Slavkov pod Hostýnem

Austerlitz pod Hostynem, to 1924 Austerlitz ( German Slawkow on Hostein ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located three kilometers south of Bystřice pod Hostýnem at the foot of the mountain pilgrimage Hostýnské and belongs to Okres Kroměříž.

Geography

Austerlitz pod Hostynem is located at the northwestern foot of the host 's mountains at the transition to Hanna. The village is located on the left side above the valley of the brook Slavkovský creek at the edge of the Natural Park Hostýnské mountains. To the north rises the Bedlina ( 455 m ) in the east of Hostýnské ( 734 m), southeast of the Bukovina ( 657 m), Skalny (708 m) and Na Pasekami ( 588 m), in the south of the Hurka (421 m) and northwest the Chlum (418 m).

Neighboring towns are Bystřice pod Hostynem in the north, Vinohrádek, Lázně and Chvalčov in the northeast, Hostýnské and Na pasekách in the east, Rusava the southeast, Brusné and Hranečník in the south, Chomýž and Hlinsko pod Hostýnem the southwest, Chlum in the west and Bílavsko, Křtomil and Rychlov in the northwest.

History

Archaeological finds, including a bone grave from the La Tène period as well as objects from the time of the Corded Ware culture and derLausitzer, occupy a prehistoric settlement in the municipal area. Later, the Celts built on the Hostýnské powerful fortifications with walls; the location of the Slawkower gate is still recognizable. During the invasion of the Golden Horde legends should be fled to the residents of the area in 1241 on the Hostýnské. Then the Tartars are said to have tried to take the mountain over the Stráň.

Was first documented in 1349 Slawkow than Ones Trdlo and its BETA were based on the Fixed Slawkow. In 1365 acquired Boček I of Podiebrad the Good and graduated his reign Bystřice pod Hostýnem to. Subsequent owners were from 1418 onwards, the Lords of Tworkau, from 1447, the Lords of Sovinec and then the Lords of Sternberg and country rock. Since the Middle Ages mining of silver, gold, iron, and lime was operated at Austerlitz, remember even field names as gently and Vápenka. In the 1470s acquired Ctibor II Tovačovský Cimburg of the rule, he sold it in 1480 to Mikuláš of Hustopeče. He was succeeded by his son Burian Žabka of Limberg, who sold the property in 1555 to Přemek Prusinovský of Víckov. About Bohunka of Víckov got the rule in 1613 to her husband Václav Bitovska of Bítov. This fled after the Battle of White Mountain, from Moravia and was sentenced in 1622 in absentia to loss of the neck, of honor and of wealth. New owner of the domain was Zdeněk Vojtěch of Lobkowicz, whose son sold it in 1650 to Johann Anton von Rott Valley. During the Thirty Years' War, the area was initially devastated by the Swedes; after they leave, it came in the adjacent Wallachia, to rebellion against recatholicisation. As a result, began the decline of the whole area. In 1650, the Catholics formed 14% of the inhabitants of the minority; Johann Anton von Rottalblick sat with a heavy hand by the recatholicization the village. Even in 1671, the Dean's Office Holešov complained that Austerlitz, which had once belonged to the best villages, partly desolate and utterly run down was. Three years later were of the 26 property of the village four desolate. In 1683 the troops of the Polish king John III moved. Sobieski on the way to the liberation of Vienna from the Turkish siege of the place. Gepfarrt was Austerlitz by Bílavsko, but the population in the summer months often attended church services on the Svatý Hostýnské or went to church after Bystřice. 1789 was the possession by the Counts of red valley of the son- Count della Rovere di Monte l' Abbate over and 1804 inherited his nephew, Johann Nepomuk Graf von Wengersky that rule. He was followed in 1827 by the Baron Laudon. Until the mid-19th century Austerlitz remained subservient always Bystřice.

After the replacement of patrimonial Austerlitz / Slawkow formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Holešov. Most of the inhabitants lived by agriculture, in the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding and fruit growing dominated. Another part was working in the forest. On Chlum were two sandstone quarries, in a 1868 one of the foundation stones for the Prague National Theatre was broken. Found using the soft sandstone of Austerlitz in the construction of the Olomouc Wenceslas cathedral. On November 17, 1924, the Ministry of the Interior approved the request of the Mayor Alois Černocký to enlargement of the place name to the addition pod Hostynem / on Hostein. Since 1961, the community is part of the Okres Kroměříž.

Coat of arms

Description: starting over which a green bent- tip lies in silver three black bars on the top plate edge with a split in silver and red lily.

Local structure

For the community of Austerlitz pod Hostynem no districts are reported. At Austerlitz pod Hostynem part of the settlement Chlum.

Attractions

• Brick clock tower at the village square, built in 1833 in place of a wooden previous building dating from 1765
• Chapel at Stráň
• Mountain Hostýnské with lookout tower and monastery Svatý Hostýnské
• Remains of the castle Chlum on the homonymous hill
• Natural Monument Stráň, hillside meadow on Hostýnské east of the village