Prštice

Prštice
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Jihomoravský kraj
District :	Brno-venkov
Area :	783 ha
Geographic location :	49 ° 7 '  N , 16 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '11 "  N , 16 ° 27' 47"  E
Height:	293  m nm
Residents :	974 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	664 46
License plate :	B.
traffic
Street:	Tetčice - Silůvky
Railway connection:	Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou – Brno
Next international airport :	Brno-Turany Airport
structure
Status:	local community
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Josef Daněk (as of 2009)
Address:	Hlavní 1 664 46 Prštice u Brna
Municipality number:	583707
Website :	www.prstice.cz

Prštice (German Pürschitz , formerly Pürschütz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located seven kilometers east of Ivančice and belongs to the Okres Brno-venkov .

geography

Radostice is located on the left above the valley of the Šatava at the transition from the Bobravská vrchovina to the Thaya-Schwarza valley basin . The village is on the edge of the Bobrava Nature Park.

The Líchy (346 m) rises to the northeast, the Horka (321 m) to the south, the Horka (316 m) to the west, the Babí hora (351 m) and Bukovina (385 m) to the southwest, and the Teplý Kopec (438 m) to the northwest ). To the west of the village, the Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou – Brno railway runs through the forest, the nearest railway station is Silůvky .

Neighboring towns are Radostice in the north, Nebovidy in the northeast, Ořechovičky, Ořechov and Tikovice in the east, Syrovice and Bratčice in the southeast, Silůvky in the south, Moravské Bránice and Ivančice in the southwest, Hlína in the west and Neslovice in the northwest.

history

Archaeological finds of bone remnants and tools prove a settlement of the local corridors in the Neolithic and Bronze Age . Mammoth teeth were found when the Velký Prštický tunnel was being built.

The first written mention of Pirschicz was in 1289 in the Rudíkov document of the Cistercian monastery "Vallis Sanctae Mariae" in Oslavany . However, the village did not belong to the monastery possession but was the seat of Vladikegeschlechts Nižata who built the festivals. According to legends, a pagan fortress should have stood on the Horka. After the Nižata, various other Vladiken families took turns as owners who also owned other goods and appointed burgraves for the administration of Prštice. The fortress fell into disrepair during this period and was converted into the estate manager's residence and warehouse. The neighboring village of Modřičky has been traceable since the 14th century . It was probably northwest of Prštice at the Šatava and was in 1432 when incidence Duke Albrecht V destroyed. Its corridors later came to Prštice. Between 1535 and 1552 the Prštice estate belonged to Jiří Žabka von Limberg, who significantly increased his estates with the acquisition of the possessions of the extinct Rosa Coeli monastery . The next owners were the Černohorský von Boskowitz , the Counts von Thurn, from 1672 to 1732 the Želecký von Počenice and subsequently the Dietrichsteiner . The village was parish to the church of St. George in Tikovice. The school location was also Tikovice.

After the abolition of patrimonial Prštice formed from 1850 a municipality in the district administration Brno. In the 1860s the tunnel was built north of the village for the railway line Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou – Střelice , in which dynamite was used for the first time . The line went into operation in 1870. In the second half of the 19th century Prštice had its own village school. In 1921 the municipality was assigned to the Okres Brno-venkov. Between 1948 and 1960 Prštice belonged to the Okres Brno-okolí. After its abolition, Prštice came back to the Okres Brno-venkov. The meeting room of the municipal council in the castle was also used for Catholic services from 1995 onwards, as the cemetery chapel was unsuitable for this. From 1999 the approximately 80 Catholics collected 253,717 crowns for the construction of a new chapel, which began in 2002 after the community council had set a share of 1,168,063 crowns in the household. The community council, newly elected in 2002, stopped supporting the building of the chapel, so that work was suspended until 2005. In 2006 the new chapel was consecrated.

Community structure

No districts are shown for the municipality of Prštice.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. Johannes von Nepomuk, built in 2002 and 2005–2006 above the village to replace a small cemetery chapel. The three-year construction freeze came about after the new election of the municipal council, which did not approve any further funds for further construction. The residents and sponsors finally raised the funds for the further construction.
• Chapel of St. John
• Bell tower
• Prštice Castle, the renaissance castle was built in the 16th century instead of the festivals for the Counts of Thurn. Between 1750 and 1760, under the von Dietrichstein family , according to plans by Christian Alexander Oedtl, it was converted into a baroque summer residence with a park and a large gardening center. Next to the castle there was a farm yard with a brewery. The castle got its present form during the reconstruction after the fire of 1808. It then served until 1919 as the seat of the estate administration and residence of the lordly officials. In 1925 the castle was nationalized. In 1947 the Prštice municipality bought the property.
• Fialska pond , northwest on the Šatava
• Bobrava Nature Park, west and north of the village
• Velký Prštický and Malý Prštický railway tunnels , north of the village at the Radostice railway station in the forest. Both tunnels with a length of 85 and 322 m respectively were driven in the 1860s under the direction of chief engineers A. Köstlin and M. Pischof as the first in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to use dynamite instead of conventional gunpowder . They were designed for two-track operation, but a second track has never been laid. The tunnel portals were made of quarry stone. During repair work in the 1970s, the track was relocated to the center of the tunnel.

Personalities

• Viktor Kamil Jeřábek (1859-1946), the writer worked from 1887 to 1906 as a teacher in Prštice. His novel Počestná obec Valčice is about Prštice.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
2. ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, published by Oesterreichischer Eisenbahnbeamten-Verein, 1898

Web links

• History of the new chapel on the Ořechov parish website