Nový Šaldorf-Sedlešovice is a municipality in

Znojmo District Znojmo District () is a district in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Znojmo. Administrative division Znojmo District is divided into two administrative districts of municipalities with extended competenc ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 1,900 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Nový Šaldorf-Sedlešovice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Nový Šaldorf (1,102) *Sedlešovice (566)

Geography

Nový Šaldorf-Sedlešovice is urbanistically fused with neighbouring

Znojmo Znojmo (; ) is a town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 34,000 inhabitants. Znojmo is the historical and cultural centre of southwestern Moravia and the second most populated town in the South Moravian Region. The hi ...

and is located about southwest of

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 lies mostly in the

Jevišovice Uplands Jevišovice () is a town in Znojmo District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urb ...

, the southern part of the municipal territory lies in the

Dyje–Svratka Valley The Dyje–Svratka Valley () is a valley and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the South Moravian Region. Its name is derived from the rivers Thaya (Dyje) and Svratka. Geomorphology The Dyje–Svratka Valley ...

. The highest point is the hill Kraví hora at above sea level. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the

Thaya The Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a right tributary of the Morava (river), Morava River. It flows through the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic and through Lower Austria in Austria. It is formed by the conflue ...

River, which separates it from Znojmo.

History

The first written mention of Sedlešovice is from 1190. Nový Šaldorf was founded around 1580, and first mentioned in 1656. Until 1960, the two villages formed two separate municipalities. Between 1961 and 1976, Sedlešovice was a municipal part of the Nový Šaldorf municipality. Between 1976 and 1991, Nový Šaldorf and Sedlešovice were municipal parts of

. They separated on 1 January 1992 and made the current municipality.

Demographics

Transport

Nový Šaldorf-Sedlešovice is located on the railway line heading from Znojmo to

Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Wiener Neustadt, in the federal state of Lower Austria, south of Vienna. With over 700 trains and 25,000 passengers each day, the station is the busiest in Lower Austria. An important stop on b ...

in Austria. The municipality is served by the train station called Znojmo-Nový Šaldorf.

Sights

There are no significant monuments in the municipality. Among the protected cultural monuments are a late Gothic calvary from 1525 and two niche chapels. A landmark is a chapel in the centre of Nový Šaldorf.

Notable people

Franz Krückl Franz Xaver Krückl, occasionally also Franz Krückel or Franz Krükl, (10 November 1841 – 12 January 1899) was an Austrian operatic baritone, stage actor, composer and music educator of Moravian origin. Life Krückl was born on 10 November 1 ...

(1841–1899), Austrian operatic baritone

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Novy Saldorf Sedlesovice Villages in Znojmo District