Kovářská

Kovářská (German: Schmiedeberg) is a market town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

Both the Czech and German names refer to the processing of iron ore, with which the town is historically connected.

However, it was interrupted by post-White Mountain confiscations, subsequent re-Catholicization, when Protestants went to Saxony rather than renounce their faith, and then the Thirty Years' War, which hit Kovářská severely, especially in 1639–1641.

However, after the Napoleonic Wars the iron processing was maintained only with difficulty, and after several decades the operation was stopped.

The town has reoriented itself to other types of industry: production of canned fish, matches, velvet, yarn and thread.

Municipal office
Church of Saint Michael with the rectory