Prštice

Prštice ( German Pürschitz, formerly Pürschütz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located seven kilometers east of Ivančice and belongs to Okres Brno- venkov.

Geography

Radostice is on the left above the valley at the junction of the Satava Bobravská Highlands to Thaya Schwarza valley floor. The village lies on the edge of the nature park Bobrava.

To the northeast, the Lichý collected ( 346 m), in the south the Horka (321 m) to the west, the Horka (316 m), south-west the Babí hora (351 m) and Bukovina (385 m), in the northwest of Teplý Kopec ( 438 m ). West of the village is the railway line Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou - Brno runs through the forest, the nearest train station is Silůvky.

Neighboring towns are Radostice in the north, Nebovidy in the northeast, Ořechovičky, Ořechov and Tikovice in the east, and Syrovice Bratčice the southeast, Silůvky in the south, Moravské Bránice and Ivančice the southwest, Hlína in the west and Neslovice in the northwest.

History

Archaeological finds of bone remains and tools evidence of a settlement of the local corridors in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. In the application of the tunnel Velky Prštický mammoth teeth were found.

The first written mention of Pirschicz took place in 1289 in the Rudíkover certificate of the Cistercian nunnery " Sanctae Mariae Vallis " in Oslavany. However, the village did not belong to the monastery property, but was the seat of Vladikegeschlechts Nižata, who built the festivities. According to legends should be related to the Horka a pagan fortress. After the Nižata various other Vladikengeschlechter alternated as the owner, who also had otherwise ordered goods and for managing Prštice viscount. The festivals fell into this time and was converted to a residence for the estate manager and warehouse. Since the 14th century the neighboring village Modřičky is detectable. It was probably northwest of Prštice at the Satava and was destroyed during the 1432 invasion of Duke Albrecht V. Its hallways later came to Prštice. Between 1535 and 1552 the estate Prštice Jiří Žabka of Limberg, of his goods increased significantly with the acquisition of possessions of the extinct monastery Rosa Coeli belonged. Subsequent owners were the Černohorský of Boskowitz, the Counts of Thurn, from 1672-1732 the Želecký of Počenice and subsequently the Dietrichsteiner. Gepfarrt the village was the church of St. George in Tikovice. School location was also Tikovice.

After the abolition of patrimonial Prštice formed in 1850 a municipality in the district of Brno team. In the 1860s, north of the village was the tunnel for the railway line Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou - Střelice, in which dynamite was used for the first time. 1870 went the distance in operation. In the second half of the 19th century in Prštice created their own village school. In 1921, the municipality was assigned to the Okres Brno- venkov. Between 1948 and 1960 belonged to Prštice Okres Brno- okolí. After its cancellation Prštice came back to Okres Brno- venkov. The meeting room of the municipal council in the castle was used from 1995 for Catholic services, as the cemetery chapel was unsuitable for this purpose. From 1999, about 80 Catholics gathered 253 717 crowns for the construction of a chapel, which began in 2002 after the municipal council had set a share of 1,168,063 crowns in the household. The 2002 newly elected municipal council provided a support for the Kapellenbau, so that the work rested until 2005. In 2006, the new chapel was dedicated.

Community structure

For the community Prštice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, built in the years 2002 and 2005 to 2006 above the village as a replacement for a small cemetery chapel. The three-year freeze came after the election of the municipal council, which granted no further funding for continued construction. By residents and sponsors finally the funds for further construction were applied.
• Chapel of St.. John
• Belfry
• Castle Prštice, the Renaissance castle built in the 16th century instead of the celebrations for the Counts of Thurn. Among the men of Dietrich Stein took place between 1750-1760, designed by Christian Alexander Oedtl the conversion to a baroque summer residence with park and large garden center. Next to the castle there was a farmyard with brewery. Got its present shape, the castle in the rebuilding after the fire of 1808. Then until 1919 it served as the seat of Gutverwaltung and residence of the manorial officials. 1925, the castle was nationalized. 1947 the municipality bought Prštice the object.
• Fialska Pond, northwest of the Satava
• Nature Park Bobrava, west and north of the town
• Railway tunnel Velky and Maly Prštický Prštický, north of the village at the railway station Radostice in the forest. Both tunnel with a length of 85 m and 322 were in the 1860s under the direction of the chief engineer A. Köstlin and M. Pischof first in the imperial Monarchy using dynamite propelled instead of the conventional gunpowder. They were designed for a two-pronged operation, a second track was never laid. The tunnel portals were made ​​of roughly hewn stone. When repair work was carried out in the 1970s, the laying of the track in the middle of the tunnel.

Personalities

• Viktor Kamil Jeřábek (1859-1946), the writer worked from 1887 - 1906 as a teacher in Prštice. His novel Počestná obec Valčice is about Prštice.