Blansko

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Blansko
Blansko coat of arms
Blansko (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihomoravský kraj
District : Blansko
Area : 4497 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 22 '  N , 16 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '41 "  N , 16 ° 38' 38"  E
Height: 276  m nm
Residents : 20,572 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 678 01
License plate : B.
traffic
Street: Boskovice - Kuřim
Railway connection: Brno – Česká Třebová
structure
Status: city
Districts: 12
administration
Mayor : Ivo Polák (as of 2018)
Address: náměstí Svobody 32/3
678 01 Blansko
Municipality number: 581283
Website : www.blansko.cz
Panorama of Blansko
Blansko Castle
St. Martin Church

Blansko (German Blanz ) is a town with 20,572 inhabitants (January 1, 2019) in Jihomoravský kraj ("South Moravian Region") in the Czech Republic . It is located 18 kilometers north of Brno on the Svitava .

Location and surroundings

To the north-east of the city are the Podvrší mountain with a lookout tower and the Macocha sinkhole in the Moravian Karst.

history

Blansko was first mentioned in 1131 as a castle, which stood on a slope above the Punkva and was of strategic importance in South Moravia. In 1277 a small town was built under the castle. In 1398 the Roman Catholic bishop Johannes Frost (Jan XI. Mraz) of Olomouc Blansko pledged to Niklas z Studnice (from Studnitz). In 1431 his son Janko von Studnitz was lord of the castle when the fortress was besieged, climbed and destroyed by army groups of the Taborites during the Hussite Wars . It fell into ruin and is recognizable today by the extensive remains of the wall in its former size. In the following period, a new castle was built at the end of the market square in the town of Blansko, which later became Blansko Castle under changing feudal lords of the Olomouc bishopric .

The Thirty Years War brought devastation and famine. In the years after the war, the city's residents survived a plague epidemic . Carl Josef Graf von Gellhorn sold Blansko in 1766 to Count Anton von Salm-Reifferscheidt , who already owned Raitz and Jedownitz . 1784 came the lordships of Blansko, Raitz, Jedownitz and other property to the Count Karl Josef Salm-Reifferscheidt (1750-1838), who in 1790 for himself and his male line from his first marriage with Pauline († 1791, daughter of Prince Karl Josef Anton von Auersperg) and his second marriage to Marie Antonie (* 1768, daughter of Prince Wenzel as a couple) was elevated to the rank of imperial prince under the law of the firstborn . Hugo Franz zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz (1776–1836) , his son from his first marriage, received all goods and fiefs in South Moravia, including Blanz (Blansko), on September 8, 1811.

Blansko Castle became a cultural center in South Moravia thanks to the Salm-Reifferscheid princes. Numerous artists and scientists were guests, including Ferdinand von Saar and Josef Dobrovský . The Salm princes promoted the industrial development of iron production in Blansko. Today the sources of income are in the chemical industry, construction industry and tourism through the development of the Moravian Karst project .

After the end of the First World War and the subsequent establishment of Czechoslovakia , a land reform led to a partial expropriation of the large estates in and around the city of Blansko in favor of the Czechoslovak state.

During the Second World War , Blansko belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . After the end of this war, the German-speaking residents of the city and the surrounding area were expropriated, taken to assembly camps and driven to the Austrian border on the Brno death march . Blansko has been part of the Czech Republic since 1993 .

City structure

The town of Blansko consists of the districts Blansko ( Blanz ), Češkovice ( Czoskawitz ), Dolní Lhota ( Lower Lhotta ), Horní Lhota ( Upper Lhota ), Hořice ( Horschitz ), Klepačov ( Klepatschow ), Lažánky ( Laschanek ), Obůrka ( Colony of Tiechanek ), Obůrka ), Olešná ( Oleschna ), Skalní mlýn ( rock mill ), Těchov ( Tiechow ) and Žižlavice ( Zizlawitz ) Basic settlement units are Blansko-jih, Blansko-střed, Češkovice, Dolní Lhota, Hluchov, Horní Lhota, Obřice, Kležpaán, Olešná, Palava-jih, Palava-sever, Písečná, Pod hřbitovem, Pražská, Průmyslový obvod, Punkevní údolí, Skalní mlýn, Sloupečník, Staré Blansko, Starohraběcí Huť, Těchov, U kamennéižovice. The Arnoštov settlement also belongs to Blansko.

The municipality is divided into the cadastral districts of Blansko, Dolní Lhota, Horní Lhota u Blanska, Hořice u Blanska, Klepačov, Lažánky u Blanska, Olešná u Blanska and Těchov.

Twin cities

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Worked in place

literature

  • Josef Pilnáček : Dějiny města Blanska a okolních hradů , 1927
  • Vers .: Dějiny města Blanska a okolních hradů , 1827
  • Ders .: The oldest genealogy of the von Studnitz family , Vienna 1933
  • Ders .: 250 let blanenskych zelezaren , 1948

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/581283/Blansko
  2. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
  3. ↑ The coats of arms of the Bohemian aristocracy, J. Siebmacher's large coat of arms book, Volume 30, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3 87947 030 8 page 203, coat of arms pictures , plate 89.
  4. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/casti-obce-obec/581283/Obec-Blansko
  5. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/zsj-obec/581283/Obec-Blansko
  6. ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi-obec/581283/Obec-Blansko