Jeseník
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| Area: | 38.2 km² |
| Population: | 12,516 (2003) |
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Jeseník (IPA: ['jɛsɛɲi:k]) (Czech: Frývaldov (IPA: ['fri:valdof]) until 1948, German: Freiwaldau) is a city and a district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.
[edit] The Freiwaldau massacre:
On November 25, 1931, the local Communist party organised a hunger march of around 1,000 unemployed stoneworkers ('Steinklopfen') to Freiwaldau. The police chief at Setzdorf instructed his men to prevent the demonstration from reaching the town. The police forced the marchers to take an alternative route through the forest. The police soon caught up with them at Nieder-Lindewiese, and a clash ensued during which the marchers threw sticks, stones and other objects at the gendarmes. After two stones hit the commander of the unit, First Lieutenant Oldřich Jirkovský, on the forehead, gave his men the order to fire on the crowd. As a result, ten people, including six women - among them a 60 yo woman and a 14 yo girl - were killed and fifteen men and women seriously injured and taken to the hospital in Freiwaldau. The Vienna Neue Zeitung attributed the march to the growing indebtedness of local stone- and chalkworkers, who could no longer earn enough for subsistence. [1] [2] [3]
Neuburg an der Donau in Germany is a partner city with Jeseník.
[edit] Famous personalities:
- Vincent Priessnitz - Founder of Hydropathy, born in 1799
- Edmund Weiss - Astronomer, born in 1837
- Walter Reder - WSS-Officer, born 1915
- Franz Wittelsbach, Prinz von Bayern - Pomologist, died 1999
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