Jirkov

Jirkov ( German Görkau ) is a town near the district town of Chomutov ( Chomutov ) in the Czech Republic.

Geography

The Jirkov lies at an altitude of 300 meters above sea level. M. at the foot of the Ore Mountains in the southwestern part of the lignite basin of Most. Jirkov touched directly to the south the district town of Chomutov. Through the town flows the Bílina.

Not far from the local railway line runs from Chomutov Decin after ( Decin ) and Ústí nad Labem ( Usti nad Labem ). East of the city are the reservoirs Újezd ​​and Zaječice.

History

The city emerged as the bailey Wachtenburg Borek, Cerveny Hradek today, the former country bar called Meissen county gate, that of Upper Saxony ( " Meissen " ) on Görkau and Laun ( Louny ) led to Prague. The city was founded in 1296 during the reign of Přemysl Otakar II.

William of Illburg gave the place a number of rights in 1443. 1455 Jirkov became a town, according to other sources gave only King Vladislav II of Bohemia in 1507, a city charter. 1516 Sebastian received from Weitmühl by marriage the estate with surrounding lands. The subsequently beginning construction of the fortification was completed in 1590. 1531 and 1582 investigated the plague home town. Hardship and suffering met Jirkov after the defeat at White Mountain in 1620, as the owners of the city, the men of Roth house, had fought on the losing side. The new owners took up all rights and forced the inhabitants to accept the Catholic faith. During the Thirty Years' War Görkau was repeatedly pillaged and plundered.

From the mid-19th century the village belonged to the district of Chomutov and was the seat of a district court in the judicial district Görkau.

In the 19th century the workers of the factories of Görkau began to organize. At the beginning of the 20th century there was also Görkau in 1905 to workers' demonstrations. From 1933 the Sudeten German Home Front ( since 1935 Sudeten German Party ) began increasingly to act in the city led by Konrad Henlein until their destination, the annexation of the Sudetenland to Hitler Germany, 1938 reached. In 1945, after the expulsion of the German Bohemian residents, was the settlement of the town with Czech population. 2002 there were in the city of 21,006 inhabitants.

Economy

Industry

Since the 16th century Jirkov was an important town of the mining industry and the craft. It also had its own brewery. At the end of the 18th century, the city experienced another boom. Henry of Rottenhan earned great merit particular attention to the development of the industry ( weaving, calico, ironworks ). In the 20th century more mines, a power plant and a pipe mill were added.

Traffic

Public transport is operated by the DPCHJ.

Boroughs

The Jirkov consists of the districts Březenec ( Pirken ), Cerveny Hradek (Roth House ), Jindřišská ( Hannersdorf ), Jirkov ( Görkau ) and Vinařice ( Weingarten ). Basic settlement units are Březenec, Brezový vrch, Cerveny Hradek, Jindřišská, Jirkov - střed, Kozi hřbet, Nové Ervěnice, Nové Vinařice -jih, Nové Vinařice -sever, Nový Březenec, Nový Březenec - západ, Osada, Pod Vinařicemi, Stare Vinařice, U Mlýnského rybníka, Údolí Bíliny, Za nádražím and Zátiší.

The municipality is divided into the Katastralbezirke Březenec, Cerveny Hradek u Jirkova, Jindřišská and Jirkov.

Twin Cities

• Brand-Erbisdorf Germany
• Sole Sino Italy

Attractions

• St. Mary's Chapel ( Staré Vinařice ), built 1767-1773
• Decorative fountains from the second half of the 18th century
• Town Hall, originally Renaissance, rebuilt after the 1840
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, Johann Brokoff from 1708
• Dean Church of St.. Giles - original church rebuilt from the period around the year 1300, in 1538
• City Tower, grown in the years 1540-1545 at the St. Giles Church
• Plague Column with Pietà, by Johann Brokoff, after the 1695

Personalities

• Václav January Křtitel Tomasek, composer
• Karl Kludský (1864-1927), circus owners
• Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff (1688-1731), sculptor of the Baroque