Ledce u Židlochovic

Laatz is a redirect to this article. For the Bohemian alchemist see Johann von Laatz .

Ledce
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Jihomoravský kraj
District :	Brno-venkov
Area :	364 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 3 '  N , 16 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '6 "  N , 16 ° 33' 24"  E
Height:	200  m nm
Residents :	218 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	664 62
License plate :	B.
traffic
Street:	Rajhrad - Pohořelice
Next international airport :	Brno-Turany Airport
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Jiří Vondráček (as of 2009)
Address:	Ledce 1 664 62 Ledce
Municipality number:	583278
Website :	www.ledceobec.cz

Ledce ( German Laatz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 17 kilometers south of the city center of Brno ( Brno ) and belongs to the Okres Brno-venkov ( Brno-Land district ).

geography

Ledce is located on a terrace over the right bank of the river Šatava in the Thaya-Schwarza valley . The R 52 / E 461 expressway passes to the west of the village, and exit 17 is also located there.

Neighboring towns are Na Podhrázkém and Sobotovice ( Sobotowitz ) in the north, Rajhrad ( United Raigern ) and Holasice ( Holasitz ) in the northeast, Vojkovice ( Woikowitz ) to the east, Židlochovice ( United Seelowitz ) and Hrušovany u Brna ( Rohrbach ) to the southeast, Úlehla and Smolín ( Mohleis ) in the south, Medlov ( Mödlau ) in the southwest, Němčičky ( Klein Niemtschitz ) and Pravlov ( Prahlitz ) in the west and Bratčice in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds in the municipality can be dated back to the time of the bell beaker culture . The first written record from 1351 shows Vladiken Jindřich von Ledec as the owner of the Ledecz village . This family can be traced on Ledecz until 1420 , the last of which was Petr Vzteklec von Ledec. After the Hussite Wars , the Vladiken von Vranovice acquired the village around 1459 . The owners of the fortress changed in quick succession and a manor was built in Ledce at the beginning of the 16th century. Around 1590 the place became part of the Seelowitz rule.

During the Thirty Years' War the village was sacked and burned down by Swedish troops under Lennart Torstensson in 1645 , after which the place was completely deserted. After the war the place was repopulated. The “ui” dialect (Bavarian-Austrian) with its special Bavarian passwords , which was spoken until the fateful year 1945, indicates that the new settlers came from Austria and southern Germany. The pronunciation of the place in Lötsch also changed . During the 4th Austrian Turkish War , the place was ravaged by Turkish troops. In 1680, 28 residents died of the plague . A few years later a mill was built in the village.

From 1710 the place was called Lautsch or Lacz . The parish registers of the place were led since 1712th In 1727 the place consisted of 16 chalets, half of which were deserted, and a tavern that was also unmanaged. The place name Laatz has been in use since 1750 . In 1840 Laatz had 140 inhabitants, all of whom belonged to the German ethnic group. The village remained until the mid-19th century the rule Židlochovice ( Seelowitz servants).

After the abolition of patrimonial rule in 1848, Laatz / Ledec formed from 1850 a district of the market town Mödlau in the district authority Auspitz and the judicial district Židlochovice ( Seelowitz ). Around 1890 the manorial Meierhof is closed. In the following period there was an influx of Czechs. In 1872 Laatz became independent. In 1888 Archduke Friedrich von Österreich-Teschen had his own village school built in Laatz on the condition that the school remained German. Before that, the children of the village went to Mödlau and Sobotowitz . Until 1918, lessons were exclusively in German, from 1918 only in Czech. The inhabitants of Laatz lived from agriculture and grew fruit and vegetables in addition to various types of grain.

After the First World War and the peace treaty of Saint Germain in 1919, the place, 91% of which belonged to the German language group in 1910, became part of the new Czechoslovak Republic . During the interwar period , high unemployment among the German population, measures such as the land reform , the Language Law (1920) and the Language Ordinance (1926), but also the resettlement and replacement of civil servants by people of Czech identity, led to increased tensions within the ethnic groups. In 1923 the Czech place name was changed to Ledce . After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the place came to the German Reich and belonged to the Reichsgau Niederdonau until 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War (May 8, 1945), the territories transferred to Germany in the Munich Agreement (1939), including Laatz, were reassigned to Czechoslovakia based on the Treaty of Saint-Germain (1919) . After the withdrawal of the Red Army, the place was occupied by militant Czechs. All German local residents fled before the onset of post-war excesses or were crossing the border into Austria sold . According to Beneš Decree 108 of October 25, 1945, the property of the German residents was confiscated and placed under state administration. The Czech Republic made no compensation for the confiscated assets.

Between 1948 and 1960 the municipality belonged to the Okres Židlochovice. After its abolition, Ledce was added to the Okres Brno-venkov .

Coat of arms and seal

The oldest known seal of the place comes from the year 1714. It shows in the inscription "SIGILLVMxDESxDORFxLACZ" a vine knife, a plow knife and a grape next to each other.

Population development

census	Total population	Ethnicity of the inhabitants
year		German	Czechs	Other
1880	182	133	49	0
1890	212	66	146	0
1900	252	143	109	0
1910	298	273	25th	0
1921	305	30th	275	0
1930	272	12	260	0

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Ledce. The Na Podhrázkém settlement belongs to Ledce.

Literature and Sources

• Gustav Gregor: The local community Laatz
• Bruno Kaukal: The coats of arms and seals of the South Moravian communities. Knee, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-927498-19-X , pp. 118f.
• Walfried Blaschka, Gerald Frodl: The district of Nikolsburg from A to Z. South Moravian Landscape Council, Geislingen / Steige 2006.

Attractions

• Chapel of the Helpful Mother Mary

Web links

• Cultural database of displaced persons

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
2. ^ Leopold Kleindienst: The forms of settlement, rural building and material culture in South Moravia , 1989, p. 9
3. ^ Felix Ermacora : The unreached peace: St. Germain and the consequences; 1919–1989 , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna, Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-85002-279-X
4. ↑ Elizabeth Wiskemann : Czechs and Germans ; London, 1938; P. 152
5. ^ Wolfgang Brügel: Czechs and Germans 1918–1938 , Munich 1967
6. ↑ Cornelia Znoy: The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans to Austria 1945/46, diploma thesis to obtain the master’s degree in philosophy, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vienna, 1995
7. ↑ Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae, Volume X, p. 200.
8. ↑ Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960, sv.9. 1984