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Klatovy (Czech pronunciation: [ˈklatovɪ]; German: Klattau) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

Klatovy
Town
Black Tower and Jesuit Church
Flag Coat of arms
Klatovy Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 49°23′43″N 13°17′42″E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Plzeň
District	Klatovy
First mentioned	1253
Government
• Mayor	Rudolf Salvetr (ODS)
Area
• Total	80.85 km2 (31.22 sq mi)
Elevation	405 m (1,329 ft)
Population  (2021-01-01)[1]
• Total	22,140
• Density	270/km2 (710/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	339 01
Website	www.klatovy.cz

Administrative parts

Klatovy is made up of 30 administrative parts (5 town parts and 25 villages):

Habartice, Kvaslice and Vítkovice, and Dobrá Voda, Křištín and Střeziměř makes two exclaves of the municipal territory.

History

The first written mention of Klatovy is from 1253. Between 1260 and 1263, a royal town was made from the settlement by Ottokar II of Bohemia. The town walls were built and at the beginning of the 16th century, Klatovy was one of the ten most important towns in Czech lands.[2]

During World War II, Klatovy was occupied by Germany. The town was deprived of its natural administrative territory when large parts of Šumava were annexed to the Reich (the border was between Janovice nad Úhlavou and Nýrsko and south of Sušice). The Germans operated a Gestapo prison in the town.[3] At that time, Klatovy was the center of the resistance movement, which was harshly suppressed by the execution of 73 patriots in the Lubský Forest at the time of Heydrich. In 1945, some parts of the city were badly damaged by bombing – the railway station building was completely destroyed. Klatovy was liberated on 5 May 1945 by the US Army. The town's remaining German population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.

Demography

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1869 11,964 —     1880 14,059 +17.5% 1890 14,754 +4.9% 1900 16,960 +15.0% 1910 18,620 +9.8%	Year Pop. ±% 1921 18,085 −2.9% 1930 18,221 +0.8% 1950 17,213 −5.5% 1961 17,294 +0.5% 1970 19,087 +10.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1980 21,744 +13.9% 1991 23,098 +6.2% 2001 23,033 −0.3% 2011 22,133 −3.9% 2021 22,140 +0.0%
Source: Historical lexicon of municipalities of the Czech Republic[4]

Sport

The town's football club SK Klatovy 1898 is one of the oldest football clubs in the country.[5] Nowadays it plays in the fourth tier of the Czech football system.

Sights

The oldest part of the town surrounded by fragments of town walls is protected as an urban monument zone since 1992. The mains sights are:[6][2]

• Black Tower, built in 1547–1557 as a watchtower, nowadays a lookout tower open to the public;
• Baroque Jesuit Pharmacy with equipment from the 17th century;
• Baroque Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Saint Ignatius, built in 1655–1679, with catacombs under the church;
• Baroque Church of Saint Lawrence built in 1694–1709;
• Gothic houses on the Míru Square;
• Town museum in a Art Nouveau building from 1905;
• Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity of Mary from the end of the 13th century.

Notable people

Twin towns – sister cities

Klatovy is twinned with:[7]

• Cham, Germany
• Poligny, France

Gallery

• 
  Black Tower
• 
  White Tower
• 
  View to the southeast
• 
  Town museum
• 
  Klatovská hůrka hill

References

External links

• Official website
• Art gallery Klatovy/Klenová castle

На других языках

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[de] Klatovy

Klatovy (deutsch Klattau) ist eine Stadt in Tschechien. Sie liegt 43 Kilometer südlich von Pilsen im Bezirk Klatovy in der Region Plzeňský kraj.

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