Žerotice

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Žerotice
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Žerotice (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihomoravský kraj
District : Znojmo
Area : 574.4125 ha
Geographic location : 48 ° 56 '  N , 16 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '36 "  N , 16 ° 10' 7"  E
Height: 205  m nm
Residents : 357 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 671 34
License plate : B.
traffic
Street: Želetice - Tvořihráz
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Jindřich Nožka (as of 2016)
Address: Žerotice 154
671 34 Horní Dunajovice
Municipality number: 595187
Website : www.zerotice.cz
View from Kyjovice to Žerotice
Rectory and Church of St. Martin
Ruins of the Žerotice fortress

Žerotice (German Zerotitz , also Zierotitz or Scherotitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located twelve kilometers northeast of Znojmo and belongs to the Okres Znojmo .

geography

Žerotice is located on the left side of the Jevišovka river on the edge of the Thaya-Schwarza valley basin . To the north rise the Šibeniční kopec (287 m nm) and the Horní Hájek (321 m nm), to the southwest the Kamenná hora (278 m nm) and to the west the Na Brtníku (279 m nm).

Neighboring towns are Horni Dunajovice and Domčice in the north, Želetice , Chlupice , Hostěradice and Miroslav in the Northeast, Rybníčky Mlyn, Kasenec and Dolenice the east, Vítonice , Stošíkovice na Louce and Prosiměřice the southeast, Kyjovice in the south, Loucký Mlyn and Tvořihráz in the southwest, Výrovice in the west and Němčičky , Mikulovice , Koráb, Stupešice and Křepice in the north-west.

history

The oldest mention of the place took place in 1190, when the pastor of Žerotice testified to a document from the Bruck monastery . In 1237 Pope Gregory IX confirmed . Žerotice as the property of the Premonstratensian monastery Obrowitz ( Zábrdovice ). In the confirmation of ownership of the church there issued in 1253 on the occasion of the consecration of the church in Trstěnice , the Žerotic pastor Boreas also appeared as a witness. In 1259 Zickray ( Cuzkraj ) von Zerotitz is verifiable as the owner of an estate, in 1324 a descendant of the same name. In 1346 part of the estate belonged to Adam Gaiwitzer von Zerotitz. Another part owned Benedikt von Weitmühl , who in 1348 ceded this share to his wife Anna. In the same year Albert von Durchlaß's widow Hedwig left a further share to her brother Wilhelm. 1358 bought Benedict of Weitmühl the festivals Zerotitz with Freihof, two Lahnen , three farms, the forest Porady and one eighth of the church patronage for 129 Mark Adam of Zerotitz and another Freihof with Lahn, three farms, gardens, meadows, forests Okopanec and Zatočky and one eighth of the church patronage for 98 marks from Branek von Zerotitz. Before 1375 Tobias von Weitmühl inherited the greater part of the village. In 1376 Johann von Durchlaß was the owner of the Lahn in Zerotitz, which he sold to Weitmühl in 1385. In 1381 an Adam von Zerotitz was also mentioned. Johann von Weitmühl, who had inherited the estate from Tobias, took Ludwig von Bukovina and his nephew Wenzel into a community in 1406 . After Johann's death, before 1436, Sigismund von Weitmühl inherited the property. Wenzel Weitmühler von Zerotitz sold eight Lahne in Zerotitz to Johann Lechwicky von Zástřizl in 1465 ; in 1508 he assured landtäflich its half of festivals Zerotitz with a yard and the church patronage, the deserts Castle Lapikus , several, including two unnamed desert villages where Johann Weitmühler of Zerotitz which ceded possession in 1511 to Henry Lechvický of Zástřizl. This was followed by Johann Lechvický von Zástřizl, who bequeathed the estate to his children Hynek and Anna in 1530. Hynek died in 1535 and put his underage children as heirs. Then Ulrich Přepicky of Richenburg seized the inheritance, he had to cede it to Anna Lechvická von Zástřizl in 1545. In 1550 she took her husband Hanns Pozor von Niklstadt - on condition that their sons Heinrich von Wilhelm von Zazawitz were paid out with 1000 shock groschen - in community with the villages of Zerotitz, Bonitz, Rudlitz and Wewtschitz , the desert village of Hostitz, ever one Lahn in Stočikowitz and Ribnitz , the desolate farm in passage and the desert fortress Lapikus. After the death of Hanns Pozor, Friedrich Březnický von Náchod was entered in the land register as the owner of the estate in 1559. Before 1560, Hutterer settled in Zerotitz , who soon also provided the pastor; In 1613 the Hutterites were expelled from the country. The following owners were Peter Wolf von Náchod and after 1612 Georg Graf von Náchod. The latter sold the estate with the Zerotitz Castle, the parish, a Meierhof, a sheep farm and a brewery, the Freihof in Durchlaß including two inmates, the Freimühle in Selletitz and the village of Wainitz to Count Zdenek von Hoditz. In 1628 Georg Ehrenreich von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf bought the estate for 28,000 guilders. He sold it on May 24, 1630 with the castle, the Meierhof, the Schafhof, a brewery and many vineyards to Alois von Galdiran; he was followed by his son Johann Peter Jakob von Galdiran, then his mother Meta Klara, née von Strahlendorf, and then her brother Wolfgang Leopold Freiherr von Strahlendorf. After his death, the widow Anna Katharina, née von Rostroschow, sold the estate to Johann Walderode von Eckhausen for her children for 18,000 Rhenish guilders on October 13, 1638. In 1643, Swedish troops captured the castle and set it on fire. Johann Walderode sold the Zerotitz estate , which had been devastated as a result of the Thirty Years' War , to Arnold von Prailitt, whose widow Anna Kunigunde, née von Thimo, sold the estate to Kasimir von Blier. After the war, only about 50 people lived in Zerotitz. The changing owners were unable to restore the property to a profitable state. On January 20, 1677, his sons shared the inheritance, whereby the Zerotitz estate, described as ruined and onerous, went to the younger son Ferdinand Ernst. At the end of the 17th century a parish school started teaching. Ferdinand Ernst's son Max Ferdinand von Blier appointed his mother Martha, née Countess Braida, as heir on April 11, 1706 . On July 2, 1711, their siblings sold the Zerotitz estate including the village of Wainitz for 66,000 Rhenish guilders to Franz Karl Berchtold , who united it with his Selletitz estate.

In 1720, the first-wed sons Franz Adam and Adam Ignaz von Berchtold jointly inherited the paternal property. After the division of the estate on November 23, 1722, the older of the brothers, Franz Adam von Berchtold, took over the allodial rule of Selletitz with the attached estates of Zerotitz and Domschitz . He died in the same year and left the rule to his underage son Prosper. In 1725 a great fire destroyed most of the village. In 1732 the new rectory was built on the site of the fire in the previous building. Prosper von Berchtold sold the Selletitz estate with Zerotitz and Domschitz on December 31, 1755 for 150,000 Rhenish guilders to Maria Elisabeth. Countess of Waldorf . The adjoining Zerotitz estate included a large farm, 800 fields, 15 gardens, extensive meadows, two ponds and the Koráb forest with an area of ​​320. By inheritance on June 11, 1761, her son Ignaz took over the dominions Selletitz and Sadek with Roketnitz . In 1796, Count Ignaz von Waldorf placed Franz Kajetan Count von Chorinsky as his heir on the condition that the goods should go to his brother Ignaz if he joined the Order of Malta . A new schoolhouse was built opposite the church at the end of the 18th century. In 1805 and 1809 the village was sacked by French troops. The rectory built in 1732 had become so damaged that it had to be demolished in 1820. In 1826 the school house was extended, and lessons were then in two classes. In 1831 the entire rectory was rebuilt. During the nausea epidemic of 1831/32, a ninth of the population of the Selletitz lordships died. There were 140 deaths in the parish of Zerotitz alone. The old cemetery around the church was not sufficient for their burial, so a new cemetery was built east of the church. On March 27, 1832, Friedrich Graf von Chorinsky inherited the dominions Selletitz (with Zerotitz, Krepitz and Domschitz), Hostialkow and Wessely , the other dominion Brumow and the Sadek estate with Roketnitz from his father Franz Kajetan .

In 1834 the village Žerotitz or Žerotice consisted of 75 houses with 394 predominantly Moravian-speaking inhabitants. The parish belonging to the Hosterlitz deanery , the St. Martin's Church and the school were under the patronage of the rulers . There was also an old castle and a farm in the village. Žerotitz was the parish for Selletitz, Domschitz ( Domčice ), Durchlaß and Gaiwitz ; The place of office was Selletitz. Until the middle of the 19th century, Žerotitz remained subject to the allodial rule Selletitz.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed Žerotice / Zerotitz 1849 a municipality in the judicial district of Znojmo. In 1863, Viktor Graf von Chorinsky sold the Zerotitz and Selletitz estates to Friedrich Kammel von Hardegger. In 1868 the municipality became part of the Znojmo District. In 1870 a great fire broke out in Žerotice, which destroyed the chateau, 27 houses, the manorial granary and five barns. After the First World War , the multi-ethnic state Austria-Hungary disintegrated , and in 1918 the municipality of Žerotice became part of the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic . In 1927 the village was electrified. In 1929 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. Dominik Kammel von Hardegger sold the Žerotice estate to Alois Fišl in 1936. After the Munich Agreement, Žerotice remained with Czechoslovakia in 1938 and was assigned to the Okres Moravské Budějovice. Until 1945 the village was on the border with the German Empire. After the end of the Second World War, Žerotice came back to Okres Znojmo. In the course of the communist land reform in 1948, the owner of the estate, Alois Fišl, was expropriated as landowner. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Jevišovka was regulated. In 1973 a cultural center with a restaurant and dance hall, community library and rooms for the community office was opened. In 1985 the school was closed and the children were retrained to Želetice .

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Žerotice. One-layer Koráb belongs to Žerotice.

Attractions

  • Church of St. Martin with four altars and the chapel of St. Trinity and the Immaculate Conception. The church has been a parish church since the end of the 12th century. In 1706 Max Ferdinand von Blier left a mass foundation of 3,000 guilders for the chapel. In 1755 a baroque reconstruction took place, the tower and a new choir gallery were added and the nave was newly vaulted. The choir, the baptismal font and a holy water container have been preserved from the Gothic church. In the crypt there is the burial place of the Lords of Náchod on Žerotice; In the six tin coffins are the bones of Johann Georg von Náchod and Zerotitz, Adam Maximilian von Náchod and Zerotitz, his wife Eusebia von Sezimov, Eva von Předbor (wife of Bohumil Jaroslav von Náchod) and an unnamed woman († 1614) ; the sixth coffin is empty. The high altar and the side altars of St. Jakobus, Jesus, Maria and Josef were created by the Znojmo sculptor Sebastian Centner in 1775.
  • Rectory, built in 1831
  • Ruins of the fortress Žerotice, it has been documented since 1355 and was first referred to as a castle in 1508. In 1559 it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. In 1643 the Swedes set the castle on fire. The building was later redesigned in baroque style. In 1870 the castle burned down and was not rebuilt. In the 1930s, the destruction of the old walls began, which initially mainly affected the manor house. During the construction of the road to Želetice, the western part of the fortifications was destroyed in the 1960s. In 1988 two walls of the keep collapsed . The surrounding wall (up to the first floor), a Renaissance vault, supporting pillars, the torso of the collapsed tower and the moat have been preserved. In 1998 the Czech state sold the ruins, and the new owner has been planning to reconstruct the building since then.
  • Niche chapel on the village square
  • Niche chapel on the road to Tvořihráz

Web links

Commons : Žerotice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.uir.cz/obec/595187/Zerotice
  2. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ^ Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate Moravia topographically, statistically and historically described , III. Volume: Znaimer Kreis (1837), pp. 501–507