Lanškroun / Landskon, Czech Republic - Hotel Restaurant Burgruine -German, 1935

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• Picture / Image:  Landskon [now Lanškroun, Czech Republic - form part of German Bohemia] - Hotel Restaurant Burgruine
• Publisher:  Zeitz
• Postally used:  ytes
• Stamp:  Germany 15pf
• Postmark(s):  Heimerssheim 23 April 1935 cds
• Sent to:  Mrs Morgan, Dovehouse, Gerrards Cross, Bucks., England
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Lanškroun (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlanʃkrou̯n]; German: Landskron), also known as Lanskron, Lanscron, Landeskrone, and Kronland, is a town and municipalityin the Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. On the border between the former provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, it had a population of 10,124 (2013).

The town was founded in the 13th century as the center of the estate of Lanškroun and Lanšperk. Until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy(Austrian side after the compromise of 1867), head of the LANDSKRON IN BÖHMEN district, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia.^[1] After 1919 it became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 it was occupied by German troops as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, according to the Munich Agreement.

On May 9, 1945, the day of the end of World War II in Europe, Soviet troops entered the city. On May 17, 1945, Czech partisan units held court in Landskron, and many Germans were tortured to death^{[citation needed]}.

Until the expulsion of most of the German-speaking population from the Czechoslovakia in 1945 (see the Beneš decrees), the majority of population of the town had been German: in 1930, there were 6497 inhabitants and among these 83% were German and 17% Czech^{[citation needed]}. By now, most of the inhabitants are Czech people.