Sivice

Sivice ( German Siwitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 13 kilometers east of the center of Brno and belongs to Okres Brno- venkov.

Geography

Sivice located at the southern foot of the Drahany country on the edge of the Thaya Schwarza valley floor. The village is situated on both sides of the creek Pozořický creek. To the north rises the Velka Baba (420 m) and northwest of the Na Krátkých (352 m). To the north- west is the cement plant of the company Českomoravský cement.

Neighboring towns are Hostěnice in the north, Pozořice in the northeast, Kovalovice in the east, Slavíkovice, Velešovice, Stara Posta and Holubice to the southeast, and Kruh Blažovice in the south, and Tvarožná Velatice in the southwest and Horákov and Mokrá in the northwest.

History

Under the village is possibly located a prehistoric tomb. 1959 Body grave of a Celtic warrior from the 3rd century BC, was found in an excavation. Two other graves were destroyed during the construction of a basement. The finds are now housed at the Moravian Museum.

The first mention of the village is to be carried out in 1251 in a letter from Jerome Lomnitz at the Brno judge according to the local chronicle, in which he wrote about the tithe income from Sivice for payment of a debt. However, the chronicler gives no source. The first certain mention of Sibcz can be found in a document of Catherine of Deblíns that the village in 1317 along with Velké Blažovice, Malé Blažovice and Ořechovičky and the church patronage rights in Ořechov and Šitbořice the donated by her late husband Bag by Lomnitz Dominican convent of St. Anne at Brno handed. 1318 confirmed John of Luxembourg to the monastery possession of the site donated by the sisters Catherine and Gerusa of Deblín villages Sypcz and Blažovice. In 1338 the village was called villis Siebitz. The place was at that time the fortified farm of Nicholas of Siebitz ( Mikuláš ze Sivic ), he fell in 1346 on the side of King John of Crécy. Due to its location on the trade route from Brno to Olomouc and promoting the development of the monastery Sivice grew to a large village. At the beginning of the 17th century was the site of 38 houses. In 1718 the village was called Siwytz. In the South Moravian peasant revolt of 1738, the. Because of the non-compliance of a patent of Charles VI erupted over Fronerleichterungen by the gentlemen, also the Sivicer subjects involved and refused to forced labor. Four leaders of the rebellion were after their crackdown ordered to Brno and briefly imprisoned in the Spielberg. In Teresian cadastre of 1754 50 properties are shown for Sivice. Until the dissolution of the monastery of St. Anna in the King's garden at Old Brno during the Josephine reforms on May 2, 1782 Sivice belonged to the monastery of goods. Then Sivice was together with the Good Blažovice the kk Goods placed under administration. In 1790, 430 people lived in the 75 houses of the village. 1824 Franz Xaver auctioned by Dietrich stone Proskau the Good Blažovice with Sivice for 96050 guilders. 1830 Sivice had grown to 92 stores and had 478 inhabitants. 1843 Count Dietrich Stein wrote jointly owning his three daughters Mary, Antonia and Theresa. After Antonia Countess Mitrovský had died of Mitrovice and Nemyšl 1847, changed Franz Xaver Ditrichstein 1850, the available and allowed a division of the property. Owners of Blažovice including Lehn Sokol Nice and Tuřany were against compensation payments to the heirs with him of the brothers František and Arnost Mitrovský.

After the abolition of patrimonial Siwitz formed in 1850 a political communities in the District Commission Wischau. In the middle of the 19th century produced in Siwitz two brickyards, still two quarries were on the place hallways operated. The Kommunziegelei was decommissioned in 1862. Since 1872 the spelling Sivice is in use. In 1900 the village consisted of 143 houses and had 791 inhabitants. After the abolition of Okres Vyškov the community between 1950 and 1960 belonged to Okres Austerlitz, with the beginning of 1961 she was assigned to the Okres Brno- venkov. 2004 won the competition Sivice Village of the Year in the South Moravian Region.

Community structure

For the community Sivice no districts are reported.

Attractions

  • Memorial of St.. Trinity created in 2000, designed by Giles Sindlar, the portrait is the work of glass artist Karel Rechlík.
  • Statue of St. Florian, created in 1894
  • Betsäule on the Štumperk, built in 1913, before there was a basket oak with a holy picture
  • Baroque Cross from 1772
  • Cross stone, it was probably erected in the 15th or 16th century as a memorial stone. According to legend, the stone in the 9th century to have been erected by the apostles Cyril and Methodius in the Christianization of Great Moravia; another claimed that the. at the place of St. Adalbert of Prague should be rested on his way to the missionary work of the Prussians.
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