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An employee housing estate built in the immediate vicinity of the factory was under construction from the mid-19th century to the 1920s.

The Liebieg Town is the most distinctive example of Art Nouveau apartment buildings in Liberec. It was designed by Jakob Schmeissner. The town includes a school and a nursery, as well as a firehouse. Nowadays, Pod Branou Square is a popular location for film crews from the Czech Republic and abroad. It has been used as the setting for movies such as: Beauty and the Beast, Boží duha (God’s Rainbow), Poslední cyklista (Last of the Cyclists), Landgericht and the famous film co-produced by the USA and Canada – Hitler: The Rise of Evil.

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• Liberec - po stopách Liebiegů (CZ, EN, DE, PL) [Liberec-brozura Architektura-A6-OK.pdf | 4.47 MB | application/pdf]

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