Mikulášovice


Mikulášovice is a town in the Czech Republic.
Mikulášovice is a city with 2,375 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. The elongated village in the valley of the brook Mikulášovický is 414 m above sea level in the west of the Bohemian low country near the border with Germany and belongs to the Děčín District. Between Mikulášovice and 7 km north-west German neighbor Sebnitz is the 598 m high Tanečnice, the mountain of the community.
It is the birthplace and home town of the famous German soprano Anni Frind.
The company Mikov, producing popular knife Rybička, has its seat in Mikulášovice.
From 1938 to 1945 it was occupied by Germany, before it was liberated by Polish soldiers in May 1945 and restored to Czechoslovakia. In the final stages of World War II, in May 1945, the prisoners of the AL Bautzen subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, evacuated from Bautzen to Mikulášovice by the Germans, were liberated there by Polish soldiers.

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