Voděrady u Kunštátu
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Blansko | ||||
| Area : | 444 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 29 ' N , 16 ° 33' E | ||||
| Height: | 364 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 547 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 679 76 | ||||
| License plate : | B. | ||||
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| Street: | Drnovice - Sebranice | ||||
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| Status: | local community | ||||
| Districts: | 1 | ||||
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| Mayor : | Lubomír Lepka (as of 2018) | ||||
| Address: | Voděrady 160 679 01 Skalice nad Svitavou |
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| Municipality number: | 582671 | ||||
| Website : | www.voderady.cz | ||||
Voděrady (German Wodierad ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic . It is eight kilometers west of Boskovice and belongs to the Okres Blansko .
geography
Voděrady is located at the eastern foot of the Nedvědická vrchovina in the Boskowitz furrow . The village lies in the basin of the Výpustek brook. The Hůry (470 m) rises to the west and the Chlum (511 m) to the northwest. To the east of the town there are embankments of the unfinished Vienna – Wroclaw Reichsautobahn , which are crossed by State Road I / 43 / E461 .
Neighboring towns are Újezd and Sebranice in the north, Vaculka in the northeast, Skalice nad Svitavou in the east, Jabloňany and Krhov in the southeast, Pohodlí and Lysice in the south, Drnovice in the southwest, Zbraslavec in the west and Víska, Sychotín Kunštát and Podchlumí in the northwest.
history
Archaeological finds prove that the municipality has been settled since the Neolithic Age . The first written mention of the place took place in 1281, when Vladike Zbylut de Woderat appeared as a witness in a loan document issued in Brno by Jeneč von Schönberg for his servant Hořina over two hubs of land and forest near Towěř . In 1316, Mikesch de Wodirad signed as a witness in the sale of Paezendorf by Bernard von Cimburg to Stanimír von Letovice. At the beginning of the 14th century, the knights of Voděrady wore a coat of arms with golden crescent moons and a green peacock fan. Between 1531 and 1549 the goods in Voděrady were divided among the surrounding lords of Černá Hora , Lysice and Kunštát . The oldest place seal dates from 1696 and shows a running ram. In 1790 the village consisted of 58 houses and had 325 inhabitants. In 1834 Voděrady had grown to 72 houses in which 398 people lived. Until the middle of the 19th century, Voděrady remained subject to three different lords.
After the replacement of patrimonial, the three parts of Voděrady were united in 1850 to one municipality in the district administration Boskovice . When cholera broke out in 1857, seven residents died. In 1872 a new school building for a two-class school was inaugurated. In 1890 Voděrady had 516 inhabitants, in 1900 there were 566. After the discovery of a deposit of fireclay at the foot of the Hůry in 1908, two clay pits were operated west of the village. In 1909 a new three-class school building was built. Between 1919 and 1921 the road from Drnovice to Voděrady was built. In 1921 the village had 607 inhabitants. In 1925 the Alej housing estate was built . Another fireclay pit was opened in 1934 at the Kopaniny hill, southwest of the village. In the years 1939 to 1941, construction work for the Reichsautobahn Vienna-Breslau took place east of the village. On May 8, 1945, a Romanian plane was shot down in the fields on the state road while watching the retreat of the Wehrmacht. Since the beginning of 1961, the municipality has belonged to Okres Blansko . In 1973 the road to Sebranice was built . In 1980 the village consisted of 154 houses and had 496 inhabitants. Since 2001 the community has had a coat of arms and a banner.
Community structure
No districts are designated for the municipality of Voděrady.
Attractions
- Bell tower
- Cross on the village square, erected in 1857 to commemorate the cholera epidemic
