Prace
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Brno-venkov | ||||
| Area : | 470 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 8 ' N , 16 ° 46' E | ||||
| Height: | 245 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 960 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 664 58 | ||||
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| Street: | Brno - Slavkov u Brna | ||||
| Railway connection: | Brno - Blažovice | ||||
| Next international airport : | Brno-Tuřany | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
| administration | |||||
| Mayor : | Josef Brzobohatý (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Ponětovská 129 664 58 Prace u Brna |
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| Municipality number: | 583685 | ||||
| Website : | www.praceubrna.cz | ||||
Prace (German Pratzen ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located 12 kilometers southeast of the city center of Brno and belongs to the Okres Brno-venkov . In 1805 the battle of Austerlitz took place in the corridors of the community .
geography
Prace is located between the Drahaner Bergland and the Steinitz Forest in the foothills of the Thaya-Schwarza valley basin . The village is located on the northern slope of the Pracký Kopec ( Pratzeberg ) in the basin of the Pratecký potok ( Pratzebach ), a tributary to the Zlatý potok ( Goldbach ). To the north runs the railway line from Brno to Blažovice , where there is a train stop in Ponětovice .
Neighboring towns are Jiříkovice in the north, Blažovice in the north-east, Křenovice and Zbýšov in the east, Hostěrádky-Rešov in the south-east, Újezd u Brna in the south, Sokolnice in the south-west, Kobylnice in the west and Ponětovice in the north-west.
history
Archaeological finds prove a settlement of the communal corridors since the Stone Age. The present village was probably laid out in the 11th or 12th century. The first documentary mention took place in 1362, when the chapter of St. Peter and Paul in Brno bought part of Pracz . From 1386 all twelve chalets in the village were owned by the Brno Chapter.
The 25-house prace was destroyed during the Thirty Years War. After only one house was left of the village after the end of the war, resettlement began in 1653. When the Tartars invaded Prace in 1663, it was so devastated that only the church and a house remained.
On December 2, 1805, Prace was in the center of the battlefield of the Battle of the Three Emperors . When the fighting ended, the place was ruined and littered with the bodies of soldiers. Of the once 50 houses, three still stood. During the German War in 1866 the military again occupied the place, this time the Prussians.
On June 9, 1938, an airplane crashed south of the village, killing both inmates. On January 30, 1951, there was a serious accident in Prace. Boys found two anti-personnel mines , one of which exploded. Seven of the young men died.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Prace.
Attractions
- Burial mound of peace ( mohyla míru ) on the Pracký Kopec ( Pratzeberg ).
- Three Emperor Monument on the old vineyards ( Staré vinohrady ) on the road to Blažovice, at the place where the French and Russian guards cavalry met during the battle of Austerlitz
- Church of the Exaltation of the Cross
- Memorial stone for the victims of the mine explosion in 1951, erected in 2001
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk on the village square, created in 1885
- Memorial stone for the victims of the 1938 plane crash, south of the village on the way to the cemetery
- Monument of Reconciliation ( Památník smíření ), erected in 2005 on the battlefield of 1805. The monument, made of three stone slabs facing each other, is intended to symbolize the tolerance between the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches.
