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18-1455: Liberec District is divided into three administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence : Liberec, Frýdlant and Turnov . The town of Turnov is located in the neighbouring Semily District and it is the only such administrative district in the country whose borders do not correspond to the borders of the district. Cities and towns are marked in bold and market towns in italics : Bílá - Bílý Kostel nad Nisou - Bílý Potok - Bulovka - Černousy - Český Dub - Cetenov - Chotyně - Chrastava - Čtveřín - Dětřichov - Dlouhý Most - Dolní Řasnice - Frýdlant - Habartice - Hejnice - Heřmanice - Hlavice - Hodkovice nad Mohelkou - Horní Řasnice - Hrádek nad Nisou - Jablonné v Podještědí - Janovice v Podještědí - Janův Důl - Jeřmanice - Jindřichovice pod Smrkem - Kobyly - Krásný Les - Křižany - Kryštofovo Údolí - Kunratice - Lázně Libverda - Lažany - Liberec - Mníšek - Nová Ves - Nové Město pod Smrkem - Oldřichov v Hájích - Osečná - Paceřice - Pěnčín - Pertoltice - Příšovice - Proseč pod Ještědem - Radimovice - Raspenava - Rynoltice - Šimonovice - Soběslavice - Stráž nad Nisou - Světlá pod Ještědem - Svijanský Újezd - Svijany - Sychrov - Višňová - Vlastibořice - Všelibice - Žďárek - Zdislava Liberec District borders Poland in

36-648: A height of 1,123 m (3,684 ft). The summit offers a panoramic view to the prominent Sněžka peak of the Giant Mountains in the east, as well as to the Lusatian Highlands beyond the German border in the west up to the cooling towers of Boxberg Power Station . The "Tabulový kámen" ( Tafelstein ) stone monument on the northern slope marks the site, which since the Middle Ages formed

54-545: A special status, being considered a municipality and region at the same time and not being a part of any district, but ten districts of Prague ( obvody ) were in some ways equivalent to okres . A reform in effect since January 2003 replaced the districts with 205 Administrative Districts of Municipalities with Extended Competence (abbreviated AD MEC; správní obvody obcí s rozšířenou působností , abbreviated SO ORP ), also called third-level municipalities, or unofficially "little districts". These municipalities took over most of

72-510: Is a municipality to which the state delegates part of its powers, but not to the extent that it delegates it to a municipality with extended competence. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Smrk (Jizera Mountains) Smrk ( Polish : Smrek ; German : Tafelfichte )

90-710: Is the highest mountain in the Czech part of the Jizera Mountains . Rising 1,124 m (3,688 ft), it is sometimes known as "The King of the Jizera Mountains". The top of the mountain lies in the municipal territory of Lázně Libverda in the Liberec Region of northern Bohemia . On the eastern rim of the plateau is the boundary with Poland ; the Polish summit west of Świeradów-Zdrój reaches

108-758: The 14th century, and part of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1526. After Upper Lusatia passed to the Electorate of Saxony during the Thirty Years' War by the 1635 Peace of Prague , and the Prussian king Frederick the Great conquered Silesia in 1742, the mountain was also the tripoint between the Saxon, Prussian and Austrian lands. According to the 1815 Congress of Vienna , Prussia also annexed

126-663: The 2021 reform, borders of AD MECs respect borders of districts, with only exception granted by law being AD MEC of Turnov, which is partly in districts of Semily, Jablonec nad Nisou and Liberec. The reasons are the vastness of this territory and different requirements of the territory's population. Administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence are further divided into 393 Administrative Districts of Municipalities with Commissioned Local Authority (abbreviated AD CLA; správní obvody obcí s pověřeným obecním úřadem , abbreviated SO POÚ), also called "second-level municipalities"). A municipality with commissioned local authority

144-695: The Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe . The second protected landscape area in the territory is Lužické hory, situated in the west. The largest employers with headquarters in Liberec District and at least 1,000 employees are: A short section of the D10 motorway from Prague , which further continues as the R/35 expressway to Liberec and Chrastava (part of the European route E442 ) and then forks to

162-661: The Czech Republic#Municipalities with extended competence Districts of the Czech Republic are territorial units, formerly used as second-level administrative divisions of the Czech Republic . After their primary administrative function has been abolished in 2003, they still exist for the activities of specific authorities and as statistical units. Their administrative function was moved to selected municipalities. In 1960, Czechoslovakia

180-821: The I/13 road to Děčín and to the I/35 road to Zittau , runs through the district. A section of the I/35 road runs from Liberec to Frýdlant and the Czech-Polish border. The most important monuments in the district, protected as national cultural monuments , are: The best-preserved settlements and landscapes, protected as monument zones , are: The most visited tourist destinations are the Liberec Zoo , iQ Landia science centre in Liberec, DinoPark Liberec, Centrum Babylon Liberec, and Sychrov Castle. Districts of

198-524: The Upper Lusatian lands in the northwest, which were incorporated into the Province of Silesia . On 21 August 1892, a wooden observation tower , which was 20 m (66 ft) high, was built atop Tafelfichte. The mountain hut used to house the construction workers was converted, after the tower's construction, to a cottage ( Baude , bouda ). Until 1935, up to 18,000 people per year visited

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216-490: The administration of the former district authorities. The old districts still exist as territorial units and remain as seats of some of the offices, especially courts , police and archives . In 2007 the borders of the districts were slightly adjusted and 119 municipalities were moved into different districts. In 2021 another reform was made and 18 municipalities were moved between districts or between administrative districts of municipalities with extended competence. After

234-738: The district's area. Several notable rivers originate in the territory. The Lusatian Neisse and Smědá drain water into the Baltic Sea , and the Ploučnice and Jizera drain water into the North Sea . The area is poor in bodies of water. The Jizerské hory Protected Landscape Area is located in the east of the district. It includes the Czech part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site named Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of

252-534: The historic tripoint between The mountain got its name from a once mighty spruce ( Czech : smrk , German: Fichte ) tree near the border, where the Imperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein , after his elevation to a Duke of Friedland , nailed his coat of arms in 1628. The tree was uprooted, in 1790, by a storm. Bohemia, Silesia and Lusatia had all been Lands of the Bohemian Crown since

270-491: The mountain summit. In 1909, a memorial stone honoring the German poet Theodor Körner was erected at the summit to commemorate his stay a hundred years before. After World War II the local German population was expelled and the cottage was deserted and looted. The abandoned premises fell into disrepair and the tower collapsed in the 1950s. Over the following decades forest dieback , from parasites or acid rain, has cleared

288-438: The north and briefly Germany in the northwest. The terrain is very diverse, with large differences in altitude, and hilly landscape prevails. The territory extends into seven geomorphological mesoregions: Frýdlant Hills (north), Jizera Mountains (east), Zittau Basin (centre), Ještěd–Kozákov Ridge (a strip from centre to southeast), Jičín Uplands (south), Ralsko Uplands (southwest) and Lusatian Mountains (a small part in

306-766: The west). The highest point of the district is the mountain Smrk in Lázně Libverda with an elevation of 1,124 m (3,688 ft), the most dominant feature of the southern part of the district is Ještěd at 1,012 m (3,320 ft). The lowest point is the river bed of the Smědá in Černousy at 210 m (690 ft). From the total district area of 989.3 km (382.0 sq mi), agricultural land occupies 465.4 km (179.7 sq mi), forests occupy 421.3 km (162.7 sq mi), and water area occupies 9.8 km (3.8 sq mi). Forests cover 42.6% of

324-469: Was re-divided into districts ( okres , plural okresy ) often without regard to traditional division and local relationships. In the area of the Czech Republic, there were 75 districts; the 76th Jeseník District was split from Šumperk District in 1996. Three consisted only of statutory cities Brno , Ostrava and Plzeň which gained the status of districts only in 1971; Ostrava and Plzeň districts were later expanded. The capital city of Prague has

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