Elite historians will head to Znojmo. They will remind Vladislav Jindřich | Znojmo | From the region of | Brno Gossip
At the end of the summer holidays, a number of important Czech and foreign historians will come to Znojmo. The city management is preparing a conference to commemorate the personality of Vladislav Jindřich, who was the younger brother of King Přemysl Otakar I and the first Moravian margrave. This year marks 800 years since his death. The lecturers’ contributions will thus concern the transformation of Moravia from a princely state to a margrave state, said Znojma spokeswoman Simona Chmelíková.
The conference takes place on August 31 and September 1 in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in the renovated Louka center on the grounds of the former Premonstratensian Louka monastery. Its goal is to bring the half-forgotten Moravian margrave Vladislav Jindřich closer to us. “He created the prerequisites for the establishment of a provincial municipality and, thanks to his wife Heilwida from Trnava, developed cooperation with the neighboring Austrian duchy. During his reign, the first cities were established in Moravia, and it is quite possible that Vladislav Jindřich took the first steps towards founding the city of Znojmo.“, said the historian and representative of Znojmo George Kacetl (For Znojmo). The professional content of the conference is provided by Martin Wihodou from Masaryk University, who is also the author of a three-year-old monograph on the margrave and deals with the early medieval history of Moravia.
Vladislav Jindřich from Znojmo Castle ruled Moravia for the first two decades of the 13th century, i.e. at a time when Znojmo was still a more important seat than Brno. In 1226, King Přemysl Otakar I elevated the local settlement, which was established near the former prince’s castle, to a royal city. In South Moravia, Znojm received the same privileges as in the first and experienced great prosperity in that and the following century. however, the settlement of Znojmo itself as a promontory above the Dyjí is significantly older than 800 years.
In addition to Kacetl and Wihoda, for example, the Prague historian Jan Klápště, the Brno historian Libor Jan, from the Austrian St. Roman Zehetmayer will come to Pölten to lecture, Philipp Wollmann from Munich. The first day’s program will end with a funeral mass for Vladislav Jindřich in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Wenceslas.