Hustopeče
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- For village with similar name see Hustopeče nad Bečvou.
Hustopeče (in Germ. Auspitz) is a town in southern Moravia of the Czech Republic with 5,956 inhabitants. The Hustopeče lies in the Břeclav District and is 25 km northwest of Břeclav.
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[edit] History
Hustopeče is first mentioned in 1303. By the end of the 19th century, it was on the byline from Šakvice north to the Vienna-Bruno-Prague line. Until the end of the Second World War, most of its inhabitants were ethnic Germans.
The town skyline was dominated by the gothic St. Wenceslaus' church, whose 74 m high steeple collapsed in 1961. This damaged the church's structure greatly, and in 1962 the Czechoslovk government ordered it to be torn down. A new futuristic church was built on the site of the old one between 1990 and 1994, and was designed by L. Kolka. The new St. Wenseclaus' church has a 47 m high steeple--52 m if one counts its cross.
[edit] People from Hustopeče
- Ilse Tielsch, an Austrian writer
[edit] Personalities
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk lived in Auspitz/Hustopeče from 1861-1868. His parents' graves are located in the town cemetery.
[edit] References
- Much of the information in this article is based on and translated from that found in its German equivalent.
[edit] External links
- Municipal website (in Czech)
- Monuments of Hustopeče (in Czech, pdf)
