Biskoupky (Brno-Country District)

Biskoupky ( German Biskoupka ) is a town in the South Moravian Region (Czech Republic). On 581 acres there (as of 1 January 2013) live 192 inhabitants.

History

1131, the village was first mentioned. According to tradition, the name of the place of bishops is to come, the time Biskupský dvorec called him. Other owners were in January 1445 and since 1543 Purkant Christoph von Waldstein, who also create a stronghold here ließ.1573 sold this the place with the courts, malt house, bakery, brewery, smithy and sheep to Ladislaus the Younger of Lobkowicz. After the Thirty Years' War the city was devastated in 1652. Under the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II, the sites were divided among the subjects who had to pay for it emphyteutische lease. 1850 lived in the village of 221 ​​inhabitants, in 1953 there were 93

Personalities

• Vítězslav Nezval, Czech poet, writer and translator