| Tasov | ||
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| Country | Czech Republic | |
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| Region | Vysočina | |
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| - elevation | 410 m (1,345 ft) | |
| Area | 7.76 km2 (3 sq mi) | |
| Population | 590 (As of 2006[update]) | |
| First mentioned | 1233 | |
| Postal code | 675 79 | |
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Location in the Czech Republic
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Tasov is a village near Velké Meziříčí. There is a baroque church of St. Peter and St. Paul, and ruins of a gothic stronghold Hrádek below the village.
Jakub Deml, one of the best Czech poets of the 20th century, was born in Tasov. Since 1922, he lived there permanently in a little "villa", the first completed building designed by the architect Bohumil Fuchs [1]. The building was subsidised by the government and also by Otokar Březina, Pavla Kytlicová and T. G. Masaryk. Deml wrote the official chronicle of Tasov until 1929 when the local council forced him to stop and found another author, following a trial accusing Deml of offending the republic and the nation [2]. Deml often wrote about Tasov (the village is sometimes used in a book's title too, such as Pozdrav Tasova (Tasov's Greeting) [3]; also one of the posthumous compilations of his works is called simply Tasov) - and made it immortal by his genius.
"When a seven-year-old boy makes his very first unaided journey to the neighbour village which is hardly half an hour walk from his home, after years he still can dream about this journey as he’d dream of a crusade to the Holy Land. The physical horizon of his eyes will get wider and wider, such as the circles on the surface of the lake into which a hydroplane fell from a thousand metres, but his spiritual horizon will even after years stay in the centre which is called the natal land. This centre will always remain his Archimedes‘-place-to-stand-on and also always his Achilles‘ heel." (Jakub Deml, Pozdrav Tasova, 1932)