[ 4K ] Zittau,Germany 🇩🇪 To Liberec,Czech 🇨🇿 Driving from Germany-Poland-Czech Border

Liberec ( German: Reichenberg ) is a statutory city in the Liberec District in northern Bohemia and the regional and university city of the Liberec Region . With its approximately 103 thousand inhabitants, it is the fifth largest city in the Czech Republic .
Together with the neighboring Jablonec nad Nisou and the surrounding villages, it forms a wider residential agglomeration , the cadastre of the city itself includes the village of Stráž nad Nisou as an enclave . Liberec is a founding member of the Nisa Euroregion , and since 2004 its capital.

Location
Liberec is located approximately 91 km north-northeast of Prague and 99 km north-northwest of Hradec Králové . The city is located in the Liberecká Basin of the Žitav Basin between the Ještěd-Kozák Ridge in the south and the Jizera Mountains in the northeast. The foot of the town hall is at a height of 374 m above sea level, the highest point of the city cadastre is the peak of Ještěd (1012 m above sea level), the lowest is the Nisa level in the northern part of Machnín ( 325 m above sea level ) . on which the Harcovská dam is located. Natural bodies of water are ponds: for example, Vesecký (so-called Teich), Kačák (Zabák) in Krásná Studánka or the Seba pond (dyke) in Janov Dol.

View of Liberec from Ještěd

Until 1939, Liberec covered an area of ​​6.2 km², which today represents the historical center of the city. After the annexation of 11 municipalities on May 1, 1939, the city grew by another 23 municipalities in 1954, 1963, 1976, 1980 and 1986. After 1989, on the other hand, four municipalities separated from the city. The area of ​​the city cadastre is thus 106.09 km². Of this, 35.2% is agricultural land, over half of which is meadows and pastures. Two-thirds of the non-agricultural land is forest land (total 39.9% of the area).

ZITTAU
Zittau is the southeastern most city in the German state of Saxony, and is located in the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district. It has a population of around 25,000, and is one of the most important cities in the region of Lusatia (Upper Lusatia).

The inner city of Zittau still shows its original beauty with many houses from several architectural periods: the famous town hall built in an Italian style, the church of St John and the stables (Salzhaus) with its medieval heritage. This multi-storied building is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany

Memorial to the victims of Nazi Germany
During World War II, a labour camp was located in the city. It provided forced labour for Phänomen Werke Gustav Hiller, a truck-manufacturing company (which became VEB Kraftfahrzeugwerk Phänomen after the war, renamed VEB Robur-Werke Zittau in 1957).

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