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25-545: Vrahovice lies in the Upper Morava Valley . The watercourses Romže, Hloučela and Valová flow through Vrahovice. The highest point in Vrahovice is Vrbatecký kopec. The village was first mentioned in 1337. The first mention of a church in Vrahovice was in 1370. The church was destroyed in a large fire in 1587. A church constructed shortly after the fire was used until it was destroyed in 1831. A replacement church

50-601: A major part of the Vienna Basin . In the Czech Republic, several larger cities and towns lie on the Morava, particularly Olomouc , Kroměříž , Otrokovice , Uherské Hradiště , Veselí nad Moravou and Hodonín . Brno , the second largest city of the Czech Republic, lies within the river basin. As of 2009, the catchment area of the river had a population of c.  3.5 million people. Downstream of Hodonín,

75-525: A train. The village has a church, Saint Bartholomew's , dating from the 19th century. Other important local buildings include a monument to the Czechoslovak Legions , an 18th-century Roman Catholic vicarage, an 18th-century statue of Saint Florian , and a brick factory built at the beginning of the 20th century. Vrahovice has a common integrated transport system with Prostějov. Bus routes from Prostějov to Přerov and Tovačov run through

100-616: Is derived from the Morava river that forms the axis of the territory. The Upper Morava Valley is a mesoregion of the Western Outer Subcarpathia within the Outer Subcarpathia . It is a trench depression, filled with Neogene and Quaternary sediments. The lowland is further subdivided into the microregions of Holešov Plateau, Prostějov Uplands, Central Moravian Floodplain and Uničov Plateau. The area

125-707: Is one of the oldest national boundaries still extant in continental Europe: it was the eastern boundary of the Carolingian Empire with the Avar Khaganate around 800, and from the 10th century onward marked the border of the Imperial marcha orientalis , later Duchy of Austria , with the Kingdom of Hungary (within the Habsburg monarchy during 1526–1918 because of imperial expansion). During

150-552: Is poor in peaks. It is the largest real plain in the territory of the Czech Republic, in which the inclination of the slopes consistently does not exceed 1°. The highest peak is Horka (also called Šumvaldská horka) at 331 metres (1,086 ft) above sea level. The territory is elongated from north to south. The maximum length is 85 km (53 mi) and the width is almost 30 km (19 mi). The lowland has an area of 1,315 square kilometres (508 sq mi) and an average elevation of 226 metres (741 ft). The territory

175-596: Is rich in rivers. The axis of the Upper Morava Valley forms the Morava river. Many other rivers flow into it; the most important tributaries within the territory include the Bečva , Romže , Haná and Rusava. Suitable natural conditions contributed to the creation of many settlements in the Upper Morava Valley. The most populated cities and towns entirely located in the territory are Olomouc , Holešov , Uničov , Litovel , Hulín and Kojetín . Partially located in

200-615: Is still in existence. Jiří Bigas wrote a book, Vrahovice 119 , about a village in the Sudetenland after the World War II. He said he named the book Vrahovice because he knew the village from his childhood. Upper Morava Valley The Upper Morava Valley ( Czech : Hornomoravský úval ) is a lowland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic . It is located in the Olomouc and Zlín regions. Its name

225-593: The Cold War , this section of the river was part of the Iron Curtain , forming the frontier between Austria and Czechoslovakia . In July 1997, the Morava basin (especially its northern and eastern part) was affected by heavy stratiform rain, which lasted several days and caused catastrophic floods . The Morava originates in the territory of Dolní Morava in the Králický Sněžník Mountains , on

250-494: The Danube with an average discharge rate of 110 m /s (3,900 cu ft/s), collected from a drainage area of 26,658 km (10,293 sq mi), of which 20,692.4 km (7,989.4 sq mi) is in the Czech Republic. The Morava is a lowland river with a basin that consists of 51% plains ; mountains make up only seven percent of the basin while thirty five percent are considered highland. The average slope of

275-530: The Danube Delta . During the 20th century however, large tracts of the river, especially downstream from Litovel , have been regulated with the ensuing effect of loss of inundation areas (floodplains). Since the river basin is densely populated and, especially the Czech part, industrialised, the river also receives a lot of wastewater. Agriculture also contributes to spreading nitrogen and other nutrients into

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300-639: The Austrian part of the river, was already the location of a human settlement 30,000 years ago. Agriculture began to be practiced in the Morava valley approximately 7,000 years ago, and fortified settlements began to appear during the New Stone Age . The lower part of the river, downstream of the confluence with the Thaya at Hohenau an der March , which today marks the Austro-Slovakian border,

325-654: The Czech Republic and Poland and has a vaguely southward trajectory. The lower part of the river's course forms the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia and then between Austria and Slovakia. The root of the river's name, mor- , is derived from the Proto-Indo-European word for 'water', 'marsh', from which the Latin word mare arose. The suffix -ava is a Slavic form of the Proto-Germanic word ahwa , meaning 'water', 'river'. The name of

350-665: The Danube Valley and the plains of northern Europe , for animals as well as, at least historically, for humans. Its weak slope across flat plains furthermore means that the river is prone to meander and flood, creating vast floodplains . Because of these reasons, the floodplains of the Morava River are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems in Europe. Its richness in plant and animal species (some 12,000 species have been identified) ranks it second in diversity only to

375-487: The Seilern family became the last to possess the village. The first mayor of Vrahovice was Jan Frébort, who took office in 1848. The village experienced significant development during the interwar period , during the tenure of mayor Josef Stříž, when roads to Prostějov and Vrbátky and a new city hall were built. During World War II, occupying Nazi forces built an observation point on the hill above Vrahovice to monitor

400-586: The Upper Morava Valley. Morava (river) The Morava ( German : March ) is a river in Central Europe , a left tributary of the Danube . It is the main river of Moravia historical region in the Czech Republic , which derives its name from the river. The Morava originates on the Králický Sněžník mountain in the north-eastern corner of Pardubice Region , near the border between

425-469: The railway. After World War II , there was an internment camp in the village for Germans from the Prostějov region awaiting transfer to Germany . Between 1950 and 1954, and from 1973 until the present day, Vrahovice has been a part of Prostějov. Since the 1990s there have been advocates for its separation. On 9 December 2004, five people were killed in the village when a truck carrying soldiers crashed into

450-597: The river flows along a sparsely inhabited, forested border area, all the way to its outfall into the Danube, just below Devín Castle on the outskirts of the Slovak capital Bratislava . The total length of the Morava is 352 km (219 mi) , of which 269.4 km (167.4 mi) is in the Czech Republic (including the Czech-Slovak border), making it the third longest river in the Czech Republic . The Morava feeds

475-464: The river is 1.8‰ and at the confluence 4‰. The bedrock of the river basin is mostly crystalline bedrock and flysch . The Morava is unusual in that it is a European blackwater river . The longest tributary of the Morava is the Thaya , flowing in at the tripoint of the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia. The longest tributaries of the Morava are: The Morava River forms an important link between

500-470: The river was first documented as Maraha in an 892 deed. The river gave its name to the entire historical land of Moravia , yet the oldest surviving record of the land (from 822) is older than the record of the river. The German name of the Morava, March , was derived from the Slavic name. The banks of the Morava have been inhabited for a very long time. The village of Stillfried  [ de ] , on

525-776: The slope of the Králický Sněžník mountain at an elevation of 1,371 m (4,498 ft), not far from the border with Poland. The lowlands formed by the river are the Upper Morava Valley and then the Lower Morava Valley in Moravia, the Morava Field or Marchfeld in Lower Austria , and the Záhorie Lowland in Slovakia. The latter three are actually continuous parts of one large basin, forming

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550-529: The territory are Přerov , Kroměříž , Otrokovice and Šternberk . The lowland is the least forested region of the country. Forest cover is only about 7%. Most of the area is occupied by agricultural land. In the Upper Morava Valley is the informally defined Haná region, which is considered one of the most fertile parts of the Czech Republic. Most of the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area lies within

575-509: The village after important Vrahovice inhabitants, including Josef Stříž, František Kopečný and Zdeněk Tylšar , and has created a new park, the Arboretum Vrahovice . There are no professional sports teams in Vrahovice. In 1930, a football team, SK Vrahovice, was established, but after the 1948 communist coup d'état , the team was banned. Its players became members of another voluntary football association, Sokol Vrahovice, which

600-456: The village. Vrahovice is located on the train route from Nezamyslice to Olomouc. The village train station was built in 1946. The village has a primary school dating back to the 19th century. Vrahovice is home to a Sokol branch , a volunteer fire department , and Spolek za staré Vrahovice, an association dedicated to local history research, environmental protection, and the promotion of the village. The association has renamed several streets in

625-508: Was built between 1831 and 1836 and financed by Jan Josef Count Seilern , the owner of the Kralice domain. A village by the name of Trpenovice (now known as Trpinky), with a written history dating back to 1349, was combined with Vrahovice in 1466. From 1960 to 1973, Vrahovice also included the village of Čechůvky . Through its history, Vrahovice has passed through the hands of several owners. In 1725, Jan Bedrich Seilern bought Vrahovice, and

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