Brtnice
Brtnice | |
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Town | |
 View from castle gardens towards Brtnice | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Brtnice Location in the Czech Republic | |
| Coordinates: 49°18′30″N 15°40′34″E / 49.30833°N 15.67611°ECoordinates: 49°18′30″N 15°40′34″E / 49.30833°N 15.67611°E | |
| Country |  Czech Republic |
| Region | Vysočina |
| District | Jihlava |
| First mentioned | 1234 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Miroslava Švaříčková |
| Area | |
| • Total | 74.17 km2 (28.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 515 m (1,690 ft) |
| Population (2020-01-01[1]) | |
| • Total | 3,766 |
| • Density | 51/km2 (130/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 588 32 |
| Website | www |
Brtnice (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbr̩tɲɪtsɛ]; German: Pirnitz) is a town in Jihlava District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,800 inhabitants. The centre of the town is historically significant and is protected by law as urban monument zone.
Administrative parts[]
Villages of Dolní Smrčné, Jestřebí, Komárovice, Malé, Panská Lhota, Přímělkov, Příseka, Střížov and Uhřínovice are administrative parts of Brtnice.
Sights[]
Josef Hoffmann's house[]
The large ancestral and childhood house of the architect Josef Hoffmann is in the centre of the town. The architect's great-grandfather Franz Hoffmann moved into it in the 1780s. From a young age, Hoffmann spent most of the year away from the house but would often return, spending his summers there. His parents having died, he made subtle alterations to it in 1910–11, redecorating its interior and keeping much of the furnishings but also adding some of his own work. He and his sisters returned to it every summer until 1945, when it was seized by the (Soviet) Red Army and subsequently confiscated by the state and used as a "Workers' House". However, a plaque commemorating Hoffmann was placed on the house as early as 1970, and extensive work to strengthen the foundations and reinforce the vaults was done from 1974 to 1980.
Following a 1992 exhibition in Brtnice on Hoffmann's work mounted by the town and MAK (Vienna), the house was turned into a permanent exhibition space.[2] From then on, an ambitious programme of refurbishing the building to Josef Hoffmann's design was carried out; this was completed in 2003. From 2006, the building has been administered by the Moravian Gallery in Brno, with the assistance of MAK.[3]
Other[]
- Waldstein and Collalto rennaisance castle above the town
- Town hall, a former renaissance house
- Church of Saint Jacob, baroque rebuilt
- Former Minims (Paolans') monastery and church dedicated to St. Boromeus and blessed Giuliana
- One rennaisance brick bridge and two baroque bridges over the Brtnice River
- Jewish cemetery in the northern outskirts
- Castle ruin Ruckstein (Rokštejn) about 5 km north-east from the town, founded around 1280
Notable people[]
- Hermann of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1838–1899), German nobleman and politician
- Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Austrian architect
- Gustav Haloun (1898–1951), sinologist
- Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972), Israeli literary critic
- Zdeněk Měřínský (1948–2016), archeologist and historian, died here
Twin towns – sister cities[]
Orpund, Switzerland
References[]
- ^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.
- ^ Miroslav Ambrož: "The Hoffmann family and their remarkable home", pp. 25–29 of Josef Hoffmann and His Native House in Brtnice (Brtnice: Společnost Josefa Hoffmanna, 1998).
- ^ "Josef Hoffmann House", the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Accessed 10 November 2010.
- ^ "Partnerská obec Orpund". brtnice.cz (in Czech). Město Brtnice. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
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