva roky to mistrovství FIS tak se tam asi bude leccos dít... (P.S. jen aby jste měli sníh )

[Norkey]

Originally Posted by kokpit

Super, díky!
Ty projekty jsou pro mě nový, asi by stálo za to dát některý do Czechia project a constructions vlákna, případně tam založit speciální vlákno přímo pro Liberec (a okolí). Vzhledem k tomu že tam bude za dva roky to mistrovství FIS tak se tam asi bude leccos dít... (P.S. jen aby jste měli sníh )

konkrétně k MS Liberec 2009 bude vylepšen hlavně skokanský areál, teď toho tam k focení moc nebylo, ale už na podzim se tam upravoval svah pro tu budovu na doskoku tak uvidíme, v areálu ve Vesci bude kromě parkovišť hlavně technická budova a stadion, někde už jsem tu budovu viděl, taková pěkná severská stavba

[kokpit]

Moc pěkný, myslim že to Liberci a regionu dost pomůže, i když zimní turistika tam dost kvete už teď. Jak říkám, hlavně aby byl sníh...

[Norkey]

i letní...

no worries about snow here, lorries and trucks are ready to import him from Harrachov :-)

[kokpit]

^ well, the global warming takes its course. For safty's sake be prepared to import snow from the Alps.

[earth intruder]

very nice city!

[Norkey]

Information Center of Technical University - almost completed











(sry for quality of imgs)
I also actualized 1st entry and I want to continue with it

[Norkey]

Just few pics from the "jewel of Liberec," it's villa quarter in Altstadt & Alt Harzdorf (and also place I live in). (There are thousands of villas, Liberec was city of german aristocracy, bourgeoisy, the most important industrial city of Austrian monarchy.. baron Johann Liebieg, Christoph Demantius, Heinrich Herkner, Camillo Horn, Harald Kreutzberg or Ferdinand Porsche were born here..)



Museum of the region North Bohemia








Lower barracks






















Tramline 1 stop


Old amphitheatre..


Park entrance.. but where is the park?! :o)


Tram..


Volksgarten


Commie high-rise building.. one of the finest I ever saw (Located on the slope, it's succesfully copying the terrain..)




Jeschken view


Commie high-rises, more closely place where University students (and journalists of FIS WC Liberec 2009!) are (will be) housed. 6 high-rises, they're nice, isn't it?






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This bridge is very romantic, especially in night where it is preexposured..


The street I live in ; Technical University (Faculty of Architecture here)


Liberec Dam




Liebieg's Villa






Modern residential building - we are close to city centre.


Church & convent




Well, I don't like this high-rise and they are plannig here more of them.. well, hospital has run out of space..














Thx for Ur attention!

[kokpit]

Whoa!! this is amazing work you've done here, finally we have some new active forumer
I think we should create some new thread about Projects and Constructions going on in Liberec.
Keep the good work Feyd-Rautha.

[Norkey]

thx. Now I'm planning to fo farther and do some fotos of Commieblocks here.. :-)

[kokpit]

^ Great idea, but do not forget your maturita too

[Norkey]

yeah.. However, weather is nice so visiting friends or just going out to pubs is good idea... :-) So few photos should be taken then..

[renco]

Wonderful pics,Liberec looks like a souch pleasant place to live

[Norkey]

Yes, lying in the hilly terrain, it is considered as the most pleasant place to live in Cze. In commie's era, liberec was often called "the green city," but it was heavilly damaged by communists so that's why I don't like them There are some problems (no outer city ring (just Germans in 1938 planned it), things around inner city ring go slowly (and tunel under Šalda's square probably won't be realized), also plans for modernisation of railway track from Prague with lot of tunels under Jeschken ridge were postponed...

December 06 - R14 which leads to Jablonec n. N. near bridge over Tanvaldská street, farther is bridge under tram-way (U Sila road).

[Norkey]

Nové autobusové nádraží (studei), nahradí staré a nevyhovující.. už aby to bylo :-P

http://anl.cz/cz/budova/

Projekt Regiotram vypadá, že na něj ministerstvo nepřispěje čili z EU taky nic nedostanem a to je fakt krize. Po tom co zasekli výstavbu dvoukolejné plně elektrifikované železniční trati od Prahy (s množstvím dlouhých tunelů za Hodkovicemi n.M.) je tohle další rána.. byrokrati..

[.oreo.]

Beautiful architecture there in Liberec! By the way there is great TVshow on ČT2 calle Šumná města about architecture of towns and cities in CR introduced by architect David Vávra. Really worth of watching! But don´t know whether Liberec was already?! Hope not yet.

[Norkey]

oreo: Liberec was in Sumna Mesta maybe in 2000 or 2001, so long time ago.. it was reprised last yr.. However, lot of things has changed.. ;o)

[.oreo.]

Originally Posted by Feyd-Rautha

oreo: Liberec was in Sumna Mesta maybe in 2000 or 2001, so long time ago.. it was reprised last yr.. However, lot of things has changed.. ;o)

Such a pity I´ve missed it!!! Is there a DVD of that TVshow already?

[kokpit]

Originally Posted by Feyd-Rautha

Nové autobusové nádraží (studei), nahradí staré a nevyhovující.. už aby to bylo :-P

http://anl.cz/cz/budova/

Projekt Regiotram vypadá, že na něj ministerstvo nepřispěje čili z EU taky nic nedostanem a to je fakt krize. Po tom co zasekli výstavbu dvoukolejné plně elektrifikované železniční trati od Prahy (s množstvím dlouhých tunelů za Hodkovicemi n.M.) je tohle další rána.. byrokrati..

jj, a bude hůř... love došly...