Boskovice
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Boskovice (ˈboskovɪtsɛ; ) is a town in the Czech Republic
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, the most important city of Moravia
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
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Location
The town is situated in the Drahanská Highlands, about 30–40 km to the north of BrnoBrno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
, the most important city of Moravia
Moravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
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History
Boskovice was probably founded in the 11th century and received its town charter in the 14th century. It used to have one of the largest Jewish communities in Moravia.Monuments
- Ruin of a 13th century GothicGothic architectureGothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
castle - St. Jacob´sSaint James the GreatJames, son of Zebedee was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle...
church - The Empire ChateauChâteauA château is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions...
- The Jewish cemetery of Boskovice which belongs to the largest ones in the Czech Republic, founded in the 17th century
- The Big SynagogueSynagogueA synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
Cultural activities
- Unijazz Praha - a festival held regularly every year in July
- Hradhouse FestivalHradhouse FestivalFestival Hradhouse is an annual festival of electronic dance music that takes place in Boskovice, near Brno, Czech Republic. 2007 sees the 10th anniversary of this prestigious festival which attracts top DJs from within the Czech Republic and internationally...
- a dance festival held regularly every year, usually in August Hradhouse
People
- Karel AbsolonKarel AbsolonKarel Absolon was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice.Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel...
- Josef AugustaJosef AugustaJosef Augusta was a Czechoslovak paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer.During 1921 to 1925 Augusta studied at the university in Brno...
- Hirsch Bär FasselHirsch Bär FasselHirsch Bär Fassel was an influential rabbi and philosopher who pioneered Reform Judaism in modern-day Austria. He was born in Boskowitz. His book Mozene Zedek, a manual for rabbis on Talmudic decisions on practical matters, urged other rabbis to be lenient in making rulings against individuals in...
- Josef KoudelkaJosef KoudelkaJosef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
- Moses SoferMoses SoferMoses Schreiber, known to his own community and Jewish posterity as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work Chasam Sofer, , , was one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century...
- Solomon H. SonnescheinSolomon H. SonnescheinS. H. Sonneschein, Solomon H. Sonnenschein was an Hungarian-American rabbi....
- Tomáš ŠpidlíkTomás SpidlikTomáš Špidlík, SJ was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. He was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus on 22 August 1949 in Maastricht. On 21 October 2003, at the age of 83, he was created Cardinal Deacon of the titular church of Sant'Agata dei Goti...
- Hermann UngarHermann UngarHermann Ungar was a Bohemian writer and an officer in Czechoslovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His novels were influenced by expressionism and psychoanalysis...
- Hermann WassertrillingHermann WassertrillingHermann Wassertrilling, or Hebrew: Ẓebi-Hirsch ben Nathan Wassertrilling, Hirsch Wassertrilling was an Austrian Hebraist who flourished in the 19th century....
- Otakar KubínOtakar KubínOtakar Kubín, was an internationally renowned Czech painter and sculptor born in Boskovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His works are mainly associated with Impressionism. He was influenced by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and formed a friendship with Pablo Picasso. He was...