Srbská Kamenice () is a municipality and village in

Děčín District Děčín District () is a district in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Děčín. Administrative division Děčín District is divided into three administrative districts of municipalities with extende ...

in the

Ústí nad Labem Region Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region () is an Regions of the Czech Republic, administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad Labem. I ...

of the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Geography

Srbská Kamenice is located about northeast of

Děčín Děčín (; ) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It is the seventth largest municipality in the country by area. Děčín is an important traffic junction. Administrative division Děč ...

and northeast of

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. ...

. It lies in the

Elbe Sandstone Mountains The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, also called the Elbe Sandstone Highlands (, ; , ), are a mountain range straddling the border between the state of Saxony in southeastern Germany and the North Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, with about three-q ...

. The northern part of the municipality lies in the

Bohemian Switzerland Bohemian Switzerland (; ), also known as Czech Switzerland, is a nature region in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the northwestern Czech Republic, protected as a national park. It has been a protected area (as Elbe Sandstone Mountains Protected ...

National Park. The highest point is a contour line on the slopes of the

Růžovský vrch The Růžovský vrch () is a mountain in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the Czech Republic. The summit is located in the municipality of Růžová in the Ústí nad Labem Region. The mountain is protected as a national nature reserve named Rů ...

hill at above sea level. The Kamenice River flows through the municipality.

History

The first written mention of Srbská Kamenice is from 1352. It was founded in the early 11th century by

Sorbs Sorbs (; ; ; ; ; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs and Wends) are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Germany, states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs tradi ...

, refugees from the Holy Roman Empire after a military campaign of Emperor

Henry II Henry II may refer to: Kings * Saint Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (972–1024), crowned King of Germany in 1002, of Italy in 1004 and Emperor in 1014 *Henry II of England (1133–89), reigned from 1154 *Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1271–1 ...

. On 26 January 1972, Serbian flight attendant

Vesna Vulović Vesna Vulović ( sr-Cyrl, Весна Вуловић, ; 3 January 195023 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: or 33,333 feet. She was the sole survivor of JAT Flight 367 after an exp ...

was the only person on board to survive the crash of JAT Flight 367 which exploded at an altitude of over the village.

Demographics

Transport

There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights

The main landmark of Srbská Kamenice is the Church of Saint Wenceslaus. It was built in the Baroque style in 1772–1776. There is an

open-air museum An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is "the unconfined atmosphere ... outside buildings" ...

Czechoslovak border fortifications First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia built a system of border fortifications as well as some fortified defensive lines inland, from 1935 to 1938 as a defensive countermeasure against the rising threat of Nazi Germany. The objective of ...

, built in 1937–1938. It consists of a number of reinforced concrete fortresses.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Srbska Kamenice Villages in Děčín District Bohemian Switzerland Populated places established in the 11th century