Kojetín () is a town in

Přerov District Přerov District ( cs, okres Přerov) is a district (''okres'') within the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Přerov. List of municipalities Bělotín - Beňov - Bezuchov - Bohuslávky - Bochoř - '' Brodek ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 5,800 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

Villages of Kovalovice and Popůvky are administrative parts of Kojetín.

Geography

Kojetín is located about northeast of

Kroměříž Kroměříž (; german: Kremsier) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Kroměříž Castle with castle gardens, which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town centre with the ...

and southwest of Přerov. It lies mostly in the

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, the southern part of the municipal territory is located in the Litenčice Hills. The town is located on the right bank of the Morava River, the Haná River flows south of the town. Kojetín lies in the ethnographic region of Haná.

History

According to legends, origins of Kojetín can be traced to the times of

Samo's Empire Samo's Empire (also known as Samo's Kingdom or Samo's State) is the historiographical name for the West Slavic tribal union established by King (" Rex") Samo, which existed between 623 and 658 in Central Europe. The centre of the union was most ...

. The town is said to receive its name after Samo's legendary son Kojata, who founded a settlement named Kojata, later Kojetín. In fact, it was probably not founded until the 12th or 13th century. The first written mention of Kojetín is from 1233. Until the

Hussite Wars The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, European monarchs loyal to the Cat ...

, Kojetín was owned by the Diocese of Prague. After the wars, it was acquired by Jiří of Sternberg. Until the 18th century, it was gradually owned by several aristocratic families. The town achieved the most significant development during the reign of the Pernštejn family. In 1720 it returned to the property of the Diocese of Prague.

Demographics

Sights

The most important monument and the landmark of the town is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. This Baroque church from the end of the 17th century was built on a Gothic ground plan. The former synagogue in Kojetín is one of the oldest synagogues in

Moravia Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The m ...

. The building currently serves as a prayer house for the

Czechoslovak Hussite Church The Czechoslovak Hussite Church ( cs, Církev československá husitská, ''CČSH'' or ''CČH'') is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia. Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and ...

. There is also a Jewish cemetery, first documented after 1550.

Notable people

* Jan Tomáš Kuzník (1716–1786), composer and poet; died here * Beda Dudík (1815–1890), historian *

David Kaufmann David Kaufmann (7 June 1852 – 6 July 1899) (Hebrew: דוד קויפמן) was a Jewish-Austrian scholar born at Kojetín, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). From 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kroměříž, Moravia, where he studi ...

(1852–1899), Jewish scholar * Eduard Hedvicek (1878–1947), Austrian historic personality *

Libor Žůrek Libor Žůrek (born 2 November 1979 in Kojetín, Czechoslovakia) is Czech retired footballer. He was a striker, with his biggest asset being his speed and great acceleration which makes him among the fastest players in the league. Žůrek pl ...

(born 1979), footballer

References

External links

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Jews of Kojetín
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