Jáchymov
Sign in to saveJáchymov (; 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.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jáchymov
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Jáchymov 2016 a.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Upper Jáchymov
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Jáchymov.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Jáchymov_znak2.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Karlovy Vary
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Karlovy Vary
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Czech Republic
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Czech Republic
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jiří Kaucký
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1516
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Administrative division
- Etymology
- Geography
- History
- 16th–17th centuries
- 18th–20th centuries
- Uranium mining
- Demographics
- Spa
- Transport
- Sport
- Sights
- Sacral monuments
- Spa architecture
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Jáchymov (; 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.
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 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 was also the first (and for a long time the only) place in the world where radium was mined.