Kralice nad Oslavou

Kralice nad Oslavou
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Kraj Vysočina
District :	Třebíč
Area :	1348 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 12 ' N , 16 ° 12' E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '57 " N , 16 ° 12' 6" E
Height:	370 m nm
Residents :	1,013 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	675 73
License plate :	J
traffic
Street:	Brno - Třebíč
Railway connection:	Střelice – Okříšky
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	2
administration
Mayor :	Emil Dračka (as of 2020)
Address:	Jinošovská 78 ; 675 73 Kralice nad Oslavou
Municipality number:	590941
Website :	www.kralicenosl.cz

Church of St. Martin

Festivities Kralice

The print of the Kralitz Bible (picture from 1914 from the Slav Epic by Alfons Mucha )

Kralice nad Oslavou , until 1960 Kralice (German Kralitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 29 kilometers west of the city center of Brno and belongs to the Okres Třebíč . Kralice was an important center of the Moravian Brethren movement until the middle of the 17th century, this is where the Kralice Bible was written .

geography

Kralice is located in the Jaispitzer hill country ( Jevišovická pahorkatina ) on a plateau between the valleys of the Oslava and Chvojnice . The Jinošovský potok flows through the place. In Kralice, the state road I / 23 between Brno and Třebíč crosses with the II / 392 between Velké Meziříčí and Mohelno . The railway line Střelice – Okříšky runs south .

Neighboring towns are Otradice and Jinošov in the north, Hluboké and Horní Lhotice in the northeast, Lesní Jakubov and Rapotice in the east, Sudice in the southeast, Březník in the south, Sedlec and Velkopolský Dvůr in the southwest, Zňátky and Náměšť nad Jedovou in the north- west as well as .

history

Kralice was first mentioned in a document in 1310. However, the place is much older. The oldest of the part of the church, a semicircular apse was built around 1100. It is believed that the first - wooden - fortress was built around 1200 and was replaced by a stone structure at the beginning of the 14th century. This was the seat of the Vladiken family of the Kralický von Kralice. The knight Heinrich von Kralitz, who had served at the court of Maria of Castile in the Netherlands , had the fortress redesigned into a Renaissance palace in 1542. The Kralice parish became Hussite around 1550. In 1572 Heinrich von Kralitz sold the Kralitz Fortress to John the Elder from Zierotin on Náměšť nad Oslavou and withdrew to the Dalešice Castle . Johann von Zierotin, who was a supporter of the Moravian Brethren Movement , made the festival available to the brothers as a hiding place for the brothers' printing house founded in 1562 by Bishop Jan Blahoslav . In 1578 the Moravian Brothers' secret printing works were moved from Ivančice to Kralice. Between 1579 and 1594 the Kralitz Bible was published in 6 parts. A Brethren School was opened in the fortress in 1580.

In 1616 the school was closed. From February to October 1622 Johann Amos Comenius was a guest of the community. In the same year, Charles the Elder from Žerotín moved the printing works to Náměšť nad Oslavou, from where it was brought to Lissa in 1629 . In 1626 Comenius visited Kralice again. The Moravian Brothers' library in Kralice was relocated to Wroclaw on October 9, 1628 . During the Thirty Years' War, the parish of Kralice became extinct around 1630, and the village was then incorporated into Mohelno . In June 1643 the Swedes destroyed the fortress. In the course of time the village was also known as Krelitz , Grelitz , Grelis or Gralitz . In 1785 Kralitz was assigned to the Jeneschau parish .

In 1837 the village of Kralitz or Kralice in the Znojmo district on the road leading from Rossitz to Namiescht consisted of 55 houses in which 450 people lived. There was a daughter church of St. Martin, a school, a manorial farm and an inn. To Kralitz konskribiert were the Grange large field that hunter's house in stately Tiergarten and two mills - the one at the Oslawa ( Kralický mlýn ), the other at the Chwonica ( Spálený mlýn ). Limestone was quarried in the area. The parish was Jeneschau. Until 1848 the place belonged to the Fideikommissgrafschaft Namiescht.

After the abolition of patrimonial formed kraliçe / Kralitz 1849 with the districts Lhotice and Jakubov a municipality in the judicial district Namiest . From 1869 Králice belonged to the Trebitsch district. At that time the village had 616 inhabitants and consisted of 59 houses. Lhotice and Jakubov broke up in 1879 and formed the Lhotice municipality. In 1885 the place received a railway connection. In 1900 there were 779 people living in Kralice ; In 1910 there were 754. In 1909 the foundation stone was laid for the monument to the Kralitz Bible, which was attended by 3,000 people. The monument was completed in 1936; a museum opened in the same year, which in 1955 was given to the Moravian Museum in Brno. In the 1921 census, 708 people lived in the community's 86 houses, including 704 Czechs and three Germans. In 1930 Kralice consisted of 144 houses and had 844 inhabitants. Between 1939 and 1945 Kralice / Kralitz belonged to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In 1948 the municipality was assigned to the Okres Velká Bíteš. In 1950 Kralice had 805 inhabitants. In the course of the territorial reform and the repeal of the Okres Velká Bíteš, the municipality was reassigned to the Okres Třebíč on July 1, 1960 . At the same time Lhotice was incorporated and the place names were changed to Kralice nad Oslavou and Horní Lhotice . In 1961 Kralice was included in the list of national cultural monuments . In 2000 the place received a coat of arms and a banner. In the 2001 census, 865 people lived in the 314 houses of the municipality, 757 of them in Kralice nad Oslavou (274 houses) and 108 in Horní Lhotice (40 houses).

Community structure

The municipality Kralice nad Oslavou consists of the districts Kralice nad Oslavou ( Kralitz ) and Horní Lhotice ( Lhotitz ), which also form cadastral districts. Kralice nad Oslavou also includes the single layers Kralický Mlýn, Olšinský Mlýn, Spálený Mlýn and Velkopolský Dvůr ( Großfelder Hof ).

Attractions

Ruins of the Kralice Fortress. The complex, which was built in the first half of the 14th century, was converted into a Renaissance palace in 1542 and destroyed in the Thirty Years' War.
St. Martin Church. The pre-Romanesque building was built at the end of the 11th century and has been documented in writing since 1345. It was the burial place of the von Kralitz family.
Kralitz Bible Memorial and Brothers Printing Works. The museum was built between 1967 and 1969 according to plans by the architect Bohuslav Fuchs.
Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Horní Lhotice, built in 1723 and remodeled in 1934.
Monument to the book. The memorial dedicated to translators and printers of the Kralitz Bible was built between 1909 and 1936. The long time to completion was due to financial problems.
Remains of the fortresses Horní hrádek and Dolní hrádek above the Chvojnice valley near Horní Lhotice.