Diváky

Diváky ( German Diwak ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located six kilometers west of Klobouky u Brna and belongs to Okres Břeclav.

Geography

Diváky is located in the hills of the Highlands Boleradická, a western spur of Steinitzer forest in the valley of the brook Divácký creek. To the north of the Lichy rises (331 m), in the northeast of Nad Rasoviskem (315 m ) southeast of the Nedánov ( 368 m), in the south of Přední kout (410 m ) southwest of the Zadnà kout and Holý vrch (401 m ) and in the west of Žerotínský vrch ( 381 m ) and Svatojanský vrch (St. Johannisberg, 361 m).

Neighboring towns are Šitbořice and Borkovany in the north, Marti Nice in the northeast, Klobouky u Brna and Divácký Mlýn in the east, Augustinov, Morkůvky and Boleradice the southeast, Horni Bojanovice and Kurdejov in the south, Starovice the southwest, Nikolčice in the west and Novy Dvur in the northwest.

History

The first written mention of Diwaci took place in 1210 in the founding charter of the Premonstratensian Obrowitz ( Zábrdovice ) as a donation of Lev Klobouks. However, this instrument proved to be a later forgery dating from the 13th century, so that the oldest written record about the village, the certificate of ownership document of Pope Gregory IX. is valid from September 24, 1237. Later the Brno Herburgen Monastery acquired the goods. Between 1578 and 1581 the ownership of the Herburgen monastery at the Jesuit College was transferred. Since 1782 there was a school. Diváky fell during the Josephine reforms to the religious fund from which it was purchased by Karoline von Liechtenstein. She bequeathed the goods Diváky and Boleradice her illegitimate son of Charles Louis of Fribert. Subsequent owners were the Barons of Levetzow.

After the abolition of patrimonial Diváky / Diwak formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Auspitz. 1937 was a distillery. After the district town Auspitz was in 1938 added to the German Empire as a result of the Munich Agreement, Diváky was then to 1945 assigned to the District Policy Brno-Country and the jurisdiction Klobouky. After the end of World War II the Okres Hustopeče was restored. After its completion in 1960 is part of the repeal Diváky Okres Břeclav. Near the village there are vineyards.

Community structure

For the community Diváky no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Castle Diváky that of a park surrounded four -winged building was built in the late 17th century as a monastery. During the Second World War it served as a field hospital. After the expropriation of the Barons of Levetzow was in 1945 in the castle initially an asylum for young Jews and then set up a training center for tractor drivers. From 1953, the castle served as an agricultural vocational school for forging and Wagner, and then 1975-1998 as Medium Professional Institute of Electrical Engineering. Since 2006 the castle is privately owned.
• Church of the Assumption, it is demonstrably since 1287
• Museum of the Brothers Vilém and Alois Mrštík
• Grave of Vilém Mrštík
• Kout Nature Reserve Roviny, south of the village on Přední
• Kout hillfort of the Hallstatt period and protected oak tree at ZadnÃ