Žuráň

Monument on the Žuráň

The Žuráň is a hill with 268 meters near Podolí u Brna in the Czech Republic .

Excavations

At the foot of the hill a large burial mound was discovered in 1853 with some, originally richly furnished graves from the time of the Great Migration , which were looted soon after their construction. Between 1948 and 1950 there was a partial investigation of the grave site on the Žuráň. It was found that members of the upper class of a Germanic tribe are buried in the graves. The early historian Josef Poulík from Brno assumes that the 14 m high burial mound, built at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th centuries, is the burial place of the Lombard Duke Wacho , who died around 539 . Some other historians suspect that it was the burial place of the Herulian tribal prince Rudolf .

Battle of Austerlitz

The hill became famous on December 2, 1805, when Napoleon Bonaparte commanded his troops from here during the Battle of Austerlitz . Today part of the hill is an extraterritoriality of France . On the hill there is a monument consisting of a granite block with a relief of the course of the battle and the flags of the nations involved in the battle.

Web links

Commons : Žuráň  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Žuráň and the famous red sun . morava-napoleonska.cz. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 16 ° 44 ′ 19.7 ″  E