Jirkov

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Jirkov

Total population

20,239

WeatherAvg high 56.9°F

Coordinates50.50°, 13.45°

Demographic figures from Czech Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Jirkov is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. Jirkov is located on the Bílina River on the border between the Most Basin and Ore Mountains and creates a conurbation with the city of Chomutov. The most important monuments in Jirkov include the Červený Hrádek Castle and the Church of Saint Giles.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

Ernst Fischer

Austrian literature historian, publicist and writer (1899-1972)

Baron Raimund von Stillfried

Czech photographer (1839-1911)

Matthäus Aurogallus

German hebraist and historian (ca 1490-1543)

Ruth-Maria Kubitschek

German actress (1931–2024)

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Erich Wagner

SS-Sturmbannführer and camp doctor (1912 – 1959)

M

Miroslav Žižka

Daniel Meisner

German poet and co-author of Thesaurus philopoliticus (1585–1625)

Jaroslav Hübl

Czech ice hockey player (born 1982)

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Zdenek Kiklhorn

ice hockey player (1956-)

Z

Zdeněk Beneš

historian and university teacher

Franz Josef Gerstner

Czech physicist and mathematician

E

Erich Heller

British scholar of German literature and philosophy (1911–1990)

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Nikola Hofmanova

Austrian tennis player

Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová

Czech Olympic athlete and pole vaulter

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Vladimír Kýhos

Olympic ice hockey player

Patrik Gedeon

Czech soccer player and soccer representant

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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  1101.5 mi away
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  1101.6 mi away
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  1103.5 mi away
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  1103.6 mi away
• Talinn
  1104.3 mi away
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  1104.6 mi away
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  1104.7 mi away · pop. 11,062

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Common Purslane

Portulaca oleracea

Seen 2026-09-16

Springtime Dung Beetle

Trypocopris vernalis

Seen 2026-09-15

L-album Wainscot

Mythimna l-album

Seen 2026-09-15

European White Waterlily

Nymphaea alba

Seen 2026-09-15

Cepaea

Cepaea

Seen 2026-09-13

Brown-lipped Snail

Cepaea nemoralis

Seen 2026-09-13

European Hornet

Vespa crabro

Seen 2026-09-12

House Cricket

Acheta domesticus

Seen 2026-09-12

Plums-and-Custard

Tricholomopsis rutilans

Seen 2026-09-12

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers