StÅ™Ãbro
Stříbro ( German: Mies ) is a city in the Czech Republic. The old mining town is located below the confluence of the river of the same Úhlavka Mies ( Mže ) and belongs to the Okres Tachov on. The Czech name Stříbro translates as silver and indicates the measurements performed here in the late Middle Ages silver mining.
Coat of Arms Description
Mies had originally a very simple coat of arms: A red shield with a white ( silver ) lily. It is believed that it has been awarded the city under the Luxembourgers. 1469 a golden lily was impressed into the opened door in red. In a blue crowned with battlements silver city wall with gate open and whipped black door leaves with gold fittings. Behind the wall two square, silver towers with battlements, red hipped roof and golden helmet buttons. Between the towers of silver doppelschwänziger Bohemian lion to symbolize the bravery of Lousy citizens. Two miners in the hard suit holding the shield. The coat of arms was in 1555 attached to the bridge tower.
History
In 1131 Duke Soběslav was I.. , According to the chronicler Wenceslaus Hajek of Libotschan, which are also found in Matthew Merian and Johann Baptist von Foresti, the strong city Mies, on the western border of Bohemia against the incursions of the Germans in the place where the village was mięsa, build. 1183 donated by Duke Frederick and his wife Elisabeth, the first parish church in Mies and granted the Maltese the parish law. 1243 transferred Wenceslas I, the Commenthur of the Cross with the Red Star and the Hospital of Kladrau by Mies. Wenceslas I, it was also the rose, the major mountain town on the Golden road between Prague and Nuremberg 1240-1250 to the royal city.
Ottokar II confirmed in 1253 and the Coming conceded as the Good Pittlau rightly. In the same year the Lords of Swan Mountain donated in the Mies Minoritenkloster with four priests and one lay brother. 1257 confirmed the Prague bishop Nikolaus von Rosenberg Kreuzherrenkomturei and awarded the Order of the parish right in Mies. By decision of the General Chapter of Mainz, the convent of the Magdalene gutters was repealed in 1282 to Mies.
In the 14th century the first time the Czech name was Stříbro ( German: Silver) used for the city. On September 30, 1350 has been set at the diet that Charles I may pledge Mies and other cities in urgent need. From this law of the Emperor made use in 1370 and pledged Mies to the Count Palatine Johann im years.
The oldest work of art in the city is the baptismal font from the year 1408th During the Hussite Wars Mies first joined not to the Hussites, in 1421, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by Jan Zizka. It was only in 1427 succeeded the Hussite Přibík z Klenové to conquer the city. In the same year she was besieged by the troops of the first anti- Hussite crusade at the Battle of Mies drove the Hussites under Prokop the Bald but the attacker.
1469 Mies received by King George of Podiebrad as an award for bravery and loyalty demonstrated a new coat of arms. On October 1, 1479, a huge fire destroyed the entire city. Only the built outside the city walls Brauhaus, where the famous white Lousy beer was produced, was preserved. 1494 was the first bell, " Peter Bell" cast. Two other city fires broke out in 1508 and 1528.
1541 the Reformation was introduced in Mies. The Bohemian and Roman- German King Ferdinand I in 1554 was located in the open decay silver mines again and appointed a royal Bergmeister, so that Mies was the mountain city. 1565 began the construction of Dekanalkirche and the city tower. 1568 the Jews had to leave the city because they reside as prohibited in all mining towns by royal mandate because of the carryover of mine products.
1620 was the Counter-Reformation in Mies, the city passed this right of patronage forfeited. The mostly Czechs lived in it until the end of the 16th century the city was gradually Germanized in this time, especially by immigrants, the bustling silver mining again. In 1632 the plague killed many of the inhabitants of the city.
1682, the City Council appointed the teacher Johann Georg Kraus Auscha by Mies because he was proficient in German. In 1710 the plague broke out again. 1771 broke out a great famine, because in the previous year, took the winter until the end of May. This resulted in an inflation of the crop, as hardly any crops could be gathered. Thousands of rural and urban population died of starvation. Because, after canceling the Benedictine pin in Kladrau the local pharmacy was dispensable in 1785, got 1796 Kladruby pharmacist Johann Fischer the job with his pharmacy to move to Mies. 1795 was born in Mies Anna Schödl that - unmarried - turned to especially the poor of the city. She died in 1870. According to her, a street is named.
1816 was another year in which the people had to bear the increased cost of harvesting. In contrast, a very rich harvest in 1817 is retracted, which had become wealthy citizens. In 1832 and 1836, 130 people died in Mies at the Asian crushing dysentery or cholera within a few weeks. 1846 was a bad harvest year, making the population the following year had to experience a famine. However, this had the consequence that riots and uprisings among the poorer population was spreading. In 1853, the emigration of 16 families began with 58 souls to America, because they themselves as followers of the new religion Neujerusalemiten or brothers John (also Schwedenbourgianer ) understood and wanted to be subordinate to any ecclesiastical authority.
Early as 1867 has been determined that a railway line from Pilsen to Eger should lead over the city Mies. The construction of the population and gave the city a lot of new jobs and the opening operation could take place on January 28, 1872.
During the course of the centuries always a fire destroyed in Mies or in the villages of individual houses or entire streets, 1873 470 homes were destroyed in a devastating fire Joachimsthal by storm. Only the pharmacy, the town hall, post office and a few houses on the mountains were spared from the flames.
1945, the German-Bohemian population of Mies was sold, since the city is inhabited almost exclusively by Czechs.
Attractions
Worth seeing is the marketplace with the sgraffito - decorated City Hall in 1543 and the Baroque Plague Column of 1725 with Virgin Mary and various saints plague and state. Further, the Church of All Saints, in the form of 1754/57 and the bridge tower of 1555, a group of the former city wall.
Population figures
Boroughs
To Stříbro today include the districts Butov ( Wuttau ) Jezerce ( Geserzen ), Lhota u Stříbra ( Elhoten Mies ), Milíkov ( Millikau ) Otročín ( Otrotschin ) and Těchlovice ( Techlowitz ).
Policy
Stříbro is twinned with the following cities:
- Vohenstrauß ( Germany )
- Berchtesgaden ( Germany )
- Dinosaur ( Germany )
- Fano (Italy )
- Served ( Austria )
Personalities
- Jakobellus by Mies (1372-1429), Czech priest and writer
- Jacob of Mies ( Jakub ze Stříbra " Holub "; Jacobus de Strziebro or Strziebrensis, † 1499 ), 1494-1496 Rector of Charles University; 1497-1499 utraquistischer Administrator
- Vincent Hauschka (1766-1840), composer
- Streeruwitz Ernst (1874-1952), Chancellor of Austria
- Rudolf Haas (1877-1943), writer
- Josef Hanika (1900-1963), professor of folklore at the Universities of Prague and Munich