Krnov

Krnov, Ger. Jägerndorf, city (1991 pop. 25,436), NE Czech Republic, in Moravia, 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 sports 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 fine churches and abbeys.

Krnov (ˈkr̩nof; Jägerndorf, new-Polish: Krnów, old-Polish: Karniów, 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%).

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)