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1) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1687 (reportedly)
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The oldest known picture of the locality. In the middle, the Church of St. Ann, as it looked before its baroque reconstruction, in 1680s. Above the church, Zlatý Lev Inn (Golden Lion), on the left, in the place of the future Merkur, the Stará Kovárna
(Old Smithy).
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2) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1784 (reportedly)
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The Church of St. Ann (already after the baroque reconstruction, made beautiful by a spire of 1706), kept being the hub of the community. The conspicuous building to the right of the church is a baroque sick house of that time. Among about four hundred houses an old parish house and the Inns U Zeleného Stromu (At Green Tree) and Koruna (Crown) can be found opposite the vista of 1687.
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3) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1848
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The former cemetery around the Church of St. Ann was changed into the foundations of today‘s Anenská Náměstí (Ann‘s Square). The stone houses had already been erected in Ulice Komenského (Comenius Street) and on today‘s Mírové Náměstí (Peace Square). At the far right, the building of the Lutheran Church, without a spire at that
time.
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| 4) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1863 |
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A few stone houses had been added to the panorama and a wooden spire had been built onto the Lutheran
Church.
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| 5) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1888 |
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The network of streets and lanes became substantially denser from 1863 to 1888; There is already Dolní Náměstí (Lower Square) with the Old Town-hall. The left segment of the vista was dominated originally by the district hospital (nowadays, the U Balvanu Grammar School); even further to the left, a new building of the railroad station and the first trains on the railroad line Jablonec n.N. - Liberec.
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6) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1901
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The left half of the photo features the building of today s Sokol Hall which cannot be overlooked. On the right, the still empty Mírové Square, further right the Synagogue with its two characteristic domes and the Lutheran Church (with its typical slender stone spire after the neogothic reconstruction in 1892). Below the church (above todays bus station) the construction of the highrises, called American houses, having been
launched.
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7) Jablonec n.N. - downtown view, 1932
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At the beginning of 1930s, the development of the town‘s center was finished by founding Horní Náměstí (Upper Square ) and the construction of a new Catholic Church, but first of all by building the monumental New Town-hall on Mírové Square (partially still under scaffolding in the picture). The building of Jablonec‘s Technical School of Arts was there, too, in roughly its current
appearance.
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8) Jablonec n.N. - overall view, 1952
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The town‘s panorama had not changed much since the thirties. Worth noting is a magnificent building of the old Merkur on the left, between the Sokol Hall and St. Anns Church.
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