Hodonín

Hodonín ( German Göding ) is a town in the South Moravian Region (South Moravia) with 25,094 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). It is located about 50 km south-east of Brno in the March, which forms the border with Slovakia here. The railroad connects it to the southwest over Břeclav (German Lundenburg ) with Vienna and northeast across Otrokovice ( Otrokovice ) with Ostrava ( Ostrava ). For six kilometers south Slovak neighboring town holic ( Holitsch ) is a border crossing.

History

Hodonín built on the site of a Slavic castle from the 10th century. 1169 is occupied for the first time the place Hodonín 1228 was raised to the royal city. In the 16th century the city belonged to the Lords of Lipa, in that time she was largely Protestant, and was then re-Catholicised after the Battle of White Mountain. As of the end of the 18th century it moved to industry (tobacco, food, textiles ).

The city had since the High Middle Ages, a strong German minority ( Census 1910: 5952 Czech and 5223 German -language ) which are heavily by migration to Austria and Czechization decreased already in the interwar period ( 1921: 13,200 inhabitants, only 960 German, 1930: from 13,166 Ew. 582 German only ) and in 1945 went out with the collective expulsion of Germans ( Beneš decrees ).

Twinning

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), founder and first president of Czechoslovakia
  • Eugen Neufeld (1882-1950), actor
  • Josef Redlich (1869-1936), politician, lawyer, last kk Finance

Helene Roth (1904-1995), architect, engineer, first in Austria

  • Václav Nedomansky (1944 ), Czechoslovak ice hockey player
Kraj Okres Hectare Morava (river) Archlebov Bukovany (Hodonín District) Bzenec Kostelec (Hodonín District) Kyjov (Hodonín District) Lipov Milotice Moravany (Hodonín District) Nenkovice Skalka (Hodonín District) Skoronice Suchov Vnorovy Vracov
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