Qualla: Liberec https://qualla.com/liberec en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Liberec https://qualla.com/liberec Liberec: Introduction https://qualla.com/liberec/ The city has two names, and the Czech one began as a slip of the tongue. German speakers called it Reychinberch in 1352 and Reichenberg soon after - rich mountain, and the mountain paid. Czech speakers tended to dissimilate an initial R into an L, so the record logs Rychberk in 1545, Libercum in 1634, Liberk in 1790 and, finally, Liberec in 1845. For six centuries both names described the same streets, spoken by neighbours. Then, inside a single decade, one of them stopped being used here at all. Liberec today is a Czech city of about 108,000 people, fifth largest in the country, sitting in a basin on the Lusatian Neisse with mountains on every side. Very few of its residents descend from the people who built it.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/8/liberec-wp/u348-liberec-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Liberec: The Manchester of Bohemia https://qualla.com/liberec/ A settlement called Habersdorf appeared here in the 11th or 12th century, on the trade route running from Bohemia into Lusatia, put up by Czech settlers and German colonists together; a second settlement named Reichenberg followed in the 13th century, and the two grew into each o...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/8/liberec-wp/u348-liberec-what-the-looms-paid-for.mp3 0:06 3 full Liberec: Two Claims to the Same Ground https://qualla.com/liberec/ When Austria-Hungary collapsed, both sides in this city reached for the same argument. The Czechs of Bohemia joined the new Czechoslovakia on 29 October 1918; on 12 November the German-speaking majority here declared for a reduced German Austria, and Liberec was named capital of ...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/8/liberec-wp/u348-liberec-two-claims-to-the-same-ground.mp3 0:06 4 full Liberec: Seven Years https://qualla.com/liberec/ Out of that hunger came the Sudeten German Party, founded by Konrad Henlein, who had been born in the suburbs of this city. After the 1935 election Liberec became a centre of Pan-German and then Nazi organising - despite a mayor, Karl Kostka of the German Democratic Freedom Party...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/4/8/liberec-wp/u348-liberec-seven-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Liberec: Where the Synagogue Stood https://qualla.com/liberec/ The Regional Research Library was founded in 1900, and in 2000 it opened a new building on the site of the Old Synagogue that the Nazis burned in November 1938. Two things sit inside it. One is a large collection of Germano-Slavica and Sudetica - the German-language books and per...

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