Jeseník is a spa town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. Until 1947 it was called Frývaldov, and its German name is Freiwaldau. It has about 10,000 inhabitants and stands in a hilly landscape on the Bělá River. The town was founded in the 13th century, and its early development was connected with iron ore mining and processing. Jeseník is best known for the Priessnitz Medical Spa, which Vincenz Priessnitz founded there in 1822 as the first hydrotherapy institute in the world. In the geography atlas the town is placed with the cities of Eastern Europe, under Czechia, as a small spa and mining town whose reputation rests on a single pioneering medical institution.
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It has about 10,000 inhabitants.
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is a spa town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic
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is a spa town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic
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is a spa town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic
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