Tasov (german: Tassau) is a municipality and village in

Žďár nad Sázavou District Žďár nad Sázavou District ( cs, okres Žďár nad Sázavou) is a district ('' okres'') within the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is the town of Žďár nad Sázavou. Landscape The district's landscape is ve ...

in the

Vysočina Region The Vysočina Region (; cs, Kraj Vysočina "Highlands Region", , ) is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located partly in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Bohemia and partly in the south-west of the hist ...

of the

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. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Geography

Tasov lies in the

Křižanov Highlands The Křižanov Highlands ( cs, Křižanovská vrchovina, german: Krischanauer Bergland) is a highland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Vysočina Region. Geomorphology The Křižanov Highlands i ...

in the valley of the stream Polomina, a tributary of the

Oslava The Oslava is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Jihlava River. It originates in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands at an elevation of 567 m and flows to Ivančice, where it enters the Jihlava River. It is 99.2 km long, and ...

. The Oslava River forms the western border of the municipal territory. The highest point of the municipality is on the northern border with an altitude of .

History

Tasov was most likely founded in the 12th century. The establishment of the settlement was connected with the nearby fortress. The first written mention of Tasov is from 1233, when the owner of Tasov became Záviš of Tasov. The village quickly developed and became a major religious centre serving parishes in nearby villages. In 1366, Tasov was first referred to as a

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

. In 1482, the Rohovský family bought a free farmstead here and becomes a prominent family in Tasov where they stayed until the mid-20th century, at which time they were forcibly evicted by the communist government. During the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

, Tasov was severely affected and about a third of the houses remained desolate. Between 1573 and 1644, Tasov was owned by Václav Berka of Dubá. In 1644, Tasov was inherited by the Fürstenberk family that greatly improved Tasov and neighbouring Budišov. In 1954, Tasov was deprived of the title of market town and has not yet asked for its restitution.

Demographics

Transport

The D1 motorway from

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

to Brno briefly passes through the northern part of the municipality.

Sights

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is the landmark of the village centre. It was built in the Baroque style in 1728–1730. The interior is richly decorated. The most valuable is the painting of

Saint Wenceslaus Wenceslaus I ( cs, Václav ; c. 907 – 28 September 935 or 929), Wenceslas I or ''Václav the Good'' was the Duke ('' kníže'') of Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his younger ...

, which was moved here from the Church of Saint Wenceslaus, which stood in Tasov until 1785. The belltower has two bells from the years 1483 and 1763. The Dub Castle, also called Tassenberg Castle, is a ruin of a Gothic Castle located in a meander of the Oslava. It was built in the 13th century. In 1551, it was already called a ruin. Hrádek is a ruin of a gothic fortress above the village. Its existence was first documented in 1390. Since 1569, it has been desolated. The Literary Monument of Vysočina was opened in 2002. It contains exhibitions dedicated to the important native, writer

Jakub Deml Jakub Deml (20 August 1878 – 10 February 1961) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer. Life Childhood and youth Jakub Deml was born in Tasov near Třebíč, Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic on 20 August 1878 as a firstborn child of a ...

and other artists connected with the region, and to the history of the village and local monuments. An architectonical monument is also the villa of Jakub Deml which replaced his original birth house. It is a modernist villa with

cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...

elements by the architect

Bohuslav Fuchs Bohuslav Fuchs (24 March 1895 in Všechovice – 18 September 1972 in Brno) was a Czech modernist architect. Life and career A mason by education, Fuchs studied with Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1916 and 1919, and ...

built in the early 1920s.

Notable people

(1878–1961), writer

References

External links

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