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Jáchymov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaːxɪmof]); German: Sankt Joachimsthal or Joachimsthal) is a spa town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,300 inhabitants. The historical core of the town from the 16th century is well preserved and protected by law as urban monument zone. It is a comprehensive set of Gothic–Renaissance patrician houses. Jáchymov has a long mining tradition, thanks to which it used to be the second most populous town in the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1534. At first silver was mined here. The silver Joachimsthaler coins minted here since the 16th century gave their name to the Thaler and the dollar. After the Wieliczka Salt Mine ceased industrial exploitation in 2007, the Svornost mine (1525) became the oldest mine still in use in Europe. It is also the first and for a long time the only mine in the world, where radium was mined. The mining cultural landscape of Jáchymov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a part of the Ore Mountain Mining Region.

cultural landscape thaler joachimsthal

References

  1. "Po stopách jáchymovského tolaru" (in cs). Živý kraj. https://zivykraj.cz/zajimave-vylety/po-stopach-jachymovskeho-tolaru/. 
  2. "Jáchymov" (in cs). Živý kraj. https://zivykraj.cz/zajimave-vylety/jachymov/. 
  3. Anderson, Hepzibah (2019-05-28). "The Curious Origins of the Dollar". http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190528-the-curious-origin-of-the-symbol. 
  4. "Welcome to Jáchymov: the Czech town that invented the dollar". BBC. 2020-01-08. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200107-welcome-to-jchymov-the-czech-town-that-invented-the-dollar. 
  5. "Spa Center Agricola". Léčebné lázně Jáchymov a.s.. https://www.laznejachymov.cz/en/Agricola/. 
  6. More about history of the town in the 16th and 17th centuries for example in the article of Lukáš M. Vytlačil: Příběh renesančního Jáchymova [The Story of renaissance Jáchymov]. Evagelicus 2017, Praha 2016. pp. 42-45. (on-line here) https://www.academia.edu/30089312/P%C5%99%C3%ADb%C4%9Bh_renesan%C4%8Dn%C3%ADho_J%C3%A1chymova_The_story_of_renaissance_J%C3%A1chymov_
  7. Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm Klein, 1967
  8. Heinrich, E. Wm. (1958). Mineralogy and Geology of Radioactive Raw Materials. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. pp. 283. 
  9. Wiskemann, Elizabeth (1938). Czechs and Germans. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509024. 
  10. ""Heisenberg-Würfel" verrät Details über Hitlers Atomprogramm" (in de). Der Spiegel (online). 2009-03-19. https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/nuklear-forensik-heisenberg-wuerfel-verraet-details-ueber-hitlers-atomprogramm-a-614227.html. 
  11. "Jáchymov – the oldest radon spa in the world". Czech Radio. 2021-07-30. https://english.radio.cz/best-spas-czech-republic-8721557/5. 
  12. "Radonová voda aktivuje imunitní systém" (in cs). Naše voda. https://www.nase-voda.cz/radonova-voda-aktivuje-imunitni-system/. 
  13. "Co se léčí v lázních Jáchymov" (in cs). Léčebné lázně Jáchymov a.s.. https://www.laznejachymov.cz/co-lecime/. 
  14. "Listina o přátelství měst Jáchymova a Schneebergu" (in cs). Město Jáchymov. https://www.mestojachymov.cz/listina-o-pratelstvi-mest-jachymova-a-schneebergu/d-4923. 
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