Ostrožská Lhota

Ostrožská Lhota
Ostrožská Lhota
Municipality
	View from the north
	Flag Coat of arms
	Ostrožská Lhota Location in the Czech Republic
	Coordinates: 48°58′32″N 17°28′3″E / 48.97556°N 17.46750°ECoordinates: 48°58′32″N 17°28′3″E / 48.97556°N 17.46750°E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Zlín
District	Uherské Hradiště
First mentioned	1371
Government
• Mayor	Roman Tuháček
Area
• Total	6.35 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Elevation	207 m (679 ft)
Population (2020-01-01)
• Total	1,480
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	687 23
Website	www.ostrozskalhota.cz

Ostrožská Lhota (Czech pronunciation: [ˈostroʃskaː ˈlɦota]) is a municipality and village in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,500 inhabitants.

History[]

The first written mention of the village comes from 1371, the reign of emperor Charles IV, when the John Henry, Margrave of Moravia passed the land of Uherský Ostroh to his son John Sobieslaus.^[2] At that time, the village was called Majori Lhota (Latin for Great Lhota).

In 1421, the so far Catholic parishioners had to follow the example of their master Hašek of Waldsheim and adopt the religion of the Moravian Church. In the Hussite Wars, they fought along with the Hussites.

In 1511, John of Kunovice bought the land of Ostroh and his house later held it until the Thirty Years' War. At that time, the village was named Ostrovská Lhota, Ostrá Lhota or Kamenná Lhota (literally Stony Lhota). In 1592, the lords of Kunovice had a first register of cottars and their property made – Administrative register of the land of Ostroh of 1592. This register listed a total of 72 family farms. The following names were listed there and have been preserved up to the 20th century: Blahuš, Vaněk, Vlk, Pavelka, Štajnoch, Bachan, Hanáček, Válek, Hanák, Malušek.

After the Battle of White Mountain, the last lord of the land, John Bernard of Kunovice, escaped to Transylvania and his property was bought in 1625 by Gundakar of Liechtenstein, whose descendants held the village until 1918. At the change of the 16th and 17th century (in the years 1663, 1674, 1699, 1705), the village suffered attacks by the Kuruc, Turkish and Tatar peoples from the kingdom of Hungary and was repeatedly burned down.

An independent clerical ministry in the parish was founded in 1766 by countryman Jan Maluš, a priest in the nearby village of Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem, which the parish of Ostrožská Lhota had previously belonged to.

During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the retreating Austrian soldiers spread an epidemic of cholera into the village, which caused a death of several dozens of its inhabitants.

The present parish church dedicated to Saint James the Great was built in 1908, in place of a torn down church building from 1832, whose tower originated from the oldest known church, collapsed in 1830.

Economy[]

In 2007, a solar energy power plant was installed in Ostrožská Lhota, which in the time of its inauguration was the largest power plant of this kind in Central Europe, reaching an output of 702 kWp.

Sights[]

Statue of St. John the Baptist from 1747
Parochial church of St. James the Great from 1908 in a late baroque style

References[]

^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.
^ Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae 10

External links[]

[1] "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.

[2] Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae 10

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