Description: DATE OF ** ORIGINAL ** INSERT PHOTO / COVER / PRINT: 1931CITY / TOWN-STATE: DETAILS: Františkovy Lázne (['fra?c??kov? 'la?z??] (listen); German: Franzensbad) is a spa town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,200 inhabitants. Together with neighbouring Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázne, it is part of the West Bohemian Spa Triangle. The town centre is well preserved and since 1992 has been protected as an urban monument reservation. In 2021, the town became part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Great Spa Towns of Europe" because of its natural springs and its architectural testimony to the popularity of spa towns across Europe in the 18th through 20th centuries.[2][3] Administrative parts[edit] Villages of Aleje-Zátiší, Dlouhé Mosty, Dolní Lomany, Horní Lomany, Krapice, Slatina and Žírovice are administrative parts of Františkovy Lázne. Geography[edit] Františkovy Lázne is located about 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Cheb, in the historical Egerland region. It is situated in the westernmost part of the Cheb Basin. The Slatinný Stream, a tributary of the Ohre, flows through the municipal territory. The area is rich on fish ponds. The largest of them is Amerika. Its western part with an island is protected as a nature reserve and is an important nesting place and migration stop of water birds. The eastern part of the pond is used for recreation.[4] History[edit] The salutary effects of the surrounding springs were known from the late 14th century on. The physician Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) mentioned the mineral water available to Cheb citizens. The sources from which, according to ancient law, water was drafted and brought to the city, were first used locally for salutary purposes. Later, the water was also shipped in earthenware bottles and in 1700, it reportedly sold more water than all other spas in the Empire combined. About 1705, an inn was erected at the site of a mineral spring later known as Franzensquelle. On 27 April 1793, the town was officially founded under the name Kaiser Franzensdorf, after Emperor Francis II, and later renamed Franzensbad. The spa was founded by Eger-based doctor Bernhard Adler (1753–1810).[5] He promoted the expansion of spa facilities and the accommodation for those seeking healing and promoted the transformation of the swampy moorland with paths and footbridges to well-known sources. The town was laid out around 24 springs in an orthogonal plan.[6] When in 1791 Adler had a pavilion and a water basin erected at the Franzensquelle, he sparked the Egerer Weibersturm ("Women's storm of Eger") by numerous women who earned their livelihood in the scooping, transport and sale of the water in Eger. Feeling their water-bearing rights threatened, they demolished his premises.[7] The town council of Cheb intervened and made the extension of Franzensbad as a health resort possible.[8] The result was an extensive recreation area, with easy access from the town of Cheb. In 1852, the spa became an independent municipality.[5] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous guests in the early days; his visits of Franzensbad were extensively reported in the book written by Johannes Urzidil Goethe in Böhmen (1932). Another notable visitors were Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss Jr., Božena Nemcová, Archduke Charles I of Austria, and Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria, who promoted Františkovy Lázne to a town in 1865.[5] During the 19th century, patients included numerous aristocrats, especially Russian nobles, and at the same time widely known doctors bolstered the reputation of Franzensbad as a therapeutic resort. Franzensbad offered one of the first peat pulp baths in Europe, popular especially with female guests.[6] A public spa house was built in 1827. The writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach portrayed her stay in her early work Aus Franzensbad in 1858. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the spa was visited by up to 20,000 patients and almost 80,000 spa tourists.[5] Until 1918, the town was part of the Bohemian crown land of the Austria-Hungary. After World War I, the town's reputation began to fade. Then part of the new state of Czechoslovakia, the spa lost much of its patronage and was hit hard by the Great Depression of 1929. After World War II, the German-speaking population was expelled under the Beneš decrees. The spa, officially renamed Františkovy Lázne in Czech, was nationalized under the rule of the Communist Party. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, a stock company was established to revive the status of Františkovy Lázne as a venue for international guests.[5] ARTIST: REAL PHOTOS OF THE RESORT THEME: EXTRA INFO (TEXT & IMAGE): BLACK AND WHITE INSERT PHOTOGRAPHY CAN EVOKE MANY MOODS / EMOTIONS.... WHEN FRAMED FOR DECOR USE. THESE INSERT PHOTO'S COME FROM VINTAGE PERIODICALS AND MOST OFTEN ARE THE *ONLY* GIVEN SOURCE OF THAT PHOTO. HAVING NEVER BEEN AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN OTHER FORMATS THESE INSERT PHOTO'S ARE UNIQUE IN THIS FORM. THEY MAT AND FRAME UP WONDERFULLY WELL FOR THE WALL DECOR OF ANY HOME OR OFFICE. BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY HAS THAT DISTINCTIVE TOUCH OF ROMANTICISM AND NOSTALGIA THAT, THEREFORE, MAKES THEM BASICALLY TIMELESS IN STYLE. CONDITION: CLEAN, PERFECT FOR FRAMING AND DISPLAYING. ADVERT SIZE: SEE PHOTO - DIMENSIONS AT SIDES ARE SHOWN IN INCHES DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: A GREAT VINTAGE ORIGINAL B/W INSERT PHOTO. 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