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Neoclassical monument of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf dates from 1793. It was built as a thank you to Count Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch for the establishment of the Jánský vrch settlement. The late baroque Ditters' House from the 1780s is also an architectural monument. Today it houses a
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Germany when it was ambushed by over 100 local members of Freikorps. The Czechoslovak soldiers were disarmed and abducted to Germany where they were interned by local authorities in the concentration camp in
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The Church of the Holy
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