Rakvice
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Břeclav | ||||
| Area : | 2186 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 52 ' N , 16 ° 49' E | ||||
| Height: | 164 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 2,177 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 691 03 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Nové Mlýny - Podivín | ||||
| Railway connection: | Brno - Břeclav | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Radek Průdek (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Náměstí 22 691 03 Rakvice |
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| Municipality number: | 584860 | ||||
| Website : | www.rakvice.cz | ||||
Rakvice (German Rakwitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located twelve kilometers northwest of Břeclav and belongs to the Okres Břeclav .
geography
The South Moravian wine village is located on the right side of the Trkmanka at the foot of the Přítlucká hora ( Prittling ; 292 m) and its foothill Kozí hora ( Geiselberg , 212 m). The Zimarky hill (262 m) rises to the east. South of Rakvice, the Trníček brook coming from Přítluky flows towards the Trkmanka. The lines of the Brno - Břeclav railway line , the 425 highway and the D 2 / E 65 motorway run parallel to the eastern periphery . Rakvice has a train station, the nearest motorway exit is at Podivín .
Neighboring towns are Velké Pavlovice in the north, Trkmanice in the northeast, Velké Bílovice in the east, Podivín in the southeast, Lednice and Nejdek in the south, Bulhary in the southwest, Přítluky in the west and Zaječí in the northwest.
history
Archaeological finds prove an early Slavic settlement of the village. The place was first mentioned in 1248 when Ulrich III. from Carinthia left to the temple lords in Čejkovice . Four kilometers to the northeast was the village of Trutmanice, which became extinct in the 15th century. In 1446 Jan von Meziříčí sold Rakvice to Nikolaus Billung. In 1487 Kryštof Pinkůsek von Moravany became the owner of the village. Viticulture can be traced on the Geiselberg since 1491. Other owners were Wilhelm II of Pernstein , who granted the village the right of caducity , and the lords of Leipa . Rakvice had market rights before the Thirty Years War.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the place began to decline. In 1604, Stephan Bocskai's rebellious troops invaded and devastated the village. Only the walls and the tower remain of the chapel of St. Andrew. In 1618 510 people lived in Rakwitz. Hungarian troops invaded again in the Thirty Years' War. After the end of the war, large parts of Rakvice were desolate, and only 31 of the previous 101 farms were still being cultivated. To help the place, the owner Friedrich von Oppersdorff granted the right to a free wine bar on May 30, 1651. In 1673 the village had 180 residents. The reconstruction of Rakvice was slow. In 1700 the former chapel was rebuilt and was consecrated as a church to St. John the Baptist. In 1718 718 people lived in Rakvice. Of the 153 families in the village, 105 were farmers. Between 1832 and 1836 cholera was rampant in Rakwitz, 114 inhabitants died of the disease.
After the abolition of patrimonial Rakvice became an independent municipality in the Auspitz district in 1850 . In 1886, a coin find of 3,000 pieces, the so-called Rakwitzer Schatz, was made on the territory of the municipality . In addition to Moravian ducats from the 12th century, Bohemian coins, around 1000 Austrian and South German pfennigs and over 10 Hungarian denarii were found. In 1930 Rakvice had 2403 inhabitants.
On May 26, 1936, a school trip to the Pollau Mountains ended tragically. The 106 students had left at half past six in the morning with eight horse-drawn vehicles and arrived shortly before eight o'clock at the cable ferry across the Thaya near Neumühl . On the third crossing, the ferry was so overloaded by jostling children from the following carts with 52 children, 6 adults and one cart that it sank in the middle of the flooding river. 31 children and a carter drowned with his team.
After the Munich Agreement, Rakvice remained with the rest of Czechoslovakia and was located directly on the German border. The municipality was incorporated into the Brno-Land region. In 1940 there was a second coin find in the village, which included ten thalers and two ducats from the second half of the 17th century. After the Second World War, Rakvice came to Okres Břeclav . In 1952 another 15 gold ducats from the reign of Matthias Corvinus in the middle of the 15th century were found in Rakvice . The fourth coin find from 1978 comprised 452 silver coins from the 17th century. In 1998 there was a fifth coin find in Rakvice, it contained 35 kreuzers that were minted between 1659 and 1665.
Community structure
No districts are shown for the municipality of Rakvice. The basic settlement units are Rakvice and Trkmanský Dvůr ( Trkmanitzer Hof ).
Attractions
- Church of John the Baptist, the chapel originally consecrated to St. Andrew by Bohuslaus von Zwole , was consecrated as a church less than a century after it was destroyed by the Bocskayaks in 1700. In 1875 the church was expanded; the steeple is 33.66 meters high.
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, created in 1775 by Thomas Schweigl.
- Monument to the drowned children, erected in 1936 in the cemetery.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Josef Edvard Kornyšl (1824–1873), enlightener and member of the state parliament, co-founder of the Podivín share sugar factory
- František Vlastimil Průdek (1822–1873), Moravian revolutionary
- František Ladislav Fintajsl (1878–1926), educator
- Ctibor Nečas (1933–2017), historian
Lived and worked in the place
- Alois Mrštík (1861–1925) was a teacher in Rakvice from 1882 to 1884
