Boršice

Boršice, 1961-1996: Boršice u Buchlovic ( German Borschitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located eight kilometers west of Uherské Hradiště and belongs to Okres Uherské Hradiště.

Geography

Boršice located at the southern foot of the mountain Mars in Moravian Slovakia. The village is surrounded by vineyards in the valley Dlouhá Řeka creek at the mouth of Medlovický. To the north lies the Stauweiher Nad Sovínem.

Neighboring towns are Buchlovice in the north, and Tupesy Zlechov in the northeast, Kostelany nad Moravou the southeast, and Nedakonice Polešovice in the south, Tucapy the southwest, Stříbrnice in the west and Smraďavka and Lázně Leopoldov in the northwest.

History

The village was probably founded during the colonization of the area by the end of the 12th century. The first mention of Borsiz took place in August 1220 when Bishop Robert of England the place then assigned to the monastery Velehrad. A dated to the year 1202 certificate, which acquired in 1202 Margrave Vladislav Henry Borsiz for 50 pounds of silver by a knight Přibyslav and then donated to the monastery founded by him to have, has proven to be a forgery from the mid-13th century.

On 14 January 1421, the town was ravaged by the Hussites on their retreat from Uherský Ostroh. The church and rectory was ruined and the pastor, who was hiding in the vineyards carried. Only in 1453 was the reconstruction of the church. To the parish were Tucapy and Zlechov and Tupesy. The latter place was umgepfarrt 1911 after Velehrad. In the 17th century the village was seriously considered in the invasions of the Turks affected and burnt down several times. The reconstruction of the place was in large part by the recruitment of new settlers. Thus, the number of inhabitants grew within a century back to 907. Boršice was one of the wine-growing villages of the monastery. The village consisted in 1820 of 237 houses. After the abolition of patrimonial regimes was 1848, the municipality Boršice / Borschitz, which belonged to the district of Hungarian Hradisch since 1850. The Church in Boršice belongs since 1953 to the Office of the Dean Bzenec. Boršice belongs to the Moravian wine varieties. Between 1961 and 1996, the communities bore the name Boršice u Buchlovic.

In Boršice is the folklore ensemble Pentla and brass music Lachapelle Boršičanka

Community structure

For the community Boršice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Church of St. Wenceslas, the church dedicated to St. Peter, originally was rebuilt after being destroyed by the Hussites 1453. A little later, was their Umweihung. 1674 donated the famous Cistercian Hirschmentzl Christian Church 140 guilders. The Gemeälde of the parish patron saint on the main altar is made by Ignaz Raab. Its present form was the church when converting from 1791.
• Rectory
• Cemetery
• Statue of St. John of Nepomuk
• Exhibition at the birthplace of the RAF bomber pilot Stanislav Mikula, opened in 2008

Sons and daughters of the town

• Stanislav Mikula (1918-2006), Czechoslovakian military pilot in the foreign army from 1939 to 1945, he was 1949 victims of the communist purges