Two houses located in the middle of the northwestern cluster of buildings that make up part of the village.
"The village of Rozstání is located in the district of Prostějov in the Olomouc region. 611 inhabitants live here.
The local name is an old general rastaj – "to break up" derived from the verb rastati – "to break up". The village was named after its location near spreading forests or valleys.
The first written mention of the village dates from 1358, when the village was held by Ješek from Rájce and his two brothers. In 1368, they sold the village to Přibík from Křetín, and in 1390, Petr from Kravař and Plumlov acquired it and thus joined it to the Plumlov estate. It was part of the Pluml estate until 1592, when it was first mortgaged by the lords of Pernštejn and then in 1596 it was sold to Bernard Drnovské from Drnovice and became part of the Rájek estate. In 1618, Rozstání was bought by the owner of the Plumlov manor, Maxmilián of Liechtenstein, and thus added it back to this estate.
During the Second World War, the village was forcibly evicted by the German occupiers. It was included in the 3rd stage of the relocation of 33 villages of the Drahan Highlands, and a military area was established here. From March 1945 to mid-April, around 1,250 people of the Polish Holy Cross Brigade were housed in the abandoned village on their escape from the Red Army, who then went to the west of the Protectorate, where they liberated the concentration camp in Holýšov. During the existence of the Wehrmacht military training ground, many houses were destroyed, after the war the village was repopulated.
Moravia (Czech: Morava [ˈmorava]; German: Mähren) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806, a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867, and a part of Austria-Hungary from 1867 to 1918. Moravia was one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia founded in 1918. In 1928 it was merged with Czech Silesia, and then dissolved in 1948 during the abolition of the land system following the communist coup d’état.
Its area of 22,623.41 km2 is home to about 3.2 million of the Czech Republic’s 10.8 million inhabitants. The people are historically named Moravians, a subgroup of Czechs, the other group being called Bohemians. The land takes its name from the Morava river, which runs from its north to south, being its principal watercourse. Moravia’s largest city and historical capital is Brno. Before being sacked by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years’ War, Olomouc served as the Moravian capital, and it is still the seat of the Archdiocese of Olomouc. Until the expulsions after 1945, significant parts of Moravia were German speaking." – info from Wikipedia.
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Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2024-05-22 09:36:01
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