Kořenov () is a municipality and village in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the

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of the

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. It has about 900 inhabitants. It lies in the

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Administrative division

Kořenov consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Kořenov (393) * Jizerka (18) *Polubný (166) *Příchovice (253) *Rejdice (34)

Etymology

The village was probably named after the hill Kořenov. The name of the hill was derived either from the personal name Kořen or from the word ''kořen'', i.e. 'root' (meaning "a hill full of tree roots"). The German name ''Wurzelsdorf'', meaning 'root village', was created by translation of the Czech name.

Geography

Kořenov is located about east of

Jablonec nad Nisou Jablonec nad Nisou (; ) is a city in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in the region. It is a local centre for education, and is known for its glass and jewelry production, espe ...

and east of

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, on the border with Poland. It lies in the

and in the eponymous protected landscape area. The highest point is the mountain Černý vrch at above sea level. The Jizera River forms here the entire Czech-Polish border and then shortly crosses the territory of Kořenov. The Černá Desná Stream originates in the woods in the northwestern part of the municipality.

Climate

History

The first settlers came to the remote forested area in northern

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in 1577 when Paul Schürer von Walthaimb established one of the oldest

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in the region at Rejdice. The glassworks operated until 1720. After the 1620

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, the lands were seized by

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, who sold them to the comital Desfours dynasty. In the 18th century, German colonists came to this region. The estates were acquired by the noble

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in 1824. In 1902, the Tanvald–Kořenov cog railway connecting to the electrified Izera railway line running to

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n ''Hirschberg'' (present-day

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) was put into operation. The German-speaking population was expelled after 1945. The municipality was established in 1960 by the merger of the former

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of Polubný and Příchovice with Rejdice and Jizerka. Kořenov was only an administrative part of Polubný, however the new municipality adopted its name. Part of Kořenov, the former hamlet of Údolí Naděje (''Hoffnungstal'', ), belonged to

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between 1945 and 1958. As part of the interstate agreement on territorial exchange, the territory then fell to

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Demographics

Transport

Kořenov is located on the railway line

–

Szklarska Poręba Szklarska Poręba () is a town in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. The town has a population of around 6,500. It is a popular ski resort. An important regional and national centre for mountain hiking, cycli ...

Sights

Štěpánka is the oldest observation tower in the Jizera Mountains. It was built on Hvězda mountain () in 1847. The tower is high and belongs to the most popular tourist destinations in the mountain range. Tesařov chapel is a protestant chapel, built according to plans of Otto Bartning in 1909. Today si is used by the

Moravian Church The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren ( or ), formally the (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the original ...

. The Church of Saint John in Polubný was built in 1789–1793. It is a Neoclassical building with Neoromanesque interiors. The Tanvald–Harrachov cog railway passes through Kořenov. It was built in 1899–1902. It is known for the steepest gradient of a railway in the country (up to 58 ‰) and for the Polubenský Tunnel, which belongs to the longest in the country with a length of .

Notable people

* Berthold Bartosch (1893–1968), film director * Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), skier * Claus Josef Riedel (1925–2004), glassmaker * Ladislav Rygl Sr. (born 1947), skier

References

External links

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Tanvald–Harrachov cog railway
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