Smíchov

Coordinates: 50°04′31″N 14°24′20″E / 50.07528°N 14.40556°E / 50.07528; 14.40556
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Smíchov, on the left bank of the river Vltava as seen from Vyšehrad
The angel on Jean Nouvel's building Golden Angel. The ČKD T3 tram was built in a factory located 100 meters from the crossing.

Smíchov (German: Smichow) is (since 1922) a district of Prague,[1][2] the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is on the west bank of the Vltava river.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
186915,382—    
188024,984+62.4%
189032,646+30.7%
190047,135+44.4%
191051,791+9.9%
192156,249+8.6%
193060,195+7.0%
195061,854+2.8%
196163,330+2.4%
197055,623−12.2%
198049,309−11.4%
199139,179−20.5%
200133,624−14.2%
201133,460−0.5%
Source: Censuses[3]

History

It was only on 22 February 1903, that Smíchov was elevated to a city by imperial decision, and on 21 January 1904, Smíchov was granted a city coat of arms. In 1910 population of Smíchov was 51,791.[4] After the first world war on the basis of the Act on Great Prague, Smíchov was attached to Great Prague in 1922 as part of its new urban district Prague XVI.[1][2]

The

Zličín in the 1990s and is now operated by Siemens
. The buildings were demolished and replaced by a hypermarket, two multiplex cinemas, two hotels and several other commercial structures.

After the first world war the company based in Bohemia and Moravia hold strong positions in Czechoslovak heavy metal industries. Under occupation by Nazi Germany the "

Hermann-Göring-Werke to absorb it. This struggle required a certain level of cooperation with the authorities of the "Third Reich". Ringhoffer-Tatra was nationalized and dissolved after the liberation and restoration of Czechoslovakia in 1945. The last owner and general manager, Baron Hans (Hanus) Ringhoffer
(1885–1946) died one year later in detention, the family was expelled without compensation.

Founder of the firm was the coppersmith and inventor Franz Ringhoffer (1744–1827), native of Müllendorf (nowadays in the Austrian province of Burgenland near the Hungarian border), who arrived in Prague in 1769. He set up his workshop in the Old Town and produced brewery pans besides distillery and agrarian technical equipment. His son Joseph (1785–1847) established a hammer mill in Kamenice and extended the business by adapting it to the manufacture of special products for sugar factories and distilleries. Joseph's son Franz (II) (1817–1873), the first Baron Ringhoffer, obtained by government decree a concession for the manufacture of all categories of metal work and machinery for the whole country. He perceived the opportunity offered by railway development and started in 1852 the production of vehicles in Smichov, where he added an iron-foundry. The Works became the largest rolling-stock factory in the former Austrian Empire and then in Czechoslovakia.[5]

Between 1945 and 1989, the district contained a

Staropramen
brewery is located in Smíchov.

Education

The

Lycée Français de Prague, the French international school, is in Smíchov.[7][8]

In popular culture

  • 1995 – an escalator scene from Svěrák's Kolya was shot in Smíchov.
  • 1999 –
    Jewish synagogue
    , the half-demolished Ringhoffer factory, St Wenceslas Church and the Bertramka cemetery.
  • 2009-now - Dollar Prync - hood hero, famous rapper , gipsy king

People

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Praha přes noc pořádně vyrostla. V roce 1922 získala 37 nových bratříčků" (in Czech). idnes.cz. January 2018. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  2. ^ a b "Zákon ze dne 6. února 1920, kterým se sousední obce a osady slučují s Prahou" (in Czech). beck-online.cz. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  3. ^ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Praha" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21. pp. 7–8.
  4. ^ Die Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910 (in German). Vienna. 1912. p. 47.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Fabini, Pavel. Smíchov v éře Ringhofferů. https://www.ipetka.cz/index.php/2017/09/23/smichov-v-ere-ringhofferu/
  6. ISBN 978-0-299-24893-2
    .
  7. Lycée Français de Prague
    . Retrieved on 20 February 2015. "Drtinova 304/7"
  8. Lycée Français de Prague
    . 12 January 2003. Retrieved on 20 February 2015. "Adresse du lycée : Drtinova 7 - 150 00 Praha 5 Smichov"
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