Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the

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. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the

Ústí nad Labem Region Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region () is an Regions of the Czech Republic, administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad Labem. I ...

. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active

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, is an important railway junction.

Administrative division

Ústí nad Labem is divided into four self-governing boroughs. In addition, Ústí nad Labem consists of 22 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Ústí nad Labem-město (35,015) **Božtěšice (496) **Bukov (5,988) **Habrovice (395) **Hostovice (249) **Klíše (6,944) **Předlice (1,544) **Skorotice (1,379) **Strážky (234) **Vaňov (755) **Všebořice (2,870) **Ústí nad Labem-centrum (14,161) *Ústí nad Labem-Neštěmice (22,148) **Krásné Březno (12,417) **Mojžíř (4,222) **Neštěmice (5,509) *Ústí nad Labem-Severní Terasa (18,965) **Severní Terasa (18,965) *Ústí nad Labem-Střekov (13,585) **

Brná Brná (), also known as Brná nad Labem to distinguish from other places with the same name, is an administrative part and residential area in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. It is located in landscape park České Středohoří on the right si ...

(1,308) **Církvice (179) **Kojetice (129) **Olešnice (89) **

Sebuzín Sebuzín is a village forming one of the districts of the city of Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. It is located on the right bank of the Labe River, in the Czech Central protected landscape area České Středohoří, on Tlučeň creek above s ...

(503) **Střekov (10,249) **Svádov (1,128)

Etymology

The name of Ústí nad Labem is formed from the

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' ('

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') and ' ('

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'). It thus literally means "Mouth-upon-the-Elbe", in reference to its location at the

Bílina Bílina (; ) is a town in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 14,000 inhabitants. It is known for its destination spa, spas and as a source of the strongly mineralized water, Bílinská kyselka. The ...

's confluence with the Elbe. The Czech name was Latinized as ' and Germanized as ' (also written as '). Before Czechoslovak independence amid the

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following

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, the town was usually known in English as Aussig.

Geography

Ústí nad Labem is located about north of

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and south of

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in Germany. It lies mostly in a hilly landscape of the

Central Bohemian Uplands The Central Bohemian Uplands (also known as Central Bohemian Highlands; , ) is a highland and Geomorphological division of the Czech Republic, geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Ústí nad Labem Region. ...

, but it also extends into the

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in the northwest. The highest point is the hill Široký vrch at above sea level. The city is situated at the confluence of the

and

rivers. Half of

Lake Milada Lake Milada (; formerly also known as Lake Chabařovice) is an artificial lake near Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. It originated from excavation by an old coal mine and flooded former villages, Hrbovice, Tuchomyšl and Vyklice. The lake h ...

lies in the municipal territory. The southern part of the territory lies in the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area.

Climate

History

10th–15th centuries

The first verified written mention is in the charter of the chapter at the Church of St. Stephen in

Litoměřice Litoměřice (; ) is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation. The town is the seat of the Roman C ...

, dated to 1056 or 1057. In 1249, it was first mentioned with the title of royal town. The charter of the Prague Benedictine monastery from 993 was considered to be the first written mention of Ústí nad Labem, but its legitimacy has been called into question. In the second half of the 13th century, King Ottokar II invited

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settlers into the country and granted them a German form of municipal incorporation, thereby founding the city proper. In 1423, as King of Bohemia,

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pledged the town to Elector

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, who occupied it with a

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garrison. On 16 June 1426, after the city was besieged by the 25,000

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, the besiegers defeat a German army of 70,000 troops was sent to its relief but the Hussites defeated the Germans amid great slaughter. The next day, the Hussites stormed and razed the town. It was left derelict for three years before rebuilding began in 1429.

16th–19th centuries

Ústí nad Labem was again burned down in 1583 and was sacked by the

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in 1639 amid the

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. It also suffered grievously during the

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and was near the 1813

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between

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and the alliance of

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, and

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during the

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. As late as 1830, its population was only 1,400. As part of the

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, it was eventually incorporated into the

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and heavily industrialized over the 19th century. After the

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, it headed the Aussig District, one of Austrian Bohemia's 94 district commissions (). In the 1870s, with only 11,000 people, it was a major producer of woolen goods,

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, paper, ships, and chemicals and carried on a large trade in grain, fruit,

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, lumber, and coal. By 1900, large-scale immigration had boosted the population to nearly 40,000, mostly German, and added

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and

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to its trades. The local river port became the busiest in the entire

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, surpassing even the seaport in

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20th century

The factories of Aussig—as it was then known—were an early centre of the

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. The German Workers' Party in Austria () was founded on 15 November 1903 and later gave rise to the

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and

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. Their books continued to be printed in Ústí nad Labem even after the formation of

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in 1918. During the 1930 census, Ústí nad Labem was home to 43,793 residents: 32,878 considered German, 8,735 Czech or Slovak, 222 Jews, 16 Russians, and 11 Hungarians. Ústí nad Labem was ceded to

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with the rest of the

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in October 1938 under the terms of the

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and placed under the administration of the ''Regierungsbezirk Aussig'' of the

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. On New Year's Eve of that year, the Nazis burnt down the local

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; a meat factory was later raised in its place. The Jewish community in Ústí nad Labem was mostly exterminated over the course of

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amid

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. In April 1945, the city was severely bombed by the

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. Under the terms of the Potsdam Conference and the

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, the city was restored to

and almost the totality of its previous population expelled as being German.

Ústí massacre

Shortly after the war ended, on 31 July 1945, an explosion of the local ammunition depot triggered a

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of the German population, known as the Ústí massacre, mostly at the hands of out-of-town paramilitary groups. Whilst the official government investigation attributed the explosion to Nazi Werwolves (German saboteurs), contemporary historians have questioned the attribution as several other equally probable possibilities have been proposed. The pogrom was used as part of the justification of the Potsdam Conference to deport German citizens from Czechoslovakia, as continued cohabitation was argued to be impossible. It is estimated that between 80 and a 100 people died in the explosion and subsequent murders, nearly double the 43 confirmed victims.

After World War II

In May 1948, the

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government passed a new constitution declaring a people's republic. Beginning in the 1960s dissidence and general unhappiness with communist rule gave way to new artistic pursuits tackling the country's issues, Ústí nad Labem was primarily representative of this with Kladivadlo, a theatre which moved to Ústí nad Labem after it ran into issues with support from organizers, and Dialog a monthly political magazine. The city gained notoriety in 1999, when the Matiční Street Wall was built to separate Matiční Street with mainly

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population from other residents, which turned into an international scandal. The wall was torn down after six weeks of its existence.

Demographics

Economy

Ústí nad Labem is the economic centre of the Ústí nad Labem Region and the seat of many industrial companies. The largest industrial employers with its headquarters in Ústí nad Labem and at least 500 employees are Spolek pro chemickou a hutní výrobu (chemical industry) and Strabag Rail (construction industry). Other large industrial companies in the city include Kone Industrial (manufacture of elevators), Severotisk (printing industry) and Pierburg (manufacture of car parts).

Transport

Road transport

The D8 motorway (part of the

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) from Prague to

intersects the western border of Ústí nad Labem. The

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from

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, formed by first class road, also passes through the city. Mariánský Bridge is a road bridge over the

which was built over a period of five years and opened in 1998. It bleongs to the main landmarks of the city.

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ranked Mariánský Bridge between the 10 best structures of the world in the decade.

City mass transport

The city has a network of mass transport that includes bus and

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lines. The city has its own transport company, ''Dopravní podnik města Ústí nad Labem''.

Railway transport

Ústí nad Labem is an important railway node with four railway stations. The largest of these is Ústí nad Labem main railway station which is served by international

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trains. Ústí nad Labem lies on the line from Prague to Děčín, which is part of several international lines, and thus the city has direct connections with

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and

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. Lines of national importance are Prague–

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and Ústí nad Labem –

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River transport

The

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–

Chvaletice Chvaletice () is a town in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants. Administrative division Chvaletice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): ...

– Ústí nad Labem –

Hřensko Hřensko () is a municipality and village in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants. With an elevation of above sea level, it is the lowest situated municipality in the country. Located ...

– Hamburg.

Air transport

An airport for small sports planes ( ICAO code LKUL) is located northwest of the city. The nearest airports for airliners are in

(64 km) and

, Germany (56 km).

Education

The city is home of the

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (, abbreviated as UJEP) is a public university in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. The institution was established on 28 September 1991. It bears the name of famous Czech scientist J ...

. This public university has about 8,500 students and with about 900 employees, it is one of the most important employers in the region.

Sport

The local ice hockey club

HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi HC Slovan Ústečti Lvi is an ice hockey team in the Czech 2nd League ('' 2. národní hokejová liga'') (the second division). Their home arena is Zimní stadion Ústí nad Labem in Ústí nad Labem. The team was known as HC Slovan Ústí nad la ...

. The

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club is

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, which plays at the Městský stadion. The city hosts the Ústí nad Labem Half Marathon, one of the

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. During the 1950s and 1960s, the

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team AMK Ústí nad Labem raced in the city. It raced initially at a stadium in the Bukov area until it was converted into an athletics facility in 1960. Then the team raced at a track in the Klíše area from 1967 to 1968 and finally in Polepy. The team raced in the inaugural 1956 Czechoslovak Championship and won two silver medals and three bronze medals from 1961 to 1971.

Sights

The

Střekov Castle Střekov Castle (, ) is a ruined castle in Ústí nad Labem in the Central Bohemian Highlands in the Czech Republic. It is perched atop a cliff above the Elbe river. It was built in the 14th century to protect the waterway and collect duties on ...

is one of the main sights of Ústí nad Labem, and one of the most visited tourist destinations in the whole region. It is located in a southern suburb of the city. The castle was built in 1316–1319. With a break in 1945–1992, it has been owned by the

Lobkowicz family The House of Lobkowicz (''Lobkovicové'' in modern Czech, sg. ''z Lobkovic''; ''Lobkowitz'' in German) is an important Bohemian noble family that dates back to the 14th century and is one of the oldest noble families of the region. Over the cent ...

since 1563. The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built in 1318 and is located in the city centre. It is well known for its leaning tower. The tower is high and its deviation, caused by bombing at the end of World War II, is . It is the most leaning tower north of the

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. A significant landmark is the hill Větruše with an observation tower and the Větruše Castle, which was built in 1847 as a hotel and restaurant serving cultural and social purposes. In Krásné Březno part is located the

Ústí nad Labem Zoo Ústí nad Labem Zoological Gardens is a zoo located on the edge of Ústí nad Labem#Administrative division, Krásné Březno, close to the centre of the city of Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. The gardens cover an area of , and lets vis ...

, founded in 1908. A notable building is the Krásné Březno Castle. It is formed by the Old Castle, built before 1568, and by the New Castle, built in the early 17th century and modified in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century. The castle is surrounded by an English park. Nowadays the castle serves as the seat of the branch of National Heritage Institute of the Czech Republic.

Notable people

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter wh ...

(1728–1779), German painter * Mimi Wagensonner (1897–1970), Austrian composer *

Felix Weinberg Felix Jiri Weinberg FRS (2 April 1928 – 5 December 2012) was a Czech-British physicist. He was Emeritus Professor of Combustion Physics and Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Life Felix Weinberg was born on 2 April 1 ...

(1928–2012), Czech-British physicist *

Günther Herbig Günther Herbig (born 30 November 1931) is a German conductor. Born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, Herbig studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar in 1951 (then in East Germany) with Hermann Abendroth. He later was a stude ...

(born 1931), German conductor * Alfred Lipka (1931–2010), German violist * Vladimír Páral (born 1932), writer *

Heinz Edelmann Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' brought him additional recognition around the world. ...

(1934–2009), Czech-German illustrator and designer *

Milan Hejduk Milan Hejduk (; born February 14, 1976) is a Czech–American former professional ice hockey forward. Nicknamed "the Duke", he spent his entire 14-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Colorado Avalanche and retired holding the recor ...

(born 1976), ice hockey player *

Jiří Jarošík Jiří Jarošík (born 27 October 1977) is a Czech professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Kazakhstani club Shakhter Karagandy. In his playing career, he played as a defender and midfielder. Jarošík started his ...

(born 1977), footballer * Petra Gelbart (born 1978), musicologist, musician, music therapist and human rights defender *

Jan Mertl Jan Mertl (born 3 January 1982) is a Czech former tennis player who competed mainly on the ITF Futures Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. On 23 July 2007, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 163. Mertl made his ATP main draw debut at 201 ...

(born 1982), tennis coach and player *

Tomáš Černý Tomáš Černý (born 10 April 1985) is a Czech retired professional association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Černý has played football in the Czech Republic, Scotland, Bulgaria and Greece ...

(born 1985), footballer *

Michal Neuvirth Michal Neuvirth ( , ; born 23 March 1988) is a Czech former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for the Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selecte ...

(born 1988), ice hockey player

Twin towns – sister cities

Ústí nad Labem is twinned with: *

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

, Germany * Halton, England, United Kingdom Ústí nad Labem also cooperates with

, Germany.

Gallery

Ústí nad Labem, Větruše, přes Labe (02).jpg, Větruše Castle ZamekKrasneBrezno1.JPG, Krásné Březno Castle Ústí nad Labem, Centrum, Trolejbus Škoda 22Tr.JPG, Municipal trolleybus Z Erbenovy vyhlídky, směr Střekov (01).jpg, Panorama from a nearby observation tower Holocaust memorial in Ústí nad Labem, 2012, 01.JPG, Holocaust memorial built in 2005

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Architecture in Ústí nad Labem
{{DEFAULTSORT:Usti Nad Labem Populated places in Ústí nad Labem District Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Romani communities in the Czech Republic Populated riverside places in the Czech Republic Populated places on the Elbe