ChropynÄ›
Chropyně ( German Chropin ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers north- west of Kroměříž in the Hanna and belongs to Okres Kroměříž.
Geography
The city is located in the basin of the Morava River at the confluence of Svodnice in the Malá Bečva. To the east lies the course of the river Moštěnka. Through the village leads the state road 435 between Kojetin and Kroměříž, the 436 branches off from the in the city after Přerov. In the urban area there are two large ponds, the Chropyňský fishpond in the south and the HEJTMAN in the West.
Neighboring towns are Záříčí in the north, and Kyselovice Žalkovice in the northeast, Břest in the east, in the southeast Skaštice, Plešovec, Hradisko and Postoupky in the south, Bezměrov in the southwest, and Kojetin Uhřičice in the west and Lobodice in the northwest.
History
The oldest written records of Chropyně dates from the year 1261, as Smil the newly built Cistercian monastery founded Smilheim Zbraslav and Střílky the place to Vizovice. 1457 sold to Johann Georg von Podiebrad Chropyně of Ludanitz on Rokytnice. Among the gentlemen of Ludanitz Chropyně became the seat of power of a small rule. During this time, a community of the Bohemian Brethren, which maintained a school was built. 1535 Emperor Ferdinand I granted Chropyně the market rights.
1567 sold the family of Ludanitz the reign of Vratislav of Pernstein, they still eintauschte in the same year with Hans and Adam Haug joke on Biskupitz against the estate Litomyšl. At this time the fish ponds and Chropyně emerged became known for its fish farming. Although the Haugwitz unlike the Reformed Ludanitzern were Catholics, the time of their rule was marked by tolerance towards the Bohemian Brethren. 1579 began the Governor of Moravia Hans Haug joke with the construction of new festivals New Haugwitz ( Nový Haugvicov ), whose creation him two years earlier, Emperor Rudolf II had given his consent. As the black Haug joke, as he was called, died in 1580, the building was left unfinished and from 1581 changed the owner of the domain Chropin in rapid succession.
In 1615, Bishop Franz Seraph bought Ditrichstein the rule Chropin for the Diocese of Olomouc and gave it the rule of Zdar nad Sazavou in payment. The school was founded by brothers Wenzel von Ludanitz was repealed in 1616 and converted into a Catholic church school in the course of recatholicization. During the Thirty Years' War in 1643 part of the village were burnt down. Until the replacement of patrimonial regimes in 1848 Chropin remained in the episcopal possession. In the years 1811, 1851, 1855, 1859, 1871, 1875 and 1878 caused major city fires, the parts of the inner-city development that existed at the time of a large number of wooden houses and buildings with wood shingle roof destroyed. In 1864 the incorporation of Plešovec.
1868 Chropiner Sugar Factory Co. was established and a year later the commissioning of the railway from Prerau took place in Brno, which led to the establishment of other companies. The fire water pond on the marketplace in 1877 drained and turned into a park. To a large event for the market town was the journey of Emperor Franz Joseph I, who by train from Vienna through the station drove into Chropin 1880 and was greeted by more than 10,000 people from all over the area. 1892 burned from the roof of the castle tower. In 1902, the foundation stone for the new City Hall was laid in the same year, the construction of the road to Kroměříž.
At the beginning of the 20th century was regulated as a flood of the river Moštěnka. The castle pond in 1925 was declared a nature reserve because of its water chestnut population. For the deserving Mayor Antonín Homolík originated in 1930 at the time of Czechoslovakia a monument that was removed during the German occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and built again in 1995. The in 1938, designed by German engineers motorway Prague - Zlín should lead over Chropin and meet there with the route of a planned also Reichsautobahn Breslau and Vienna, as well as the place should get connection to the Danube - Oder Canal. However, these plans were shattered by the Second World War. From 1 - May 7, 1945 German troops gathered in Chropin for a battle in the area of Kojetein to which it did not come after the surrender of the German Reich. The Chropiner sugar factory, since 1924 an independent and nationalized after 1945 company, which was founded in Vienna under the direction of Robert Schoeller, presented in 1949 a production. In 1969, emerged in the production buildings of the former sugar factory, the company Techno Plast. Since 1970 Chropyně has the rights of a city.
Local structure
The city consists of the districts Chropyně Chropyně ( Chropin ) and Plešovec ( Pleschowetz ).
Attractions
- Castle Chropyně, according to plans by Giovanni Pietro Tencalla built in 1615 for Bishop Franz Xaver von Dietrich stone and redesigned in the mid of the 19th century hunting lodge for Cardinal Friedrich Egon von Furstenberg.
- Baroque church dedicated to St. Giles, built in 1772-1780 and on September 10, 1780 by Archbishop Anton Theodor von Colloredo- Waldsee - Mels
- The castle pond Chropyňský rybnik, since 1925, Nature Reserve, the largest nesting area of the Black-headed Gull in Central Europe
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Wenzel of Ludanitz († 1571), 1541-1556 Governor of Moravia
- Emil Filla (1882-1953), painter
- Helene Scholz- Zelezny (1882-1974), sculptor,
- Hubert Havranek (1887-1970), writer