Kněžpole
Kněžpole ( German Kniespol, formerly Knieschpol ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located six kilometers northeast of Uherské Hradiště and belongs to Okres Uherské Hradiště.
Geography
Kněžpole is located at the northwestern foot of the highlands in Prakšická Dolnomoravský úval ( Southern March basin). The village is circled creek from the creeks and Březnice Mistřický. One and a half kilometers southwest opens the Březnice in March. North-east rises the Štěrky (233 m), the South East Rovná hora (350 m) and to the south the Rovnina (336 m).
Neighboring towns are Spytihněv, Napajedla and Prusinky in the north, Topolná and Březolupy in the northeast, Včelary in the east, Mistřice the southeast, Popovice and Javorovec in the south, Jarošov, Rybárny and Staré Město in the southwest, Huštěnovice in the west and Cerony and Babice in the northwest.
History
Archaeological finds indicate a prehistoric settlement in the municipal area. In the regulation of Březnice a stone ax dating from the 4th millennium BC, was found. In the hallway Hradek the grave of a Frankish warrior was from the time of Great Moravia fighting for its independence from the eastern kingdom.
The first written mention of Zneispole took place in 1220 with eleven other villages as possession of the monastery Velehrad. In 1228 the place as Knesepole, 1265 as Knespol and 1372 was referred to as Gnespul. In 1467 the monastery sat Gnespul as a security for a recorded at the city Hradiště loans. 1470 defeated in a battle east of the village between Bílovice and Mistřice a cited by Heinrich von Podiebrad Bohemian army commanded by Matthias Corvinus the King's army. In 1522 the village was called Kniezpole. After the Cistercians were not in a position to repay the borrowed sum, they had to sell in 1528 to the city Hradiště the village. 1663 the village was looted and burned during the Turkish invasion. The place name Kniežpole is narrated by 1751 Kniespol dating back to 1670. The oldest town seal is from 1709. In 1834 the parish had about 400 inhabitants. 1846 Knězopole place was called. Until the mid- 19th century the village was always part of the estates of the city Hradisch.
From 1850 formed Knězopole / Kniespol a municipality in the district team Hradisch. In 1872 the village was called Kněžpole. 1886 destroyed in a large fire eleven homesteads. In 1907, one kilometers outside the village a dairy, she presented the 1956 operating one. During the floods of 1910, the Březnice broke through the levees and flooded the village. As a result, then there was a regulation of the stream. In 1918 was the place name Kněžpol and since 1925 is the official name Kněžpole. During the German occupation, a part of the population involved in the resistance. As a result of treason in 1940 18 residents were arrested. 1959 moved from a west wind pants over the village; while eight barns were destroyed and many damaged roofs and uprooted trees. For earthworks for the construction of the water works of the pelvic bones of a mammoth was discovered in 1967. In 1975, a fragment of a mammoth scapula was excavated in the gravel pit Canada.
Community structure
For the community Kněžpole no districts are reported. Kněžpole consisting of the local documents Dědina, Markov, Brana, Trávníky, Kút and Zakri.
Attractions
- Church of St.. Anna, built in 1856
- Nature reserve in Canada, of discarded arm of the March, west of the village.
- Nature reserve Trnovec, part of the floodplain forest Kněžpolský les at the March, north west of the town
- Stone cross on the square Odkolé, on 13 July 2007 it was smashed by a lightning strike
- Crucifix next to the church
- Franz- Josephs- chestnut at the exit after Bílovice, it was planted in 1879 on the occasion of the silver wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph I..
Sons and daughters of the town
- Zdeněk Jánoš (1967-1999), football player
- Vít Valenta ( b. 1983 ), football player