Ostrožská Lhota

Ostrožská Lhota (Czech pronunciation: [ˈostroʃskaː ˈlɦota]) is a village in the Uherské Hradiště District, Zlín Region, Czech Republic.

Ostrožská Lhota
Village
Ostrožská Lhota - view from the north
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Ostrožská Lhota
Location in the Czech Republic
Coordinates: 48°58′31″N 17°28′25″E
CountryCzech Republic
RegionZlín
DistrictUherské Hradiště
First mentioned1371
Government
 • MayorRoman Tuháček
Area
 • Total6.35 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Elevation
207 m (679 ft)
Population
 (2019)[1]
 • Total1,481
 • Density230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
687 23
Websitewww.ostrozskalhota.cz

History

The first written mention of the village comes from 1371, the reign of emperor Charles IV, when the Moravian margrave John Henry passed the land of Uherský Ostroh to his son John Sobieslaus.[2] At that time, the village was called Majori Lhota (Latin for Great Lhota).

In 1421, the so far Catholic parishioners had to follow the example of their master Hašek of Waldsheim and adopt the religion of the Moravian Brethren. In the Hussite Wars, they fought along with the Hussites.

In 1511, John of Kunovice bought the land of Ostroh and his house later held it until the Thirty Years' War. At that time, the village was named Ostrovská Lhota, Ostrá Lhota or Kamenná Lhota ("kamenná" means literally "stony"). In 1592, the lords of Kunovice had a first register of cottars and their property made – Registra správní panství ostrovského léta 1592 ("Administrative register of the land of Ostroh"). This register listed a total of 72 family farms. The following names were listed there and have been preserved up to the 20th century: Blahuš, Vaněk, Vlk, Pavelka, Štajnoch, Bachan, Hanáček, Válek, Hanák, Malušek.

After the Battle of White Mountain, the last lord of the land, John Bernard of Kunovice, escaped to Transylvania and his property was bought in 1625 by Gundakar of Liechtenstein, whose descendants held the village until 1918. At the change of the 16th and 17th century (in the years 1663, 1674, 1699, 1705), the village suffered attacks by the Kuruc, Turkish and Tatar peoples from the kingdom of Hungary and was repeatedly burned down.

An independent clerical ministry in the parish was founded in 1766 by countryman Jan Maluš, a priest in the nearby village of Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem, which the parish of Ostrožská Lhota had previously belonged to.

During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the retreating Austrian soldiers spread an epidemic of cholera into the village, which caused a death of several dozens of its inhabitants.

The present parish church dedicated to St. James the Greater was built in 1908, in place of a torn down church building from 1832, whose tower originated from the oldest known church, collapsed in 1830.

Present time

In 2007, a solar energy power plant was installed in Ostrožská Lhota, which in the time of its inauguration was the largest power plant of this kind in Central Europe, reaching an output of 702 kWp.

Landmarks

Notable people
  • Mons. ThDr. Antonín Šuránek (May 29, 1902 in Ostrožská Lhota – November 3, 1982 in Petřkovice) – spiritual of the priest seminary of Olomouc, Servant of God, buried in the local cemetery
  • Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, United States) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota
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References
  1. "Population of municipalities of the Czech Republic". Czech Statistical Office. 1 January 2019.
  2. Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae 10
  • Žajdlík, Pavel; et col. (2001). Ostrožská Lhota 1371-2001. Ostrožská Lhota: Obecní úřad Ostrožská Lhota. pp. 64 s. il. (some colorful), maps 21 cm. ISBN 80-238-9937-6.
  • Village of Ostrožská Lhota (1930–1997). Obecní kronika. Ostrožská Lhota: Obecní úřad Ostrožská Lhota.
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