HISTORY OF SLAVIČÍN AND ITS CASTLE

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 The medieval settlement of Slavičín and its surroundings

The area around Slavičín belonged to the old settlement area, which was settled in the middle ages (9th and 10th centuries). Settlement is evidenced especially by large cemetery burial from the 9th to early 11th century in the village Lipová (Starý háj), Nevšová (Mladý háj) and Rudimov (Kamenná, Gradca, Spálice) located near Slavičín. More recently, a burial ground was also found in the cadastre of Petrůvka (Nadhájí). The cairns contain both burial and skeletal funerals. In the cadastre of Slavičín are also documented middle-age buildings related to the settlement structure (Hrubé Pole, Pod Remízem), as in nearby Nevšová. The early medieval settlement of Slavičínsko was probably connected with deposits of iron ore and also with a trade route that led from the west along the Olšava River towards Vlárský pass to Pováží. The Vlárský pass represented an important link between the Moravian Margraviate and the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages, and in the first quarter of the 13th century a noble castle Brumov was built.

The area lying from the Morava River east to the Vlára River and along the Olšava River was under the administration of the Spytihněv, which was established in the 11th century and disappeared at the end of the 12th century. According to the deed of Olomouc bishop Jindřich Zdík from 1141, fourteen entire settlements and estates in the next twenty villages belonged to the Spytihněv large church. Some of them were situated near Slavičín – the village of Vasily, the village Sobnov and the village of Mladotice, which was merged with Slavičín in the 19th century. Settlements from the 12th century are also evidenced by archaeological findings from Slavičín, Nevšová or Hrádek.