Vícemilice is a village and municipal part of
Bučovice
Bučovice (; ) is a town in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,900 inhabitants.
Administrative division
Bučovice consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 cens ...
in
Vyškov District
Vyškov District () is a Okres, district in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Vyškov.
Administrative division
Vyškov District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities with ext ...
in the
South Moravian Region
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of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 800 inhabitants. It is located on the right bank of the
Litava river.
Name
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the most common name for the village was Vícemilice; then, and especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, the common form was Vicomělice. After 1918, there was a return to the previously used Vícemilice.
History
The first mention is from 1349, when Jaroš and Kojata of Vícemilice are named after the village. Under the ownership of Bernard Ant. Brabanský of Chobřany, around 1700, the Vícemilice chateau was built, later modified in the
Baroque
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style. In 1798, the estate was purchased by
Aloys I of Liechtenstein. The chateau was demolished in 2020 and 99 new residential units were built in its place in a development project.
Demographics
Nature conservation
The constructed reservoirs with a biocenter are located in Vícemilice. They are located in the area of the original, long-extinct pond southwest of Vícemilice. They make maximum use of the space between the Litava river and the location of the planned railway relocation.
The cascade of two reservoirs is designed to be independently dischargeable. The ponds have an extensive coastal zone and are supplied by the Litava, which is equipped with a pool for settling sediments from the river.
The reservoirs have the ability to retain a significant volume of water during extraordinary flows in the Litava.
Sights
Baroque statue of
John of Nepomuk
John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (; ; ) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393)
was a saint of Bohemia (a western part of what is now the Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts st ...
from the mid-18th century was stolen around 2000. For the feast in May 2002, a new one was erected and consecrated on the original pedestal – the author is a local native, sculptor-carver Josef Staněk Jr.
References
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Villages in Vyškov District