Vyškov
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Jihomoravský kraj | ||||
| District : | Vyškov | ||||
| Area : | 5040 ha | ||||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 17 ′ N , 17 ° 0 ′ E | ||||
| Height: | 245 m nm | ||||
| Residents : | 20,883 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||||
| Postal code : | 682 01 | ||||
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| Railway connection: | Brno – Přerov | ||||
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| Status: | city | ||||
| Districts: | 14th | ||||
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| Mayor : | Petr Hájek (as of 2007) | ||||
| Address: | Masarykovo náměstí 1 682 11 Vyškov |
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| Municipality number: | 592889 | ||||
| Website : | www.vyskov-mesto.cz | ||||
Vyškov (German Wischau ) is a Czech city in Jihomoravský kraj . It lies at the foot of the Drahaner Bergland on the Haná River .
history
Vyškov was mentioned for the first time in 1141, from then until the 18th century it was owned by the Olomouc bishopric . From the 13th century it was the center of a German-speaking island , the inhabitants of which were gradually assimilated from the end of the 19th century and almost completely expelled from 1945 onwards.
After the occupation by French troops in the third coalition war , the battle of Wischau took place on November 25, 1805 .
In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the city after Nazi plans should the center of a German island around the training area Wischau form, and so 33 villages, a total of five stages in 1941-1945 evacuated.
Until 2004 the city was the seat of the University of the Army in Vyškov (Vysoká vojenská škola pozemního vojska ve Vyškově) . Today the Institute for Protection against Weapons of Mass Destruction (Ústav ochrany proti zbraním hromadného ničení) of the successor university - the University of Defense is located here .
Town twinning
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Michalovce , Slovakia (1970) -
Döbeln , Saxony (1992) -
Jarosław , Poland (2000) -
Virovitica , Croatia (2001)
City structure
The city Vyškov consists of the districts Brňany ( Brindlitz ) Dědice ( Dieditz ) Hamiltony ( Hamilton ), Křečkovice ( Kretschkowitz ) Lhota, Nosálovice ( Nosalowitz ) Nouzka ( Mels ) Opatovice ( Opatowitz ) Pařezovice ( Parschesowitz ) Pazderna ( Pasdern ), Rychtářov ( Richtersdorf ), Vyškov-Město, Vyškov-Předměstí and Zouvalka.
Attractions
- Plague column (1719) on the market square
- town hall
- Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary
- Lock
- synagogue
- Jewish Cemetery
sons and daughters of the town
- Andreas Zelinka (1802–1868), Mayor of Vienna
- Alois Valenta (1830-1918), doctor
- Bohumil Navrátil (1870–1936), historian, archivist, history professor
- Fritz Machatschek (1876–1957), geographer and university professor
- Klement Gottwald (1896–1953), communist politician
- Otto Planetta (1899–1934, executed in Vienna), Austrian National Socialist and assassin
- Jan Anderle (1900–1982), test pilot and designer
- Bohumír Štědroň (1905–1982), musicologist and pianist
- Karel Kachyňa (1924–2004), director and screenwriter
- Alois Piňos (1925–2008), composer and music teacher
- Boris Hybner (1941–2016), pantomime, actor, dramaturge and director
- Josef Mazura (* 1956), soccer player and soccer coach
- Tomáš Jan Podivínský (* 1969), politician and diplomat
- Pavel Kolařík (* 1972), ice hockey player
- Michal Grošek (* 1975), ice hockey player
- Lada Kozlíková (* 1979), racing cyclist
- Michal Kadlec (* 1984), soccer player
- Michal Barinka (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Filip Chlup (* 1985), soccer player
