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Area
  
15.64 km²

Elevation
  
166 m

Local time
  
Friday 4:15 AM

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1°C, Wind SW at 14 km/h, 85% Humidity

Libochovice (German: Libochowitz) is a town in the Czech Republic. Libochovice is a small town with a population of about 3,603 (as of 1.1.2012). It is located next to the Ohře River and Hazmburk mountain. From the first half of the seventeen century there was a strong Jewish community, but most died in Nazi concentration camps, and this community was never renewed after the Second World War. Among Jewish sights belongs cemetery, big house at Jewish quarter, where was school, kosher butchery and municipal authority, monument remembering for destroyed synagogue (first mentioned at 1651, destroyed around 1980) and mikveh.

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Map of Libochovice, Czechia

People born in Libochovice

  • Berta Fanta was born here in 1866
  • Josef Kopta
  • Abraham Lederer
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně
  • References

    Libochovice Wikipedia