Mimoà  () is a town in ÃÂeská LÃÂpa District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,400 inhabitants.
Mimoà  consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):
The name is derived from the personal name Mimon, meaning "Mimon's". The German name Niemes was created by taking over the Czech name and gradually distorting it (through the forms Nimon, Niman, Nimans, Niemans).
Mimoà  is located about east of ÃÂeská LÃÂpa and southwest of Liberec. It lies in the Ralsko Uplands. The highest point is below Ralsko Mountain at above sea level. The town is situated at the confluence of the PlouÃÂnice River and the stream Panenský potok. There is a system of four breeding fishponds in the municipal territory, Mimoà  Ponds, fed by the PlouÃÂnice.
The oldest archaeological finds from the area around Mimoà  are from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The first Slavic settlements appeared in the 5th century, later German colonists came.
The first written mention of Mimoà  is from 1352, when it was a parish village. Mimoà  was then mentioned in 1371 as a customs post on an old trading route from Zittau to Prague. At the time, the village was under the control of the Lords of Wartenberg.
The economic development of Mimoà  was affected by the Hussite Wars. In 1500, Mimoà  was acquired by the Bieberstein family. In 1505, Mimoà  was first referred to as a town. The Biebersteins had built here a manor house in 1570. During the Thirty Years' War, Mimoà  was damaged by fire. In 1651, Mimoà  was bought by the Putz of Adlersthurm family. During their rule, the town prospered. The family had most of the important buildings built: the church, the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, the town hall, a hospital, a brewery, and had the manor house rebuilt into a castle.
In 1718, the town was inherited by the Hartig family, who owned it until 1945. In 1806, the town was almost completely destroyed by a fire. In 1836, a textile factory was established by master cloth maker Anton Schicketanz (1803âÂÂ1866).
After the Revolutionary events in 1848, Mimoà  became part of the judicial district of Niemes for the Habsburg Crownland of Bohemia (and later for Austria-Hungary). This district included 26 small villages in a large wooded area east of Mimoà  such as Kuà ÂÃÂvody, HvÃÂzdov, HradÃÂany, Vranov, Svéboà Âice, ÃÂerná Novina, StrÃ¡à ¾ov, StrÃ¡à ¾ pod Ralskem and Olà ¡ina.
In 1883, the first railway station of the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways was completed in Mimoà Â. At the end of the 19th century, Mimoà  had a furniture factory, cloth and cotton weaving companies, a tannery and a beer brewery. Agriculture and forestry was also practiced.
After World War I and the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, Mimoà  became part of newly created Czechoslovakia in late October 1918. German citizens in Mimoà  protested until Czech soldiers entered the town to keep order. In 1930 the population was of Mimoà  was over 6,000 of which over 5,000 people were German-speaking.
With the rise of Nazism in Germany, so did German Nationalism through much of German-Bohemia. After the Munich Agreement in 1938, Mimoà  was annexed by Nazi Germany and was administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. Some citizens of Mimoà  became part of the paramilitary group Sudetendeutsches Freikorps who officially welcomed German Wehrmacht troops into the town on 10 October 1938. During the World War II, there was a military training camp of the Hitler Youth in Mimoà Â.
From 6 to 11 May 1945, during the Prague Offensive, Czechoslovakia was liberated by the Soviet Red Army and Czech freedom fighters. The Red Army bombed Mimoà  by air and arrived in Mimoà  on 10 May 1945. After World War II, most of the German population of Mimoà  was expelled and the town was re-populated by Czechs.
During the Cold War Era, Mimoà  became a manufacturing hub for furniture, textiles as well as a Machine Tractor Station (state enterprise for maintaining agricultural machinery).
In 2010, Mimoà  was hit by a severe flood. Afterwards, the town made extensive repairs to its infrastructure.
Mimoà  is located on the LiberecâÂÂÃÂstànad Labem railway.
A church existed here already in the 12th century. The parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul was built on the site of the old church in the baroque style in 1661âÂÂ1663. The tower was built in 1674 and the rectory in 1678.
The town centre is formed by the 1. máje Square. A column with statue of the Virgin Mary was set up on the town square in 1677.
The castle in Mimoà  was used by the Czechoslovak army and fell into disrepair. By the 1980s, the castle was in ruins and was demolished in 1985. The only reminder of the castle still in existence is the Mimoà  Castle Park and the castle pond.
Mimoà  is twinned with: