Nový Jičín (in German: Neutitschein ) is a chief town of Moravie located on the road which connects Olomouc to Ostrava.

History

One dates the foundation from the city in 1313 when the king Jean Ier of Bohemia granted to the borough of Nový Jičín (invited thus to distinguish it from the strong castle of Starý Jičín, not far) a civic charter which enabled him to perceive the granting.

With the Rebirth, the city enriched by the textile industry developed by the Protestant middle-class, repurchases with the lords of Žerotín his feudal independence and becomes free city. It thereafter is affected hard by the Guerre Thirty Year old (set fire to by the imperial catholic armies in 1621) then by an epidemic of plague in 1623. It loses its independence then and, within the framework of the Counter-Reformation, passes under the administration about the Jésuites of Olomouc until the dissolution of this kind in 1773.

In 1775, the queen of Bohemia Marie-Therese I {{Re}}, grants the free statute of city to him.

At the 19th century, the city lodges an important manufacture of the tobaccos which employs 2500 workmen.

The population, in German majority, is in favor LED' Irrédentisme with Austria at the time of the creation of the Czechoslovakia in 1918. The city is attached to Reich following the Accords of Munich between 1938 and 1945. Post-war period, German is expelled following the Décrets Beneš and the reduced population of the two-thirds.

In 1967, the center town is declared zone historical protected.

Personalities

• Gregor Mendel, father of the genetics, is born not far from the city
• Anton Kolig, painter Austrian

Twinning

• Świętochłowice Poland
• Vénissieux France
• Épinal France

See too

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