Project Austerlitz

Pozořice lies outside the area of the Austerlitz battleground, but is connected geographically and historically with it. The village with an immense Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with four-sided towers and large neighbouring parish could clearly see on the north-east horizon the armies, gathering for the “Battle of Three Emperors” and moving on the Czar’s road leading from Brno to Olomouc. Therefore the village wasn’t saved from war suffering, as is proved by the statement of the priest Mikuláš Kvapil, founder of the chronicle of Pozořice parish: „…after the battle the French Army began to horrendously loot here and elsewhere, what took four days. They took horses from farmers… The door of the church was smashed in and all laundry, robes, a silver chalice and other things were stolen… The diseases, which started in November depopulated Moravia instead of the plague.“ The church with parish, the gates leading to the old cemetery and the sculpture of the Crucifixion today create a historically protected complex of Baroque structures. Pozořice lies in close proximity to the Moravian Karst and Říčky Nature Park. The village is the birthplace of the writer František Neužil, who situated the story of several of his novels just into Pozořice and its environs. Between 1910 – 1946 Josef Žalman lived here, the Czech forestry expert, the ranger and cynologist, also founder of the Czechoslovakian Rangers Union.

• Project Austerlitz
• Mohyla miru - Austerlitz
• C.E.N.S.
• Member communities
• Sponsors