Editing Liberec (section)

===17th–19th centuries===
From 1600, the town was administered by Kateřina of Redern, who obtained the right to trade in salt for the town, had a chapel added to the castle and contributed to the construction of the town hall. When the Redern family was forced to leave Reichenberg after the [[Battle of White Mountain]] (1620), it was acquired by [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]]. After his death it belonged to the Gallas and Clam Gallas families, who did not care much about the town. The prosperous local industry was interrupted by the [[Thirty Years' War]] and a great plague in 1680. The crises resulted in a series of harshly suppressed serf uprisings.<ref name=history/>

In the 18th century, Reichenberg flourished. The number of inhabitants tripled and the cloth industry was very successful. The [[Battle of Reichenberg]] between [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] occurred nearby in 1757 during the [[Seven Years' War]], but the town continued to develop. During the 19th century, the town became the centre of textile industry for all of [[Austria-Hungary]]. In 1850, it became a self-governing city.<ref name=history/>

Reichenberg became a rich industrial city without representative buildings. In the late 19th century, a spectacular collection of representative buildings was created, mostly in the neo-Renaissance style: the [[Liberec City Hall|city hall]], the [[opera house]], the North Bohemian Museum, the Old Synagogue, and others. A representative villa district and a forest with a botanical garden and a zoo were created.<ref name=history/>