Blažovice

Blažovice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Jihomoravský kraj
District :	Brno-venkov
Area :	593 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 10 ′ N , 16 ° 47 ′ E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 41 ″ N , 16 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ E
Height:	242 m nm
Residents :	1,220 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	664 08
License plate :	B.
traffic
Street:	Tvarožná - Zbýšov
Railway connection:	Brno – Vlárský průsmyk; Brno - Bučovice
Next international airport :	Brno-Tuřany
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Vladimír Kuklínek (as of 2007)
Address:	Nádražní 242 ; 664 08 Blažovice
Municipality number:	582841
Website :	www.blazovice.eu

Blažovice (German Bläswitz , also Blasowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 13 kilometers east of the city center of Brno and belongs to the Okres Brno-venkov . The battle of Austerlitz took place in the corridors of the community in 1805 .

geography

Blažovice is located between the Drahaner Bergland and the Steinitz Forest in the foothills of the Thaya-Schwarza valley by the Romza brook. The D 1 motorway passes to the north, the next exit of which is 210 at Holubice . The Brno-Blažovice railway line and the railway lines in the direction of Vyškov and Bučovice lead to Blažovice .

Neighboring towns are Tvarožná in the north, Kruh and Holubice in the northeast, Křenovice in the southeast, Zbýšov in the south, Prace and Ponětovice in the southwest and Jiříkovice in the west.

history

Archaeological finds prove a settlement of the communal corridors since the Stone Age. The greatest discovery was on the site of the old brickworks 28 body graves from the bell beaker culture , dating from around 3000 BC. Were dated.

The first documentary mention was made in 1131 in a property register of the Diocese of Olomouc . In 1317 Katharina von Lomnitz, b. from Deblín, the Dominican monastery in Old Brno, among other villages also Velké and Malé Blažovice.

In 1725 the Blasowitzer Hof was rebuilt by the monastery of St. Anna in Brno . On this occasion, Oberin Beatrix Luxenthal had a memorial plaque made in German, which was preserved. Until the dissolution of the monastery in the course of the Josephine reforms of 1782, Blasowitz belonged to the monastery estates.

2nd December 1805 Blasowitz was the battlefield of the northeastern part Battle of Three Emperors . The village was devastated. After the fight, torn bodies of the fallen remained in the corridors and in the village. On November 22nd, 1822 Franz Graf Dietrichstein-Proskau bought the Blaziowitz estate from the state administration and added it to the allodial rule of Sokolnitz . At that time the language in Sokolnitz was "entirely Moravian", while in Bläswitz "partly Moravian, partly German" was spoken. The last landlords were Count Mitrovský. In 1934 the church was completed.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Blažovice.

Attractions

Church of the Most Holy Heart of the Lord, built in 1934 according to a design by Metoděj Zoubek
Bell tower, erected 1831–1832
Dreikaiserdenkmal on the old vineyards ( Staré vinohrady ) on the road to Prace , where the French and Russian guards cavalry met during the battle of Austerlitz
Marterl at the crossroads between Prace, Blažovice, Zbýšov and Křenovice on the old vineyards that were fought over on December 2nd, 1805
Cross on the old Welehrader Weg not far from Marterl, here are the mass graves of unknown soldiers who died in the Battle of Austerlitz
old forge, at the northern entrance to the village
Memorial plaque for Šebestián Kubínek

Sons and daughters of the church

Šebestián Kubínek (1799–1882), Catholic lay apostle, is regarded in the Czech Catholic Church as an apostle of the Good Book

Individual evidence

↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
↑ Gregor Wolny, Conrad Schenkl: The Margraviate Moravia: topographic, statistically and historically portrayed . Brno District. tape 2 . In Commission of the LW Seidel'sche Buchhandlung, Brünn 1837, p. 462 ( google.de [accessed on January 10, 2018]).

[1] Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)

[2] Gregor Wolny, Conrad Schenkl: The Margraviate Moravia: topographic, statistically and historically portrayed . Brno District. tape 2 . In Commission of the LW Seidel'sche Buchhandlung, Brünn 1837, p. 462 ( google.de [accessed on January 10, 2018]).