Welcome to the information web sites of the south-moravian town Ivancice! Ivancice is a small town in Czech Republic, located about 30 km far away from the moravian capital Brno in south-west direction.

High standard accommodation in IVANCICE

UPDATE: You can find here the actuall photogallery from the st. Jacob's country fair in Ivancice 23-25.7. 2004. The pictures from this summer celebration are here. More photo galleries, you can find here.

In the czech version of these web sites, you can find the most important links leading to pages, which are connected to our town - for example companies, local governement, municipal insitutions, links of various interests. For foreign visitors we picked up the most important links leading to the official town institutions:

THE TOWN IVANCICE
The official websites of local municipality and town governement	http://www.muiv.cz
The high school - "Gymnazium Jana Blahoslava"	http://www.gjbi.cz
The institution of childern's and youth activities (Dum deti a mladeze)	http://www.ddmivancice.cz
The television of Ivancice - TIV	http://www.tiv.cz
The hospital and health centre	http://www.nspiv.cz/
The transport and mechanization middle school	http://www.sosi.zde.cz
OTHER INTERESTING LINKS
One disscussion board about Ivancice for foreign visitors and english speaking people	http://diskuze.ivancice.cz/
The photo gallery of Ivancice on MUIV.cz	http://www.muiv.cz/galerie.htm

We hope, that all these websites will offer the to their visitors english versions in nearly future.

If you are searching for some specific information about Ivancice, try send to mail to info@ivancice.cz If possible, we will try to send you back the requested information or some contact to the relevant people. You can also try to ask your questions in the discussion board, where you can find one special board for foreigners and english speaking visitors.

The former market place, which was created on the crossing of business routes and at the same time on the confluence of three rivers Oslava, Jihlava and Rokytna, was around 1212 declared a town. It had stone town walls with three gates and a moat, a Gothic castle and fortified basilica once existed there. Then hard times came to the town, it was plundered several times, the worst was in 1304 by the Hungarian Kumans. In 1424 the town was conquered by the Hussites and Ivancice became their base for the next 10 years. In contrast the most glorious time of the town dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when Ivancice became a significant centre of Unitas Fratrum. Ivancice school, generously sponsored by Karel the Elder of Zerotin, belongs to one of the most famous Czech Brothers institutions - perhaps thanks to the fact, that significant scholars worked there. One of them was the Czech humanist Jan Blahoslav, who translated from the Greek original to the Czech language The New Testament and his work is still recognised as a pearl of Czech mediaeval literature. Established in Ivancice was also the Czech Brothers printing press, later it was moved to Kralice, where in a Gothic stone fortress the Bible Kralická, the first Czech printed bible, first saw the light of day.

A dominant feature of Ivaneice is without a doubt the Gothic parish Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with high tower, finished by a unique Renaissance top with gallery. In the nearby House of the noblemen of Lipá with corner oriel and a rich architectural decoration from the 17th century is the Exhibition Hall of the Town Museum, which is a part of the Brno-Environs District Museum. The large local Jewish population (in 1791 Jews accounted for 20% of the total population) is reminded by a Synagogue from 1853 and a Jewish Cemetery with the oldest tombstone dating from 1552. Also worth mentioning is the Neo-Gothic pilgrimage chapel of St.James on the hill northeast from the town, to which leads the Way of the Cross with 14 stations. The most valuable monuments are found in the town's urban preservation zone.

Amongst the most famous Ivancice countrymen belong the Art-Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha (1860 - 1939), to the world expert public known Quido Adler (1855 - 1934), co-founder of modern musicology, and finally actor Vladimír Menšík (1929 - 1988). Displayed in the Ivancice Cultural Information Centre is a permanent exhibition of his life and work.
Southeast of Ivancice lies Reznovice and Hrubšice. In Ivaneice an "Asparagus Festival" is held each year as a reminder to the cultivating tradition of this delicacy in the region.