Diváky
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Břeclav | ||||
| Area : | 849 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 59 ' N , 16 ° 47' E | ||||
| Height: | 233 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 519 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 691 71 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Velké Němčice - Velké Hostěrádky | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Libor Veverka (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Diváky 110 691 71 Diváky |
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| Municipality number: | 584401 | ||||
| Website : | www.divaky.cz | ||||
Diváky (German Diwak ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located six kilometers west of Klobouky u Brna and belongs to the Okres Břeclav .
geography
Diváky is located in the hills of Boleradická vrchovina, a western branch of the Steinitz Forest in the valley of the Divácký creek. To the north rises the Lichy (331 m), in the northeast of the Nad Rasoviskem (315 m), southeast of the Nedánov (368 m), in the south of the Přední kout (410 m), southwest of the Zadní kout and Holý vrch (401 m) as well in the west of the Žerotínský vrch (381 m) and Svatojanský vrch ( St. Johannisberg , 361 m).
Neighboring towns are Šitbořice and Borkovany in the north, Martinice in the northeast, Klobouky u Brna and Divácký Mlýn in the east, Augustinov, Morkůvky and Boleradice in the southeast, Horní Bojanovice and Kurdějov in the south, Starovice in the southwest, Nikolčice in the west and Nový Dvůr in the north-west.
history
The first written mention of Diwaci was in 1210 in the founding deed of the Premonstratensian monastery Obrowitz ( Zábrdovice ) as a gift from Lev von Klobouks. However, this document turned out to be a later forgery from the 13th century, so that the oldest written evidence of the village was Pope Gregory IX's certificate of ownership . of September 24, 1237 applies. The Herburgen Monastery in Brno later acquired the goods. Between 1578 and 1581 the property of the Herburgen monastery was transferred to the Jesuit college. A school existed from 1782. In the course of the Josephine reforms, Diváky fell to the religious fund, from which Karoline von Liechtenstein bought it. She bequeathed the Diváky and Boleradice estates to her illegitimate son, Karl Ludwig von Fribert. The next owners were the barons of Levetzow .
After the abolition of patrimonial Diváky / Diwak formed from 1850 a community in the district administration Auspitz . In 1937 a distillery was established . After the district town of Auspitz was added to the German Reich in 1938 as a result of the Munich Agreement , Diváky was then assigned to the political district of Brno-Land and the judicial district of Klobouky until 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the Okres Hustopeče was restored. After its abolition in 1960, Diváky belongs to the Okres Břeclav . There are vineyards in the vicinity of the village.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the Diváky community.
Attractions
- Diváky Castle, the four-wing building surrounded by a park, was built as a monastery at the end of the 17th century. During the Second World War it served as a field hospital. After the expropriation of the Barons von Levetzow, an asylum for young Jews was set up in the castle in 1945 and then a training center for tractor drivers. From 1953 the castle served as an agricultural vocational school for blacksmiths and wagons and then between 1975 and 1998 as a secondary technical college for electrical engineering. The castle has been privately owned since 2006.
- Church of the Assumption, it has been documented since 1287
- Museum of the Brothers Vilém and Alois Mrštík
- Vilém Mrštík's grave
- Roviny nature reserve, south of the village on Přední kout
- Castle from the Hallstatt period and protected oak on Zadní kout