Sobotovice

Sobotovice ( German Sobotowitz ) is a municipality in the Czech Republic. It is located 16 kilometers south of the center of Brno and belongs to Okres Brno- venkov.

Geography

Sobotovice located in the Thaya Schwarza valley floor on both sides of the creek Syrůvka ( Kressbach ) just before its confluence with the Satava ( Vießbach ). West of the village leads the expressway R 52 / E 461 over the next exit 17 is located at Ledce.

Neighboring towns are Syrovice in the north, and Rajhrad Holasice in the northeast, Vojkovice in the east, Ledce and Na Podhrázkém in the south, Medlov and Němčičky in the southwest, and Pravlov Bratčice in the west and Silůvky in the northwest.

History

Archaeological finds in the municipality have a settlement after since the Neolithic period. The first written mention of Sobotovice took place in 1258 in one of Přemysl Otakar II confirmed in Pletzk exchange contract between Bohuslav from Get stone and the Breunauer Abbot Martin, in the former the village against the estates of the recently desolate fallen Fixed Sebranice the Benedictine Order for the Monastery Raigern left. Below Sobotovice remained subservient to the middle of the 19th century the abbey Raigern. Since the 14th century is in Sobotovice a watermill proven, and followed up with a second. At the beginning of the 17th century the village consisted of 31 economies. In the Thirty Years' War, the village was deserted, 1656 there were only nine houses inhabited. During the Napoleonic Wars, the village was ravaged by both the coalesced Austro- Russian forces as well as by the French. On July 28, 1811 burned large parts of Sobotice down. 1848 there was again a major fire.

After the abolition of patrimonial Sobotovice / Sobrotowitz formed in 1850 a municipality in the district team Auspitz and the jurisdiction Židlochovice. In the years 1872 and 1881 Sobotice was damaged by another fire. 1875 a one-class village school was opened in Sobotice. Sobotovice lay on the Czech- German language border and belonged to the Czech language area. Started school were the children from the German village Laatz, the language of instruction was German. In 1884 the town hall was built. 1887 went out the older of the two mills, in its place was built on the left side of the Satava on the road to the settlement Laatz Podhrázký Mlýn. The other mill Srncův Mlýn was decommissioned in 1951. The hallways to the dried mill race are still owned by the family Srnec. In 1897 the expansion of the school for a dreiklassigen lessons. In 1906, the volunteer fire department. You built in 1913 next to the Glochenturm a new firehouse. The construction applied since 1919 the road to Laatz was realized in 1937. After the Munich agreement was from 1938 to the south of the village on Vießbach the border to the German Reich. A customs station was a result, in Sobotovice furnished. The undeveloped land to the east leading past Imperial Street in 1938 had to be ceded to the German Empire. In 1939 took place in Sobotovice the groundbreaking for the construction of the autobahn in Vienna Wroclaw. Between 1948 and 1960 the village belonged to Okres Židlochovice. After its cancellation Sobotovice was the Okres Brno- venkov slammed. Until the 1960s, the land of the community comprised 470 ha in 1980 was the incorporation of Sobotovice, Bratčice and Ledce after Syrovice. Since 1990, the community is again.

Community structure

For the community Sobotovice no districts are reported.

Attractions

• Belfry