Kelč
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Zlínský kraj | ||||
| District : | Vsetín | ||||
| Area : | 2785 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 29 ' N , 17 ° 49' E | ||||
| Height: | 307 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 2,689 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 756 43 | ||||
| License plate : | Z | ||||
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| Street: | Kunovice - Teplice nad Bečvou | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 5 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Karel David (as of 2010) | ||||
| Address: | Náměstí 5 756 43 Kelč |
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| Municipality number: | 542989 | ||||
| Website : | www.kelc.cz | ||||
Kelč (German: Keltsch , older also: Keltz ) is a town in the Zlínský kraj region ( Czech Republic ). It is located on the left side of the Juhyně on the border between Haná and Moravian Wallachia about 11 km west of Valašské Meziříčí .
history
The area was already inhabited by people in the early Stone Age. Neolithic inhabitants are believed to have been around 5,000 BC. BC have farmed in this area. Continuous settlement began around the 10th century. Coin finds suggest that the place was on an important trade route, the Amber Road , at that time . In 1938 a boy found the Kelečský poklad ( Kelečský poklad ) while harvesting potatoes on the Strážné hill . The roughly 1500 whole and half coins with a weight of 43.3 decagrams date from the period between 1002 and 1020.
The first written evidence of the location comes from the year 1131. Under Bishop Bruno von Schaumburg , the city received a completely new face. The settlement was completely rebuilt, New Keltsch created. During the wars between the Moravian margraves Jobst and Prokop in the 14th century and especially during the Hussite Wars , the area and the city were devastated.
The situation only improved again in the 16th century when the episcopal estate was merged. The town received a brewery, the first craft guilds settled down and in 1580 the settlement was freed from labor. The slow blossoming was interrupted by the Thirty Years War . Keltsch was looted and burned down several times, and the population shrank to a fifth.
After the war, the decline continued. The city lost its privileges, and in 1750 Bishop Ferdinand Julius von Troyer prohibited the use of the name city. This name was only allowed to be used again after numerous trials with the Olomouc bishops at the end of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century the place began to make pipes. The settlement of the Thonet & Kohn company remained an exception. Keltsch himself retained the image of an agricultural town.
In 1954, Kelč's town charter was revoked and in 1994 it was granted again.
City structure
Kelč consists of the districts Babice (Babitz), Kelč (Keltsch), Komárovice (Komarowitz), Lhota (Ellhotten) and Němetice (Niemetitz).
Cultural monuments
- Renaissance castle from the 1580s
- Listed city center
sons and daughters of the town
- Jaroslav Křička (1882–1969), composer
- Petr Křička (1884–1949), scholar, librarian, poet, children's author and translator
- Vojtěch Jasný (1925–2019), director and screenwriter
- Vlastimil Bubník (1931–2015), soccer player and ice hockey player and coach
