Do You Know That? The Moravian Best I.

Moravia and Silesia in our series are long forgotten part of our country and so we will try to repay that debt by continue in this endless series.

Moravia, it's not just the open native fields, fertile vineyards and picturesque mountains, but also an interesting city, which many times touched the Czech history. Which from all of them is really the oldest?

In the foothills of Jeseníky is the town, which just passes through the historic border between Moravia and Silesia. Roughly 50 miles northeast of Olomouc, in Black Creek, was founded around 1213 mining town, named Bruntal. This was the institutional probably the oldest city in the Czech lands. For the first time mentioned in the deed Uničovská King Premysl Otakar I. in 1223. From document implies that Bruntal was founded as the first settlement with the Magdeburg city law in the Czech lands. This fact was reflected in a unique position Bruntal, which was up until 1352 for all appeals in the faeces of the Magdeburg city law in Northern Moravia, among others, the royal city of Olomouc and Opava for. Flashy and privileges Bruntál resulted from a significant revenue for the extraction of precious metals. In addition, gold and silver are managed and copper, iron and lead. Mining is then linked with the town's history, the toughest period of the modern age, time of rebellion, domination of the Germans and the overall decline of the local trade. On the contrary, the boom came to almost half of the eighteenth century, when the owners started a significant portion of the textile industry and other industries. It is at least part of the history of this interesting city, but we will not have to move on.

Do you know which of the Moravian churches is the oldest one?

The oldest church in Moravian territory was the sanctuary of St. Jan at the village at Blue Uherske Hradiste, which was founded around the year 830, after the demise of the Great Moravian Empire, however, abandoned. On the same place as it was now stay its copies in the vicinity of a hypothetical archeological museum. And she historic building would now be the oldest of its type in the entire territory of present-day Republic.

The oldest monastery Hradisko is then situated at the northern edge of the city of Olomouc. The monastery was founded in 1078 some Benedictine convent Otto I of Olomouc. It served its purpose despite being plundered by many, until 1802, when there was at the instigation of Joseph II. military hospital.

St. Wenceslas Cathedral in Olomouc is also a great best, since it is the south tower with a height of 102 meters is the highest Moravian building. In a nationwide ranking is the second highest tower of the neo-gothic buildings even in the first place in the whole country!

So it was a little overview of the BEST Moravian history, for which we look again at the next continuation of the series do you know that?

Text: Jan Chaloupka

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