parish church The first written mention of Jablonec was in a Latin document from 1356 as
Jablonecz. According to this document, Jablonec was founded in the 14th century. In August 1469, the village was burned to the ground by troops of rebelling
Lusatians in the war between them and King
George of Poděbrady. The village was then resettled in the 1530s and 1540s by mostly German-speaking colonists. In the first half of the 17th century, Jablonec was owned by
Albrecht von Wallenstein, who sold it to the
Desfours family. In 1643, during the
Thirty Years' War, Jablonec was burned down for the second time. Glass production began to flourish in the second half of the 17th century and Jablonec began to develop rapidly. In the 18th century, the first
bijou was produced and the first exporter, J. F. Schwann, spread the villages's name throughout Europe. Jablonec was promoted to a
market town by Emperor
Francis II on 21 April 1808. However, the worldwide economic crisis resulting from the
Wall Street crash of 1929 damaged the glass and jewellery industry and the crisis of the 1930s. Changing trends and the growth of foreign competition also hurt the local industry. In October 1938, Jablonec was annexed to
Nazi Germany after the
Munich Agreement, and was administered as a part of
Reichsgau Sudetenland until 1945. ==Demographics==