{"id":181,"date":"2008-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/2008\/11\/21\/austerlitz-2008-press-release\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:18:32","slug":"austerlitz-2008-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/austerlitz-2008-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerlitz 2008 – press release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The town of Slavkov u Brna (Austerlitz), communes of Tvarozna (Bosenitz) and Prace (Pratzen)
\nand the Central European Napoleonic Society organize within the Project Austerlitz
\nand with an important financial support of the South moravian Region the event of Austerlitz 2008.<\/p>\n

Under the auspices of the 1st vice-governor of the South moravian region, Mr. Milan Venclik<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

About 1000 re-enactors from many european countries (Czech rep., Poland, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary) will participate at the event of Austerlitz 2008 whose main points of program are: the battle re-enactment under the Santon hill, that begins at 15:00 on saturday, and the sunday’s act of piety at the Peace monument at noon. Other program will take place in many communes of the battlefield. This year the battle re-enactment ends at dusk, which will offer and interesting view of fires and effects, the end of the battle will certainly have an interesting atmosphere.<\/p>\n

\nDuring 11 events since 1998, including the 200th anniversary in 2005, about 12,000 of participants came to Austerlitz from dozens of countries of Europe, over 500 horses, more than 100,000 visitors, the troops have used almost 5 tons of black gunpowder; the commemorative events of Austerlitz are, among the large events taking place regulary, organized since the longest time, and they are the only ones being organized in winter. Austerlitz, Slavkov, the battlefield and the entire region became known to the wide european and world public.<\/div>\n

Program of the commemorative events:<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday 28 november 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

17:30… Zuran \u2013 Fires of Girzikowitz
\n18:00… Jirikovice \u2013 Fires of Girzikowitz
\n18:00\u201322:00… Tvarozna – military camp – camplife of the troops of the early 19th century<\/p>\n

Saturday 29 november 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

07:30\u201308:00… Zuran hill – welcome ceremony to the Sun of Austerlitz
\n09:00\u201322:00… Slavkov u Brna… Historical market
\n10:00\u201310:30… Slavkov u Brna – parade of the french army at the square
\n11:00\u201313:30… war march from Mokra to Tvarozna, maneuvres
\n12:00\u201316:00… visits of the Austerlitz castle expositions with guides in costumes
\n15:00\u201316:30… Tvarozna (under the Santon hill) – battle re-enactment<\/span>
\n16:30\u201316:45… Tvarozna – solemn defile
\n17:00\u201318:30… visits of the Austerlitz castle underground expositions with guides in costumes
\n19:00\u201320:00… Slavkov u Brna – defile, parade at the square and fireworks<\/p>\n

Sunday 30 nov. 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

08:00\u201311:00 \u0160lapanice… militaria flea market
\n09:00\u201310:30… Slavkov u Brna – musket fire competition
\n10:00\u201310:30… Slavkov u Brna – parade of the french army at the square
\n12:00\u201312:30… piety act at the Peace Monument<\/span><\/p>\n

whole weekend<\/span><\/p>\n

Austerlitz Castle… visits of the expositions
\nOld Post of Pozoritz… Re-enactment camp
\nK\u0159enovice… Re-enactment camp at the local pub<\/p>\n

The scenario of the re-enactment program may be changed according to the weather conditions and traffic situation in the communes, there is no entrance fee. The transport to the saturday’s battle re-enactment is possible with the Kordis<\/a> bus line 702 from Brno center (Uzka, near the Tesco store).<\/p>\n

Program changes reserved.<\/p>\n

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austerlitz.org<\/a>
\nmail: info@austerlitz.org<\/a><\/div>\n

Accreditation for journalists.<\/a><\/p>\n

We thank for the support to our general partner, Ceskomoravsky cement a.s.<\/p>\n

and partners, they are: SITA CZ a.s., Cement Hranice a.s., MND a.s., IRO a.s.,TZUS, Plzensky Prazdroj a.s.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the 28th till the 30th november 2008 the traditional commemorative event will take place at the occasion of the 203rd anniversary of the battle of the three emperors (2nd december 1805).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austerlitz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}