Hrotovice

Hrotovice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Třebíč
Area :	2123 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 6 '  N , 16 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '24 "  N , 16 ° 3' 43"  E
Height:	417  m nm
Residents :	1,751 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	675 55
License plate :	J
traffic
Street:	Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou - Ivančice
structure
Status:	city
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Hana Škodová (as of 2013)
Address:	nám. 8. května 1 675 55 Hrotovice
Municipality number:	590673
Website :	www.hrotovice.cz

Market square in Hrotovice

Hrotovice (German Hrottowitz , older also Ruthwitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic . It is located 17 kilometers southeast of Třebíč and lies in the Okres Třebíč .

geography

Hrotovice is located on the right side of the Rouchovanka river on the Milačka brook in the southern part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands . To the north of the city there are three smaller reservoirs on the Rouchovanka, which are used for irrigation purposes. The ponds Horní Nový rybník and dolní Nový rybník south of Hrotovice are used for recreation. The Dukovany nuclear power plant is located to the southeast .

Neighboring towns are Valeč and Dalešice in the north, Kramolín in the north-east, Slavětice in the east, Nové Dvory and Rouchovany in the south-east, Boříkovský Dvůr, Přešovice and Litovany in the south, Bačice and Udeřice in the south-west, Krhov and Račice in the west, as well as Odunvec and Hubertu in the north .

To the south lies the Mstěnice desert.

history

The first written mention of the village Hrutovici took place in 1228 in a document by Ottokar I. Přemysl for the Cistercian monastery "Vallis S. Mariae" in Oslavany . The village was probably founded at this time by Dietrich Theodoricus Hrut, but there was already a settlement here before 1200. 1330 was in Hrutovice one parish and one led by Commander Rhymbot Coming of the German Order of Knights . At the beginning of the 15th century, various noble and Vladiken families took turns as owners of the place. After Ulrich von Doubravice had acquired the goods in 1420, they remained in the possession of Osovští z Doubravice until 1561 . The following landlords were the Zahrádecký von Zahrádka. A brewery has been part of the stately home since 1562. After the Battle of White Mountain , the goods of Chamberlain Frederick V , Georg Zahrádecký von Zahrádka, were confiscated and sold to Georg / Jíří Březnický von Náchod in 1626 . He was followed by Georg von Widmer and, from 1672, Andreas Roden von Hirzenau auf Hagendorf. The parish in Hrotovice had died out after the Thirty Years' War. In 1667, Hrotovice consisted of 26 houses. In 1826 Hubert Graf d'Harnoncourt bought the estate from the Roden family. A little later, Georg Simon von Sina became the owner of Hrotovice. From 1845 he housed his collection of 500 paintings in the chateau, which his heirs later moved to the Myslibořice chateau and Velehrad . In 1834 the village had 734 inhabitants.

After the abolition of patrimonial Hrotovice formed from 1850 a political municipality in the Krumlau / Krumlov district and was the seat of a judicial district. The Marquis de Castrics acquired the castle from the Barons of Sina. In 1881 Emperor Franz Joseph I raised Hrotovice to the market and granted the privilege of holding four annual markets. In 1882 the brewery entrepreneur Anton Dreher junior acquired Hrotovice with the attached goods Myslibořice, Krhov , Dalešice , Valeč and Slavětice . From then on, the castle was used for office and residential purposes. In 1900 the population had grown to 1239. In 1913 a parish was established again in Hrotovice. From 19930, Hrotovice developed into a summer resort. In 1930 Hrotovice had 1,499 inhabitants. When the Znaim and Mährisch Kromau districts were ceded to the German Empire as a result of the Munich Agreement , all Czechoslovak offices were relocated to Hrotovice and the villages remaining in Czechoslovakia were connected to the Hrotovice judicial district, which increased to 65 villages. In 1940 Hrotovice reached its highest population with 2260 people. After the city was taken by the Red Army , there was a bloodbath on the market in Hrotovice on May 8, 1945, when a Soviet pilot mistakenly bombed the victory ceremony. 114 residents and 36 Red Army soldiers died in the explosions. On January 1, 1950, the judicial district Hrotovice was dissolved and the municipality was assigned to the Okres Třebíč . Some of the inhabitants of the villages Heřmanice , Lipňany and Skryje, which were closed for the construction of the Dukovany nuclear power station , were relocated to Hrotovice in the 1970s. Later, most of the residents of Hrotovice also worked in the power plant. On July 1, 1994, Hrotovice was elevated to a town.

Local division

No districts are shown for the city of Hrotovice.

Attractions

Memorial to the victims of the Second World War

• Hrotovice Castle, built as a fortress for the Osovští z Doubravice. At the end of the 16th century, under the Zahrádecký von Zahrádka family, it was converted into a four-wing renaissance castle. In the first third of the 18th century it was redesigned in baroque style.
• Parish church of St. Laurentius, the former Romanesque building can be traced back to 1263. It got its current appearance during the renovation in 1835.
• Monument to František Bohumír Zvěřina
• Zvěřina Museum
• Memorial to the victims of the Second World War
• Mstěnice desert, three kilometers south on the Rouchovanka. The village, which was extinguished during the Hungarian-Bohemian War in 1468, with the remains of a fortress and a water mill, is an archaeological site and has been explored since 1960

sons and daughters of the town

• František Bohumír Zvěřina (1835–1908), painter
• Silvestr Prát (1895–1990), botanist

Web links

Commons : Hrotovice  - collection of pictures, 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)
2. ↑ L. Hošák, R. Šrámek, Místní jména na Moravě a ve Slezsku I, Academia, Praha 1970, II, Academia, Praha 1980th