Borkovany
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Břeclav | ||||
| Area : | 1394 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 2 ' N , 16 ° 49' E | ||||
| Height: | 268 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 840 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 691 75 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Brno - Klobouky u Brna | ||||
| Next international airport : | Brno-Tuřany | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Radek Valenta (as of: 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Borkovany 279 691 75 Borkovany |
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| Municipality number: | 584339 | ||||
| Website : | www.borkovany.cz | ||||
Borkovany (German Borkowan ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located five kilometers northwest of Klobouky u Brna and belongs to the Okres Břeclav . The village is known for the production of artistic Easter eggs ( Borkovanské kraslice ).
geography
Borkovany is located in the western foothills of the Ždánický les . The village extends into the basin of the Borkovanský brook . To the north rise the Vinohrady (339 m), in the northeast the Veselá hora (340 m), southeast the Časkovec (319 m), in the southwest the Nové hory and west the Strážky (290 m). To the northeast is the Borkovanský rybník reservoir. The village is surrounded by vineyards.
Neighboring towns are Šinkovický Dvůr and Otnice in the north, Bošovice in the northeast, Časkovec and Velké Hostěrádky in the east, Kašnice and Klobouky u Brna in the southeast, Martinice and Diváky in the south, Šitbořice in the southwest and Těšany and Nesvačilka in the northwest.
history
Archaeological finds show that the area was heavily settled in the Neolithic Age . Other finds date from the Bronze Age .
Borconani was first mentioned in a document in 1210, when Lev von Klobouk gave the village and other places to the Obrowitz (Zábrdovice) monastery near Brno , which he founded. In 1511, the Borkovany monastery pledged to Jan Petrovský von Hrochov for 50 years. Then Borkovany fell back to the monastery. Originally the village was parish after Klobouky. The first news about a pastor from Borkovany comes from 1515. The old church was in the cemetery. In 1620 the village consisted of 57 houses and 370 inhabitants. During the Thirty Years War the place became deserted. In 1656 only 22 houses were still inhabited and the number of inhabitants dropped to 140. In 1668, 29 of the 59 properties in Borkovany were still in ruins. Before 1672 the parish expired and the church was assigned as a subsidiary church to the parish Klobouky. The oldest local seal dates from 1714 and shows a bunch of grapes, a plow and a flower. In 1753 the abbot Krištof Matuška in Borkovany again set up a parish, which was under the patronage of the monastery. Since that time there has also been teaching in the rectory. Borkovany belonged to the monastic estates until the secularization of the Obrowitz monastery in 1784. These were acquired by Hofrat Dornfeld from the religious fund in 1789. The parish was assigned to the Klobouky deanery in 1787. In 1797 a school was established in house number 86 next to the church. In 1810, the Arar took the silver chalice away from the church. On September 13, 1820, the brothers Augustin and Ignatz, knights of Neuwall, bought the Klobouky estate with Borkovany. In a big fire on May 16, 1831 119 houses including the school, 69 barns and 17 wine press houses were destroyed. The school was rebuilt by the Klobouky estate. After the cholera outbreak of 1831 the cemetery was moved to the edge of the village. Another damaging fire hit eleven buildings in 1839. In 1841 a wooden windmill was built above the village.
After the abolition of patrimonial formed Borkovany / Borkowan 1850 a municipality in the district administration Auspitz . In 1854 the parsonage and parsonage burned down. Borkovany had 1133 inhabitants in 1858, 959 of whom were Catholics, 166 Protestants and eight Jews. On the evening of May 14, 1861, Borkovany was flooded together with Těšany , Moutnice and Rozářín in a six-hour downpour. On August 1, 1865, 128 buildings burned down. In 1880 there were 1214 people in the village. In 1883 the school moved into a new two-class building. In the same year the road to Martinice was abolished. The inhabitants of the village lived mostly from cattle breeding and fruit growing. A small part of the population earned their living in the Brno factories. In 1903 the population consisted of 1,089 Catholics, 192 Protestants and four Jews. In 1909 the schoolhouse was torn down and replaced by a larger new building. With 1,373 inhabitants, the municipality reached the highest population in its history in 1930. The windmill was demolished in the 1930s. In 1947, after a drought, the irrigation pond Borkovanský rybník was built. After the Okres Hustopeče was abolished, the municipality was assigned to the Okres Břeclav in 1961. In 1997 the municipality acquired the Borkovanský rybník. Since 2004 Borkovany has had a coat of arms and a banner.
The traditional costume festival is celebrated in Borkovany on the Sunday after the Assumption of Mary.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Borkovany.
Attractions
- Church of the Assumption of Mary, the single-nave building in peasant baroque style was built in 1746. In the last days of the Second World War, the church was hit by four bombs and especially the church tower was badly damaged.
- Cemetery gate with bell tower, the tower built in 1857 was the first Protestant bell tower in Moravia
- Christmas crib with now 30 life-size figures, it was created in 1998 and is constantly being expanded. It is set up in the center of the village during Advent.
- Easter egg exhibition, it was created in 2009 with the support of the ČEZ company .
- Wiesgrunty natural monument , also Visengrunty , former pastures and orchards on the western slope of the Randla, two kilometers north of the village, protected since 1982
Borkovanské kraslice
Around 130,000 artistic Easter eggs are produced in Borkovany every year. The patterns and motifs are mostly engraved on the aniline painted bowl using a scratch technique. The oldest of the engraved eggs are in the Klobouky u Brna Museum and date from around 1900. The custom spread in Borkovany after the First World War. The municipality is the only one in the Czech Republic that has an Easter egg in its coat of arms.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Jaroslav Bedřich (1927–1987), painter
- František Navrátil (* 1932), sculptor
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/obec/584339/Borkovany
- ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)