Otázka: Jihlava – Vysočina
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): Sara
OUR TOWN
1. Vysočina region border: Moravia, Bohemia, … hilly, woods, forests, fields, meadows-farmers-potatoes, rye(žito),oats
Water system: ponds, streams, rivers
Symbol: hedgehog
2. Population: 50 000 people
In the centre, in the large housing estates
Big residential quartiers(velké obytné domy)-detache, semidetache houses
Gypsies
3. Mayor of the town
City transport – buses, taxis, trolleybusses(electrycity), … ticket, controls, black passengers
4. History of Jihlava:
The hamlet of Jihlava grew up on the river of Jihlava.
13th century-silver was dicovered here, Jihlava become a royal mining town
Wooden, dwellings, houses
Fortress (pevnost)- protect Jihlava from enemies and robbers
Prosperity-didn´t for long time
Jihlava- Kutná hora … silver
- had to find something else .. cloth making, trade (obchod) – trateroad
Husits movement- was against them
30 years war-Jihlava destroyed and occupated by Swiss (Švýcaři)
Swiss and German came … Jihlava become German city
5. Historic side:
Was sorronded by town walls with 5 gates (today 1 remade- called Matky Boží)
Lot of churches –
- Church of St. Jacob (Jakubův) famous bell Zuzana
- Church of St. Ignacius (Sv. Ignáce – na náměstí)
- Church of St. Cross (kříže)
Square: 1 of biggest
- Undergrond corridor=catacomby
- There used to be cellars (sklepy)
- 2 fountains – upper (morový sloup) … Plaque Columne
6.Economy
Industrial town…machinery(strojírenství), used to be textile industry(Modeta)
Big factory … Bosch, Automotive Lighting, Kronospan(polluted our air)
Food industry
- … Kostelec (sausages, ham)
- …bakery – Větrný Jeníkov, Kamenice
- …classworks – Světlá nad Sázavou
Brewerry(pivovar)-beer with trate mark Ježek
Zoo Jihlava- after reconstruction, problém with pinguins
OUR REGION
Čeřínek- ski, a slope, walking
Hill Šacberk, Nové Město
Castles(Telč, Roštejn)
Roštejn ……………………Telč
Ruins, ruins of castle, chateau
Perštejn- castle -Mrs. White women
INTERESTING PLACES
Zelená hora…. Close Žďár(nad Žďárem),UNESCO, church on hill
Polná – the biggest baroque organ(varhany)
