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Tišnov ( German Tischnowitz ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It is located 20 kilometers northwest of the city center of Brno and belongs to Okres Brno- venkov.

Geography

Tišnov is also called the gateway to the Highlands Region. It lies in the valley of the Svratka and is from the hills Květnice ( 469 m ) hill Klucanina (410 m) and Kozi brada (366 m) surrounded.

Neighboring towns are Lomnička in the north, Iron in the northeast, and Všechovice Drásov in the east, in the southeast of Hradcany, Brezina in the south, and Vohančice Závist the southwest, Nelepeč in the west and Předklášteří in the northwest.

History

The first mention of Tusnovice was in 1233 in the wake of the founding of the monastery Porta Coeli by Constance of Hungary. The place was one of the possessions of the Marquis of Moravia, and was called from 1240 as a town. Up to the Hussite Wars, it performed well and was counted as one of the thirty sovereign cities of the Margraviate of Moravia. 1416 issued Wenceslas IV of the city the privilege to hold a funfair after Brno model. During the Hussite Wars, the city was burned down in 1428, together with the monastery and languished. 1554 granted the Abbess Barbara Konitzky Schwabenitz of the city far-reaching privileges. 1606 Tišnov was destroyed by a great fire to a large extent. In the Thirty Years' War in 1643 were the Swedes, pillaged and plundered the place. 1707 broke again from a city fire. Tišnov remained until the secularization of the monastery Porta Coeli in 1782, the most important of the monastic sinecures. 1788 Tišnov became a town. After William Mundy acquired the dominion Porta Coeli and built the monastery a cloth factory. He was succeeded in 1821 by the Baron Wittinghof.

After the abolition of patrimonial Tišnov / Tischnowitz 1850 became the seat of a district court in the political district of Brno. After the Saxon monastery of St. Marienthal had in 1861 acquired the goods in Vorkloster, the monastic convent was renewed by the Cistercian nuns. In 1885 the town was granted a rail connection to Brno, and in 1905 took the local train Deutschbrod - Tischnowitz to operate on. 1880 people lived in 2589 in Tišnov. In 1896 Tišnov was raised to the district town. In 1921 Tišnov had 3477 inhabitants. Tišnov lost on 1 January 1961 the district seat and was incorporated into the Okres Brno- venkov.

Boroughs

Tišnov consists of the districts Hajánky ( Hajanek ), Hájek ( Hajek ), Jamné ( Jamny ) Pejškov ( Pejschkow ) and Tišnov ( Tischnowitz ).

Twin Cities

Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia
Sered, Slovakia
Sulejow, Poland

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Wenceslas, formerly Gothic building, remodeled 1838-1839, with 51 m high tower
City Hall, the building dating from 1771, was given its present design 1905-1906 by Vladimír Fischer
Former savings bank, the functionalist building was erected in 1933 by Bohuslav Fuchs and Jindřich Kumpošt and now serves as headquarters of the Commercial Bank
Jamborův dum, functionalist building serves as a gallery on the painter Josef Jambor
Sand stone Marian Column, built in 1863
Porta Coeli monastery in Předklášteří
Renewed lookout tower on the hill Klucanina, 2003

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