Lipnice nad Sázavou is a village in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants. It is where, at the Czech Crown Inn, Czech author Jaroslav Hašek wrote a substantial part of The Good Soldier Švejk before he died in 1923, as he lodged there before buying a house across the street. The inn was later purchased by the author's grandson, Richard Hašek, largely for memorial purposes, and Hašek family keeps it in the same state as it was in the times of their famous ancestor , while the house now hosts an author's memorial museum. Hašek is buried at the Lipnice Old Cemetery. Gustav Mahler's father, Bernhard Mahler, was born ...
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