Velké Hamry

Velké Hamry ( German Großhammer, formerly Great Hammer) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located eleven kilometers east of Jablonec nad Nisou and belongs to Okres Jablonec nad Nisou.

Geography

The city is located in the southeast of the Jizera Mountains in the valley of Kamenice. In the west and north-west of Schwarzenbrunn ridge on which the Pustina (831 m) and the Muchov ( 787 m) are the highest peaks in Velké Hamry extends.

By Velké Hamry the European route leads 65 / State Road 10 between Tanvald and Zelezny Brod.

Neighboring towns are Tanvald in the north, Český Šumburk in the northeast, Bohdalovice in the east, Zlata Olešnice and Haratice to the southeast, and Michovka Plavy in the south, Zásada in the southwest, and Zbytky Hamrska in the west and Smržovka in the northwest.

History

The first iron hammers in the Valley of Kamnitz and on the southeast slope of the ridge Schwarzenbrunn probably originated in the 13th and 14th centuries, but missing from this period written traditions. The water power of the Kamnitz drove several grinding mills, stone mills, on.

1844 Liebiegsche textile factory was founded in Swarow. Along the river there more factories settled. The construction of the road from Tannwald after Eisenbrod in the years 1864-1867 as well as the built 1870-1875 railroad provided the necessary transport links to the company. 1870 broke into Swarow from a strike of textile workers, which was bloodily suppressed. In 1907, in Mezivodí a spinning mill, besides also two brick factories were operated.

1910 had upper and lower hammer together 4226 inhabitants, who mostly belonged to the Czech minority. 1914, the municipalities upper hammer and Unterhammer were united to the municipality hammer, which was raised in 1926 to market towns large hammer. On April 1, 1937 United got hammer, which had hitherto gepfarrt to Držkov, a private rectory. After the Munich Agreement Großhammer was incorporated on 24 November 1938 in the German district Jablonec. This was a relocation of the Czechs. In 1942, the municipality and the district Plaw Swarow the dissolved city Schumburg at Desse were from the market town of Great hammer and Haratitz, the community Großhammer ( Jizera Mountains ) is formed. After the Second World War it was lifted; In 1947 the incorporation of Bohdalovice and Svárov. Since 1968 Velké Hamry is a city.

Boroughs

The city Velké Hamry consists of the districts Bohdalovice ( Bohdalowitz ) and Velké Hamry (Great Hammer), which also form also Katastralbezirke. Basic settlement units are Bohdalovice, Svárov ( Swarow ) Velké Hamry and Velké Hamry II Hamrska (Hammer). To Velké Hamry also includes the local documents Velké Hamry I (below hammer ) and Mezivodí.

Attractions

• Baroque statue Pieta in Mezivodí
• Monument erected to the victims of the textile workers' strike of 1870 in Svárov, 1963
• Wenceslas Church in Hamrska, built in 1914
• Built chapel of St. Anne in Hamrska, 1891-1894 in neo-Romanesque style
• Gymnasium, built in 1910 in Art Nouveau style
• Ornately decorated spinning mill in Mezivodí, built 1907-1908, monument of industrial architecture
• Hotel Britz, a former Society House of Liebiegschen textile factory