Did you know that …

Did you know that …

Did you know that …

• In Špindl, 2000 liters of beer are drunk every day.
• In winter, Špindl is visited by 500,000 visitors.
• In 1922 Franz Kafka began to write the novel Das Schloss.
• The actors Hugo Haas, Adina Mandlová and Vlasta Burian were accommodated here.
• Emma Destinová was accommodated in the Hotel U Tří Růží.
• Legendary Czech films were made here...
• Špindlerův Mlýn lies at an altitude of 720 m above sea level
• Špindlerův Mlýn has only 1,100 permanent residents
• The women's Alpine World Ski Championships were held five times here
• The Špindlerův Mlýn ski area is the only PREMIUM winter sports center in the Czech Republic with a 6-star quality certificate and the only one with a premium quality title.
• Špindlerův Mlýn is a four-time winner of the award "Best ski area in the Czech Republic! This award was won at the international World Ski Award (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 a 2020).
• In the stable register from 1842, Špindlerův Mlýn appears as Břetenský mlejn (later commonly called Vřetenový Mlýn), which was created through a naive translation of the German spindle mill (spindle - spindle, Mühle - mill).
• In German, the town was formerly called Spindlermühle after the Spindler family, who owned a mill in the village. The oldest surviving record by Špindlerův Mlýn dates from the beginning of the 16th century.
• The oldest surviving record of Špindlerův Mlýn dates from the beginning of the 16th century