Mikulášovice

Mikulášovice (German: Nixdorf) is a town in the Czech Republic.

Mikulášovice
Town
Town hall and Saint Nicholas Church
Flag
Coat of arms
Mikulášovice
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 50°57′56″N 14°21′28″E
CountryCzech Republic
RegionÚstí nad Labem
DistrictDěčín
MunicipalityŠluknov
Government
 • MayorIng. Miluše Trojanová (2010)
Area
 • Total25.85 km2 (9.98 sq mi)
Elevation
414 m (1,358 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total2,267
 • Density88/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
407 79
Websitewww.mikulasovice.cz/

Mikulášovice is a city with 2,375 inhabitants (January 1, 2004) in the Czech Republic. The elongated village in the valley of the brook Mikulášovický (Nixdorf Bach) is 414 m above sea level in the west of the Bohemian low country near the border with Germany and belongs to the Děčín District. Between Mikulášovice and 7 km north-west German neighbor Sebnitz is the 598 m high Tanečnice (Dance Plan), the mountain of the community.

It is the birthplace and home town of the famous German soprano Anni Frind.

The company Mikov, producing popular knife Rybička, has its seat in Mikulášovice.

From 1938 to 1945 it was occupied by Germany, before it was liberated by Polish soldiers in May 1945 and restored to Czechoslovakia. In the final stages of World War II, in May 1945, the prisoners of the AL Bautzen subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, evacuated from Bautzen to Mikulášovice by the Germans, were liberated there by Polish soldiers.[1]

Famous residents
  • Franz Dittrich (1815–1859), pathologist, native of Mikulášovice.
  • Anni Frind (1900–1987), soprano opera singer, was born in Mikulášovice.
  • Oskar Schäfer, Knight's Cross holder
  • Baroque Saint Nicholas church
  • Church of the Ascension
  • Monument commemorating the liberation of the town by Poles in 1945
  • John of Nepomuk statue
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References
  1. "Subcamps of KL Gross- Rosen". Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica. Retrieved 14 June 2020.


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