Velatice

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Velatice
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Velatice (Czech Republic)
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Basic data
State : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
Region : Jihomoravský kraj
District : Brno-venkov
Area : 226 ha
Geographic location : 49 ° 12 '  N , 16 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '51 "  N , 16 ° 45' 11"  E
Height: 252  m nm
Residents : 749 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code : 664 05
License plate : B.
traffic
Street: Šlapanice - Hostěnice
Next international airport : Brno-Tuřany
structure
Status: local community
Districts: 1
administration
Mayor : Marie Švábenská (as of 2010)
Address: Velatice 35
664 05 Tvarožná
Municipality number: 584096
Website : www.velatice.cz

Velatice (German Welatitz , formerly Wellatitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is located eleven kilometers east of the city center of Brno and belongs to the Okres Brno-venkov .

geography

Velatice is located at the southern foot of the Drahaner Bergland in the Thaya-Schwarza valley basin . The village lies on both sides of the Roketnice stream. To the northeast rises the Na Krátkých (352 m), in the southeast the Santon (296 m), south of the Žuráň (286 m), in the west the Nová hora (324 m) and to the northwest the Stará hora and Ořechová hora. The D1 / E50 / E462 motorway passes to the south , with the next exits 210 and 203 at Holubice and Podolí . The cement plant of the Českomoravský cement company is located to the northeast.

Neighboring towns are Horákov and Mokrá in the north, Sivice in the northeast, Tvarožná in the southeast, Maxlůvka, Rohlenka, Jiříkovice and Šlapanice in the south, Bedřichovice and Podolí in the southwest and Truksův Mlýn, Pernikářův Mlýn and Líšeň in the west.

history

The Roketnice Valley has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic . Four settlements of arable farmers and shepherds from the Neolithic were found in the corridors of the community . Other finds are to be assigned to the bell beaker culture , Aunjetitz culture and Middle Danube barrow culture. The most important site comes from the Late Bronze Age . In 1924, Přemysl Ondráček discovered a cremation grave in the Zadní půllány corridor near Maxlůvka, which was probably laid out as a barrow. The cultural group Velatická kultura was named after this find . More recent finds can be assigned to the Kritschen and Horákov cultures. Another settlement was built around 400 BC. From the beginning of the era until the Great Migration, Germanic tribes settled here . A large burial mound was discovered at the Žuráň hill in 1853 with some originally richly decorated graves from the time of the Great Migration, which were looted soon after their construction. Between 1948 and 1950 there was a partial investigation of the grave site on the Žuráň. It was found that members of the upper class of a Germanic tribe are buried in the graves. The early historian Josef Poulík from Brno assumes that the 14 m high burial mound, built at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th centuries, is the burial place of the Lombard Duke Wacho , who died around 539 . Some other historians suspect that it was the burial place of the Herulian tribal prince Rudolf .

The first written mention of the village was in a deed of donation issued on May 30, 1288 by the Bohemian King Wenceslas II to the chief clerk of Moravia, Veleslav. In 1321 Velatice belonged to Queen Elisabeth Richza , who donated the village in 1323 to the Cistercian monastery Aula Sanctae Mariae in Altbrno, which she founded. During the Hussite Wars , a battle took place around Šlapanice on May 17, 1430, in which the Hussites were defeated. After Moravia did not recognize Georg von Podiebrad as the administrator of the country, his henchman Jan von Boskowitz invaded the area in 1449 . In 1468 and 1469, Velatice was visited twice by the troops of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus . During the Thirty Years' War in 1645 during the siege of Brno by General Torstensson, Swedish troops passed through Velatice and devastated the place. In the hoof register of 1656, 18 properties are shown for Velatice, three of which were desolate. In 1714 Johann Christian von Freienfels bought the villages of Wellatitz and Bosenitz and added them to his rule of Lösch. In 1733 the village consisted of six farms, eleven half-huts and two kötners. In the years 1742 and 1744 Prussian troops passed through the place. On August 17, 1769, Emperor Joseph II drove through Velatice on the way to Slavíkovice , where he tilled a field. In 1790 163 people lived in the 32 houses of the village. On December 21, 1798, the Russian general Suvorov occupied the area of Šlapanice with 24,000 men . The Russians camped here until January 9, 1799 and used up all of the residents' supplies; after their departure an emergency broke out. In the days before the Battle of Austerlitz , Velatice was sacked by French troops at the end of 1805. In 1809 the French moved through the village again. In 1819 Franz Ritter von Freienfels bequeathed the villages of Wellatitz and Bosenitz to Count Eduard Belcredi. In 1834 Velatice consisted of 43 houses and had 260 inhabitants.

After the abolition of patrimonial Velatice / Welatitz formed from 1850 a political municipality in the district administration Brno . During the German War in 1866, Archduke Stefan's regiment camped near Velatice for a month . In 1869 the community had 418 inhabitants, in 1890 495 people lived in the 83 houses of the village. In 1896 a section of the Sokol Lösch gymnastics club was established in Velatice. Between 1897 and 1899 the district road from Maxlowka to Mokrau was built . In 1901 525 people lived in the village. The volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1908. In 1921 Velatice was assigned to the newly formed Okres Brno-venkov. Between 1950 and 1960 the municipality belonged to the Okres Brno-okolí, from 1961 back to the Okres Brno-venkov. The old sunken road to Horákov was plowed 1957th In 1961, after three years of construction, the kindergarten was inaugurated. Between 1980 and 1990 Velatice was incorporated into Mokrá-Horákov .

Community structure

No districts are identified for the municipality of Velatice. Velatice includes the one-layer Maxlůvka ( Maxlowka ).

Attractions

  • Chapel of St. Anna on the village square, built in 1909
  • Vinohrady natural monument, southwest of the village
  • Natural monument Velatická slepencová stráň, south of Velatice

Individual evidence

  1. Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)