Velké Heraltice

Velké Heraltice ( German United Herlitz, also large Herlitz ) is a municipality in Okres Opava in the Moravian- Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.

Geography

Velké Heraltice located 14 kilometers west of the town of Opava in the southeastern highlands Brantická at the mouth of the creek Horecký creek in the Heraltický. Neighboring towns are Tábor and Brumovice ( Brown village ) in the north, Loděnice ( Lodenitz ) in the Northeast, Kamenec ( Kamentz ) in the east, Sádek in the south, Svobodne Heřmanice ( Freihermersdorf ) and Košetice the southwest, Male Heraltice ( Kleinherrlitz ) and Horni Benešov in the west and Lichnov and Sosnová in the northwest. Through the town, the highway No. I/11 runs.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1230 and belonged to the late 14th century the Knights of Heraltitz (of Heroltsdorf of Heralticz ). The fort built by them was the first time in 1377 in the division of the Duchy of Opava mentioned by name, as Heraltitz was incorporated into the Duchy of Hunters Village. For its owners, among other things, included the Lords of Drahotusch (z Drahotuš ) of in-fill and the Birka of Nassiedel ( Birka z Násile ). 1522 came Heraltitz to Bernard of Vrbno, who had in 1525 entered in the Opava country charts with the consent of the Bohemian King Ludwig II. End of the 16th century built the Count Vrbno the castle to a Renaissance castle. Stefan from Vrbno sold in 1600 to United Herlitz Sigismund Younger Sedlnitzky of Choltitz from which it 1611 Bohuslaw Pawlowsky of Pawlowitz ( Bohuslav Pavlovský z Pavlovic ) passed and after his death by Wenzel Freiherr was acquired by Oppersdorf. His son Wenzel Ignaz Großherrlitz sold in 1668 to the Moravian provincial judge Colonel Georg Stefan of Vrbno. He caused about 1676 the Baroque reconstruction of the castle. In 1694 he sold the dominion United Herlitz the Cistercian monastery Velehrad. During his reign a terrace -like flower and fruit tree garden and a pheasant was created in 1720 at the castle. 1767 sold the monastery the rule of United Herlitz due to a pre-emption turn to the Counts of Vrbno. Eugene of Vrbno prompted a redesign of the castle, with many halls were decorated with rococo stucco. Beginning of the 19th century orangery was built and created in 1830 an English park with exotic trees. 1840, the family acquired Mitrowsky of Nemischl the rule United Herlitz, 1849 Wilhelmine Kinsky.

After the abolition of patrimonial Großherrlitz belonged since 1850 to the District Commission Opava, which came in 1918 to the newly established Czechoslovakia. From 1899 until the expropriation of 1945 were the castle and the related goods in the possession of Count Bellegarde, who built a chapel in the Gothic Revival style in 1900.

After the Munich Agreement in 1938 Velké Heraltice / Great Herlitz was added to the German Reich and belonged to the district of Freudenthal in 1939 and then to 1945 the district of Opava. After the Second World War came in 1945 to Czechoslovakia back.

Community structure

The municipality Velké Heraltice consists of the districts:

• Košetice ( Kosh village)
• Sádek ( Zattig )
• Tabor ( Tabor )
• Velké Heraltice ( United Herlitz )

As well as the settlements Malé Heraltice (small Herlitz ), Nevrlovo (Marx) and Sádecký Dvůr ( Zattiger Grange ).

Attractions

• The lying on a hill Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception was built in 1751-1753 on the site of an earlier building dating from the 15th century.
• The Velké Heraltice castle was built late 16th century in the Renaissance style on the site of a fort. About 1676 it was baroque redesigned and extended in 1900 to a chapel in the Gothic Revival style.

Personalities

• Wilhelm Gebauer (1882-1972), Austrian Lieutenant-
• Renata Hampel CJ (1930-2013), German nun ( Mary Ward Sister )