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Brno-sever
Brno-sever (lit. 'Brno-North') is one of the 29 city districts of Brno, Czech Republic, located in the north side of the city. It is made up of the municipal parts and cadastral territories of Husovice, Lesná and Soběšice and parts of Černá Pole and Zábrdovice. The total area is 12.24 km². The city district was established on November 24, 1990, and its office is located in Zábrdovice. For the purposes of the senate elections, Brno-sever is included in electoral district number 60 of the Brno-City District. History Urban development The oldest parts of Brno-sever are the former villages of Husovice, Soběšice and Zábrdovice, whose development dates back to the Middle Ages. The suburban villa and residential development of Černá Pole was created only during the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the "New Husovice" around the Republic Square. In the interwar period, workers' quarters also grew up here, both planned (e.g. semi-detached houses on Míčková street acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of Brno
The city of Brno is divided into 29 city districts, which are further subdivided into 48 cadastral territories. Map City districts Cadastral territories References {{Reflist Brno-City District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zábrdovice
Zábrdovice () is a cadastral territory northeast of the center of the city of Brno, Czech Republic. It has an area of 1.64 km². Originally an independent village, it was annexed to Brno in 1850. Since November 24, 1990, the territory of Zábrdovice has been divided between the city districts of Brno-střed and Brno-Židenice, and since May 1, 1998, also between Brno-sever. Over 12,000 people live here. Etymology The name of its inhabitants ''zabrdovici'' was transferred to the settlement - "people (living) behind the hill, i.e. behind the hill". Perhaps the inhabitants of Staré Brno could have given the designation, and that hill could have been Petrov. History Zábrdovice itself was originally a village annexed to Brno on July 6, 1850. In the immediate vicinity of the original Zábrdovice, the small village of Radlas has existed since the Middle Ages on the original and current Zábrdovice cadastral territory. Zábrdovice itself consisted of two village settlements, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Černá Pole
Černá Pole (, Hantec: Blekfild, lit. 'Black Fields') is a municipal part and cadastral territory of Brno, Czech Republic, located in the central part of the city. It has an area of 2.46 km2. The territory of modern Černá Pole was gradually annexed to Brno in parts in 1850, 1912 and 1919. Since 24 November 1990, Černá Pole has been divided between the city districts of Brno-sever (most of the territory), Brno-střed (south-western part with Lužánky park) and Brno-Královo Pole (a small part in the northwest). Over 20,000 people live here. History According to the color of the soil, this area was called Černá pole (meaning black fields in Czech), later identical to the current name Černá Pole. If we leave aside the development of Lidická streets (emerging since the 13th century) and the area around Kapitána Jaroš and 28. Října Square (which form a separate entity from an urban planning point of view), the development of the residential district on the plateau a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husovice
Husovice () is a municipal part and cadastral territory in Brno-sever, a city district of the city of Brno, Czech Republic. It has an area of 1.32 km2. Originally an independent city, it was annexed to Brno in 1919, since November 24, 1990, it has been part of the city district of Brno-sever. Almost 7,000 people live here. The Husovice development is located on the western bank of the river Svitava. Name The name of the village was derived from the personal name Hus, which is identical to the generic hus, or "goose". The name originally sounded like ''Husici'' (written as Husicz in the oldest document from 1264), originally it was the name of the inhabitants of the village and meant "Hus's people". In written documents after 1264 there is always the ending -ovice (apparently it was taken from the names of the neighboring villages Cacovice, and Zábrdovice). History Husovice, founded in the 13th century (the first written mention is in 1264), was a small village for a long tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesná (Brno)
Lesná is a cadastral territory of Brno, Czech Republic, located in the northeastern part of the city. It has an area of 2.58 km2. The area of the today's Lesná, then still practically undeveloped, was annexed to Brno as part of the creation of Greater Brno in 1919, and since November 24, 1990 has been part of the city district of Brno-sever. Almost 16,000 people live here, which is about a third of the population of the district. Although most of the district consists of housing estates (paneláks), there are also family houses. The housing estate here, which was built during the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, is known as the most urbanistically successful housing estate in Brno. Thanks to the local greenery, proximity to the forest and relatively good accessibility, this district ranks among the most attractive parts of Brno and is compared to the Finnish Tapiola district near Helsinki. Neighboring cadastral territories are Sadová in the northwest, Soběšice in the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 100 largest cities of the European Union. The Brno metropolitan area has approximately 730,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Judiciary of the Czech Republic, Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Restituta Kafka
Maria Restituta Kafka (1 May 1894 – 30 March 1943) was an Austrian nurse of Czech descent and religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Sorores Franciscanae a Caritate Christiana). Executed by the government in Nazi-run Austria, she is honoured as a virgin and martyr in the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1998. Life Early life She was born Helene Kafka in Husovice near Brno on 1 May 1894, the sixth daughter of Anton Kafka, a shoemaker, and his wife, Maria Stehlík. When she was two years old, her family moved to the Brigittenau neighbourhood of Vienna, the imperial capital, and home to a Czech migrant community, where she grew up. As a young girl, she worked first as a housemaid and then as a salesgirl in a tobacco shop. In 1913 she became a nurse at the municipal hospital in the Lainz neighborhood of the city. While working as a nurse, Kafka met members of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity () and entered their congrega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity". To be selected, a World Heritage Site is nominated by its host country and determined by the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee to be a unique landmark which is geographically and historically identifiable, having a special cultural or physical significance, and to be under a sufficient system of legal protection. World Heritage Sites might be ancient ruins or historical structures, buildings, cities, deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains or wilderness areas, and others. A World Heritage Site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humankind and serve as evidence of humanity's intellectual history on the planet, or it might be a place of grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Czech Census
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The 2021 Census of the Czech Republic took place between 27 March and 9 April 2021. It was conducted by the Czech Statistical Office at a cost estimated to be 2.23 billion Czech koruna. Failure to complete the census could lead to a fine of 10,000 Czech koruna. Preliminary results Preliminary results were released in January 2022. The national population was 10.52 million, which represented an increase of approximately 90,000 from the previous census in 2011. At the same time, the average age was reported at 42.7 years, an increase of 1.7 years in the last ten years. References External links * Censuses in the Czech Republic Census Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Královo Pole
Královo Pole (German: ''Königsfeld'', in English meaning "King's Field") is one of the 4 municipal parts and cadastral territories of Brno-Královo Pole, a city district of Brno, Czech Republic, north from the city centre. History The first written record of Královo Pole comes from 1240, as a village (or literally a field) belonging to the king. A Carthusians, Carthusian monastery was established here in late 14th century. Rapid development took place during the second half of the 19th century. It was started by the building of a sugar mill, followed by other industries, especially the ''Královopolská'' machine works. In 1885, Královo Pole was connected to the railway. In 1905 the settlement became a town (city). Soon after the World War I it became a part of Brno. While the oldest part of Královo Pole down at the Ponávka brook retained its village look, the newly built-up area on a slope ascending westwards developed a cohesive urbanistic structure centered in the Slov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat () is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was built between 1928 and 1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, of the wealthy and influential Jewish Czech Tugendhat family. Of reinforced concrete,Courland, Robert. ''Concrete Planet''. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY. (2012) p. 326. the villa soon became an icon of modernism. Famous for its revolutionary use of space and industrial building materials, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001. Design The free-standing three-story villa is on a slope and faces the south-west. The second story (the ground floor) consists of the main living and social areas with the conservatory, the terrace, the kitchen and servants' rooms. The third story (the first floor) has the main entrance from the street with a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Czech Census
The 2011 Census of the Czech Republic was conducted by the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) in 2011 in accordance with Regulation no. 763/2008 of the European Parliament and Council which states that censuses must be carried out in all Member States once every ten years starting in 2011 with more frequent censuses decided by the European Commission. The Parliament of Czech Republic passed Act no. 296/2009, requiring that a Census be conducted in early 2011. The act obligating participation and precise completion of the census would only be applicable to the 2011 Census, not other censuses that would be mandated in the future. Those who refused to partake in the census or provided false information to the Census would be fined 10,000 CZK. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek told the Chamber of Deputies that the cost of the census would be CZK 2.5 billion. Information given during the census must have been valid up to midnight Saturday, March 26, 2011 (known as the "decisive mome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
