Želetice u Znojma

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Želetice
Coat of arms of Želetice
Želetice u Znojma (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihomoravský kraj
District : Znojmo
Area : 606 ha
Geographic location : 48 ° 56 '  N , 16 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '11 "  N , 16 ° 10' 51"  E
Height: 224  m nm
Residents : 266 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 671 34
License plate : B.
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Street: Horní Dunajovice - Vítonice
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Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Milan Choura (as of 2017)
Address: Želetice 49
671 34 Horní Dunajovice
Municipality number: 595179
Website : www.obeczeletice.cz
St. Jacob Church

Želetice (German Selletitz ) is a municipality in South Moravia ( Czech Republic ). The place is 20 km north of the Austrian border. The place itself is laid out as a longitudinal tangle village.

geography

Neighboring villages are Horní Dunajovice ( Oberdannowitz ) in the north, Vítonice ( Wainitz ) in the south, Václavov in the east and Chlupice ( Chlupitz ) in the northeast.

history

The first written mention of Želetice was in 1351 under the name of Zeletycz . But as early as 1320 the place appears under the fiefs of the Olomouc bishopric. Due to frequent changes of rulership, there have been several spellings of the village over the years. So you wrote in 1384 Selaticz , 1751 Seeletiz , 1846 Sellatitz and finally in 1848 Selletitz .

In the 14th century there is evidence of a fortified house in the village, on the place of which a small castle was later built in 1770. In 1548, Selletitz was united with Wainitz by Heinrich von Náchod .

During the Thirty Years War , the place is sacked by the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson . After the Swedes left, only three residents lived in the village. In 1680 a brewery was built in Selletitz. From 1825 the Counts Corynski became Lords of Selletitz. In 1838 they sold the place to Carl Friedrich Kammel von Hardegger. The town experienced an economic boom when a sugar factory was opened in 1870.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary , the place came to the newly founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, like all of Moravia . The proportion of the population of Germans fell between 1910 and 1930 from 73% to 11.7%. Due to the separation from the Austrian sales markets, the sugar factory had to close in 1922. The electrification took place in 1926. After the Munich Agreement , Czechoslovakia had to cede the German-speaking peripheral areas to the German Empire. Thus, on October 1, 1938, Želetice became part of the German Reichsgau Niederdonau .

With the end of the Second World War , the community came back to Czechoslovakia on May 8, 1945. Because of the severe post-war excesses by militant Czechs, many German residents fled across the nearby border to Austria in the hope of being able to return soon. The mayor of Selletitz was killed in the district court prison in Znojmo. Between July 9 and September 18, 1946, the Potsdam decisions were enforced and the last 106 German residents were forced to move to Germany. Your property has been confiscated .

Coat of arms and seal

Until the Thirty Years War , all legal matters of Selletitz were processed and sealed by the neighboring market in Ober-Dannowitz. Then the Selletitz lordship took over the place. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the place received an image-free community temple.

Population development

Registries have been kept since 1640. All birth, marriage and death registers up to 1949 are in the Brno State Archives.

census Total population Ethnicity of the inhabitants
year German Czechs Other
1880 577 117 460 0
1890 624 207 414 3
1900 658 492 165 1
1910 768 557 192 19th
1921 640 140 474 26th
1930 572 67 502 3

Attractions

  • Branch Church of St. Jacob the Elder
  • Castle (built 1770, demolished 1862)
  • Laudon monument in the castle park

Sons and daughters of the place

Literature and Sources

  • Anton Schwetter, Siegfried Kern: The Political District of Nikolsburg in Historical, Statistical and Topographical Relationships (1884)
  • Leopold Kleindienst: The forms of settlement, rural building and material culture in South Moravia , 1989, ISBN 3-927498-09-2
  • Ilse Tielsch -Felzmann: South Moravian Legends . 1969, Munich, Heimatwerk publishing house
  • Wenzel Max (Ed.): Thayaland. Folk songs and dances from South Moravia. 2nd Edition. South Moravian Landscape Council, Geislingen / Steige 1984.
  • Felix Bornemann: Arts and Crafts in South Moravia. Maurer, Geislingen / Steige 1990, ISBN 3-927498-13-0 .
  • Emilia Hrabovec: eviction and deportation. Germans in Moravia 1945–1947 , Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Vienna (= Vienna Eastern European Studies. Series of publications by the Austrian Institute for Eastern and South Eastern Europe), 1995 and 1996
  • Alfred Schickel, Gerald Frodl: History of South Moravia. Volume 3. The history of the German South Moravians from 1945 to the present . South Moravian Landscape Council, Geislingen an der Steige 2001, ISBN 3-927498-27-0 .

Web links

Commons : Želetice u Znojma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  2. ↑ Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae, Volume XI, p. 308
  3. ^ Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate Moravia , 1836, p. 505
  4. ↑ Walfried Blaschka, Gerald Frodl: The Znaim District from A to Z , 2009
  5. ↑ Milan Churaň: Potsdam and Czechoslovakia , 2007. Published by the Working Group of Sudeten German Teachers and Educators EV ISBN 978-3-9810491-7-6
  6. ^ Alfred Schickel, Gerald Frodl: History of South Moravia. Volume 3. The history of the German South Moravians from 1945 to the present . South Moravian Landscape Council, Geislingen an der Steige 2001, ISBN 3-927498-27-0 , p. 284 (Selletitz).
  7. ↑ Bruno Kaukal: The coats of arms and seals of the South Moravian communities (1992), Selletitz p. 220
  8. ↑ Acta Publica Online search in the historical registers of the Moravian Provincial Archives Brno (cz, dt). Retrieved March 14, 2011.
  9. ^ Josef Bartoš, Jindřich Schulz, Miloš Trapl: Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960. Volume 9: Okresy Znojmo, Moravský Krumlov, Hustopeče, Mikulov. Profil, Ostrava 1984.
  10. ^ Felix Bornemann: Arts and Crafts in South Moravia (1990), Selletitz p.35