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1. Lanškroun
City Lanškroun was founded in the 13th century
and its name Landeskrone - " provincial crown "
out meaning seat on interface Czech , Moravia
and Silesia .
City Lanškroun is at eastern Bohemia near the
provincial border with Moravia . There are about
10 thousand people there. At the center there is
a system of ponds , which are used today for
recreation and sports.

2. Important personalities and natives
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Petr pudding (1320-1387), Bishop of Chur, Litomysl, Olomouc, archbishop of Magdeburg, chancellor
of Charles IV
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Michael Weiss (about 1488-1534), Brethren preacher, author of Czech Brethren hymnal, a monk in
Breslau, before the year 1520 went to the Czech brothers
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Jan Marek Marci (1595-1667), physician, philosopher and naturalist
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Joseph Langer (1650-1711), a Piarist, mathematician and astronomer
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Jan Kaspar Artzt (1688-1765), a lawyer and a provincial prosecutor in Prague
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Jan Vaclav Bärnkopp (1723-1794), a distinguished warrior - artilleryman, reached the military rank of
Field Marshal General, holder of the highest military honor - the Order of Maria Theresa
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Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1765-1831), chemist, pharmacist, botanist and entrepreneur
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Vincent Pernikář (1781-1849), a regional historian, chronicler of Lanškroun Lanškroun first
postmaster
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Niederle Josef (1821-1894), mayor of the town, founded by the City Savings Bank, contributed to the
construction of a tobacco factory, a railway connection Lanškroun - Rudoltice and the establishment
of a secondary school
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Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864-1932), archbishop of the diocese in Vienna
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Otto Piffl (1866-1926), ENT doctor

3. Important personalities and natives #2
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Josef Benoni (1870-1957), playwright, writer, journalist
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Emil Lehmann (1880-1964), professor of the local high school and ethnographer
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Karel Langer (1894-1958), musician, opera singer, actor, director and conductor
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Henry Graz (1899-1942), painter, writer, poet, editor, photographer and theoretician, a
representative of the interwar avant important representative of surrealism
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Praveček Henry (1909-2000), conductor, composer, teacher
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Ing. Blue Bohumil (1916-1963) hockey team's goalie, civil engineer
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Herwig Schopper (born in 1924), physicist
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Jan Smejkal (1946), chess grandmaster
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Zbigniew Czendlik (* 1964), pastor, presenter
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Roman Sebrle (1974), Olympic champion, world and European champion, world record holder in
decathlon

4. Interesting Places
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In Lanskroun there are a lot of places , so let's show it . :)
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Interesting places:
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Renaissance town hall
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St. Anne's Church
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Church of St. Mary Magdalene
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Saint Wenceslas church
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Restaurant Krčma
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Gymnasium
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house Piano
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fountain with dolphins

5. Town Hall

6. Church of St. Mary Magdalene

7. Saint Wenceslas church

8. Restaurant Krčma

9. Gymnasium

10. House Piano

11. fountain with dolphins

12. ● Presentation by
● Václav Janouch
● 6.A, ZŠ nám. A. Jiráska, Lanškroun
● Resources:
● www.lanskroun.eu
● Wikipedia
● Google pictures
● Looking for similarities
● e-twinning project
● 2016