Příbram

Pribram ( German: Příbram, older even Freiberg in Bohemia ) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic about 60 km southwest of Prague with 35 963 inhabitants.

History

Emperor Rudolf II elevated the town on November 20, 1579 to the Royal mountain town. Following the route of the Golden Path was changed and these out of Březnice over Pribram.

Economy

The city is an important center of lead ore mining and lead smelting. In the district Březové Hory ( Birch Hill) is the largest mining museum in the Czech Republic. Between the 1880s and 1930s Pribram was an important site of Perlkranz production.

Marian Shrine

Not far from the pilgrimage town of Pribram Svatá Hora monastery is located (Holy Mountain ). There is since the 13th century St. Mary's Chapel, which was 1348 until today revered Marie portrait of the Prague Archbishop Ernst of Pardubice. Since 1861 Redemptorist supervised the pilgrimage after Jesuit priest and Prague were responsible for the pastoral care of before. On April 13, 1950, the monastery was dissolved and only 40 years later, re-opened on 1 March 1990.

Sports

After the merger of FC Pribram and FK Dukla Prague in 1996 was the resident in Pribram football club FK Marila Pribram. He reached the part in the UEFA Cup in the 2001/ 02 season. Since July 2008, the first club FK Pribram means.

Pictures

Mining Museum

Březnická ulice

Jacob's Church

Twin Cities

• Freiberg, Germany
• Hoorn, The Netherlands
• Kezmarok, Slovakia
• King Wusterhausen (Brandenburg), Germany
• Chekhov, Russia
• Villerupt, France

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• January drda, prose writer and playwright
• František Drtikol, Photographer
• Václav Hrabě, poet, prose writer and a representative of the so-called Beat Generation
• Jaroslav Vozniak, painter
• Tomas Zapotocny, football player
• Ignaz Beth (1877-1918), painter and art historian
• Jiri Vesely, tennis players
• Joseph Schoeffel (1832-1910), Austrian politician, journalist and environmentalist

In the village had

• Jaroslav Durych, Czech prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, Roman Catholic theologian and a military doctor
• František Gellner, Czech poet, an anarchist, novelist, painter and caricaturist
• Karel Leopold Klaudy, Czech lawyer and politician
• Charles Albert Max Balling (1835 - 1896), professor at the Mining Academy in Pribram
• Blazej Mixa (1834 - 1915), längjähriger mayor, producer and politician
• Josef Theurer (1862-1927), physicist and mathematician
• Jiří Majer, founder of the Mining Museum
• Josef Porkert, manufacturers of piano frame
• Franz Xaver Zippe, Czech scientists and technicians
• Adina Mandlová, Czech actress of the 1930s and 1940s