Hradec nad Moravicí

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Hradec nad Moravicí
Coat of arms of Hradec nad Moravicí
Hradec nad Moravicí (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Moravskoslezský kraj
District : Opava
Area : 4395 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 52 '  N , 17 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '39 "  N , 17 ° 52' 16"  E
Height: 264  m nm
Residents : 5,489 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code : 747 41 - 747 84
structure
Status: city
Districts: 8th
administration
Mayor : Karel Valušek (as of 2006)
Address: Opavská 228
74741 Hradec nad Moravicí
Municipality number: 507270
Website : www.muhradec.cz

Hradec nad Moravicí (German Grätz ) is a town in the Okres Opava in the Czech Republic. It belongs to the Moravian-Silesian region and is eight kilometers south of the district town of Opava .

geography

Hradec nad Moravicí is located in the foothills of the Lower Jeseníky Mountains on a ledge above the Mohra . Neighboring towns are Opava in the north, Hrabyně in the northeast, Velká Polom ( Groß Pohlom ) and Kyjovice ( Kiowitz ) in the east, Bílovec in the southeast, Březová ( Biesau ) in the south, Vítkov and Melč ( Meltsch ) in the southwest and Mikolajice (Niklowitz) in the west . Vikštejn Castle is also located there .

history

Hradec nad Moravicí Castle

In the area of ​​Hradec was in the 8th / 9th Century a Slavic settlement and later a fortress that monitored the way to Poland and is first documented for the year 1060. It was an administrative center of the Holaschitz tribe in the 12th century . After 1275 a castle with a tower was built on the place of the fortress. After 1280, the widow of the Bohemian King Přemysl Otakar II , Kunigunde von Halitsch, lived on it . She appointed her lover, the Witigonen Zawisch von Falkenstein , burgrave of Grätz.

From 1288 Grätz with Troppau was in the possession of Nikolaus I. Troppau , an illegitimate son of King Přemysl Otakar II, who founded the Premyslid line of the Dukes of Troppau . His son Nikolaus II resided at Grätz Castle . The castle lost its importance when the Troppau Castle was built at the beginning of the 15th century and was used as the residence of the dukes. In 1460, the Bohemian King George of Podebrady acquired part of the Duchy of Opava, with which he enfeoffed his second eldest son Viktorin in 1465 . After King George's death in 1472 he inherited this part and in 1481 granted Grätz town rights and a coat of arms as well as the privilege of holding a fair. In the 16th century, Grätz was pledged several times, including to the Barons of Czettritz von Kynsberg ( Četrys z Kinšperka ) and from 1581 to Christoph Pruskovský von Pruskov , who in 1585 acquired the rule of Grätz from Emperor Rudolf II . Under the barons of Neffzern and, from 1778, the Lichnowsky princes , Grätz Castle developed into a center of musical culture. In 1806 and 1811 Ludwig van Beethoven stayed in Grätz, in 1846 and 1848 Franz Liszt .

After a fire in 1796, the castle was converted into a castle. Further alterations followed after 1880 in the neo-Gothic style .

With the local line Troppau-Grätz in 1904 Grätz received a railway connection. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1921 it was given the official place name Hradec . As a result of the Munich Agreement , it was annexed to the German Reich in 1938 and belonged to the Troppau district until 1945 . In 1943 the communities of Branka ( Branka u Opavy ), Kailowitz ( Kajlovec ) and the settlement Podoli were incorporated into the community of Grätz. After the Second World War, Hradec came back to Czechoslovakia. The German residents were expelled . Since 1968 Hradec has had the official place name Hradec nad Moravicí .

Attractions

  • Grätz Castle
  • The parish church of St. Peter and Paul on the palace forecourt was built in 1584.
  • Way of the Cross on the Calvary

Community structure

The districts belong to Hradec nad Moravicí

  • Benkovice ( Benkowitz )
  • Bohučovice ( Bohutschowitz )
  • Domoradovice ( Damadrau )
  • Filipovice ( Philippsdorf )
  • Jakubčovice ( Jakubschowitz )
  • Kajlovec ( Kailowitz ) and
  • Žimrovice ( Zimrowitz )
  • and the settlement Podolí ( Podoly ).

sons and daughters of the town

Twin cities

literature

Web links

Commons : Hradec nad Moravicí  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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