Radostice

Radostice ( German Radostitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. You more than twelve kilometers southwest of the city center of Brno and belongs to Okres Brno- venkov.

Geography

Radostice is located on the right side above the valley of Bobrava in Bobravská Highlands. The village lies on the edge of the nature park Bobrava. To the east rises the Lichý ( 346 m ) in the west of Teplý Kopec ( 438 m) and northwest of the Tmavý Žlíbek (421 m). West of the village leads the railway line Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou - Brno through the forest. The station Radostice one kilometers outside the village between the tunnels Velky and Maly Prštický Prštický.

Neighboring towns are Radostický Mlýn, U Nádrazí and Střelice in the north, Ostopovice in the northeast, Nebovidy, Modřice and Želešice in the east, Ořechovičky, Ořechov and Tikovice the southeast, Prštice in the south, Hlína the southwest, Neslovice in the west and Kratochvilka, Tetčice and Omice in northwest.

History

The first written mention of the village took place in 1330. Maybe the name of the village from the Slavic deity Radhosť derived. Radostice was an independent good and knight's seat. 1333 founded the Vladiken Mikuláš and Petr Radostice of the Church of St. Simon and Jude. At the beginning of the 17th century consisted Radostice from 18 houses. The parties and the manor went out during the Thirty Years' War, and the village was mostly desolate. In hooves register only three managed properties are reported for Radostice. 1790 consisted of 14 houses Radostice. 1834 the place had grown to 31 stores and had 143 inhabitants.

After the abolition of patrimonial Radostice formed in 1850 a municipality in the district of Brno team. In the 1860s, the west was the village of 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 1921, the municipality was assigned to the Okres Brno- venkov. Between 1948 and 1960 belonged to Radostice Okres Brno- okolí. After its cancellation Radostice came back to Okres Brno- venkov. In 2000 the community had 651 inhabitants and consisted of 218 residential buildings.

Community structure

For the community Radostice no districts are reported. To Střelice heard the monolayer Radostický Mlýn.

Attractions

• Church of Sts. Simon and Jude, detectable since 1333. The originally Gothic building received its present form at conversions in the year 1772 and 1850.
• Nature Park Bobrava, west and north of the town
• Natural Monument Střelická bažinka, north of Radostice in the Valley of Bobrava at the railway bridge, protected since 1980
• Stone railway bridge over the Železňák Bobrava, north of the railway line Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou - Brno.
• Railway tunnel, both tunnels with a length of 85 m and 322 were in the 1860s under the direction of the chief engineer August Köstlin 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.