Krnov

Krnov
Town
Town Hall
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Moravian-Silesian
District	Bruntál
Commune	Krnov
Elevation	316 m (1,037 ft)
Coordinates	50°5′26″N 17°41′55″E / 50.09056°N 17.69861°E / 50.09056; 17.69861
Area	44.29 km² (17.1 sq mi)
Population	25,517 (2006)
Density	576 /km² (1,492 /sq mi)
Founded	1221
Mayor	Renata Ramazanová
Timezone	CET (UTC+1)
- summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	120 61 - 794 01
Location in the Czech Republic
Location in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Wikimedia Commons: Krnov
Statistics: statnisprava.cz
Website: www.krnov.cz

Krnov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkr̩nof]; German: Jägerndorf, new-Polish: Krnów, old-Polish: Karniów, Latin: Carnovia) is an Upper Silesian city in the northeastern Czech Republic, in Moravian-Silesian Region, in the District of Bruntál, on the Opava River near the Polish border.

An industrial center, it manufactures textiles (especially woolens) and musical instruments (notably organs). It is a summer resort and a winter sport area. The city was founded in 1221 and served as the capital of an independent duchy from 1377 to 1523. Krnov has an 18th century castle and several churches and abbeys.

According to the Austrian census of 1910 the town had 16,681 inhabitants, 15,647 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 15,390 (98.4%) were German-speaking and 247 (1.5%) were Czech-speaking. Jews were not allowed to declare Yiddish, most of them thus declared the German language as their native. Most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 15,290 (91.7%), followed by Protestants with 885 (5.3%) and the Jews with 459 (2.8%).^[1]

The Krnov Synagogue is one of the few large synagogues to have survived the Nazi occupation of Europe.

People

• Jakob Bellak, textiles manufacturer
• Wilhelm Bellak, textiles manufacturer
• Radek Bonk, ice hockey player
• Hanns Cibulka, poet
• Alois Clupacek, textiles manufacturer
• Fritz Geiringer, textiles trader
• Josel of Rosheim
• Sigmund Langshur, professor
• Charles Fleischmann, inventor, distiller

Twin cities

• Pefki, Greece
• Głubczyce, Opole Voivodeship, Poland
• Karben, Hesse, Germany
• Mińsk Mazowiecki, Masovian Voivodship, Poland
• Prudnik, Opole Voivodship, Poland
• Saint-Égrève, Department Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
• Telšiai, Lithuania
• Yukon, Oklahoma, USA

References

External links

• Municipal website (in Czech)
• News from Krnov (in Czech)
• Old municipal website version in English
• New municipal website version in English
• City information center (in Czech)
• Sudeten German homeland district of Jägerndorf (in German)
• Documents on the Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Jägerndorf
• www.krnovsko.eu Alter Jägerndorf (in Czech)

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