Machnín is the 33rd of the 35 districts of the city of Liberec

Liberec

Liberec is a city in the Czech Republic. Located on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge, it is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic....

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

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History

Formerly a village, Machnín was established somewhere in the Fourteenth century by Donín's family, and was named after Burgrave

Burgrave

A burgrave is literally the count of a castle or fortified town. The English form is derived through the French from the German Burggraf and Dutch burg- or burch-graeve .* The title is originally equivalent to that of castellan or châtelain, meaning keeper of a castle and/or fortified town...

 Vilém z Dolína's wife Machna. A former name for Machnín was Machnadorf, and some sources also refer to it as Mochendorf, Machndorf or Mochendorff. The first reference to it is found in records from 1482 which mention a battle between Jan Královec and the Sorbs

Sorbs

Sorbs are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia, a region on the territory of Germany and Poland. In Germany they live in the states of Brandenburg and Saxony. They speak the Sorbian languages - closely related to Polish and Czech - officially recognized and...

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From its beginnings, the history of the village was affected by its position on the boundary between Grabštejn

Grabštejn

Grabštejn is a castle situated not far from the city of Liberec, in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, near the three-country-border area where the borders of the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland meet.-History:...

 and Frýdlant lordships, and by its proximity to the Hamrštejn

Hamrštejn

Hamrštějn is a castle ruin located close to the city of Liberec, Czech Republic....

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