Bohdalice (in German: Bochdalicz) is a village which, together with Pavlovice, forms the municipality of Bohdalice-Pavlovice in the Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region, the Czech Republic. Until 1964 they were an independent municipality. Bohdalice has over 800 inhabitants. They are located 9 km south of the town of Vyškov by the road from Vyškov to Bučovice in hilly terrain with an average altitude of 296 m above sea level. The Bohdalský Stream flows through the village, opening into the Rostěnický Stream. Since 1785, the newly founded settlement of Manerov has been a part of Bohdalice.
Bohdalice was owned by the Olomouc Jesuits for a large part of its history (1638–1773). In the village stands the parish Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, built-in 1807–1814 on the basis of probably a wooden church from the 15th century. Today's village has been part of the Větrník Microregion since 2000.
History
The oldest signs of settlement come from the late Eneolithic, from the period of Bell Beaker culture. Other finds date back to the Migration Period that are probably Lombards. This is evidenced by the discovery of two graves from this period. A wrought-iron clasp was found in one of them.
The beginnings of the village
The first written mention of the village comes from June 24, 1337, when the name of Vojtěch of Bohdalice is mentioned in period documents. Over the centuries, the owners of the estate often changed. In 1368, four owners are known: Klára of Bohdalice (widow of the Čert of Bohdalice), who left her work to Petr Hecht of Rosice. The other owners were Svoch of Milotice and Přibík of Nítkovice. After the death of the latter, the property was forfeited to Ic, a Jew from Kroměříž. The next owners who bought the estate were Hřivín of Roštítek (brother of Klára of Bohdalice), the widow of Přibík Kateřina and Martin Nosek of Načešice. In 1401, the parish church was named for the first time in the surviving documents. In 1413, one of Bohdalice's courts was bought by Ondřej of Zástřizl and Pavlovice. Since 1420, Bohdalice has been firmly connected with Pavlovice, where the Zástřizl family had a fortress. The Zástřizl family held Bohdalice and Pavlovice from 1413 until 1531.
Modern age
In 1531, after the death of Filip of Zástřizl, the court was intabulated by Mikuláš Doupovec of Doupov. In 1539 the owners were brothers Jan and Petr Doupovec, who in 1551 gave Bohdalice and Pavlovice to Jeroným Bařický of Bařice. He died in 1564 and the farm was placed in the hands of Jan Sedlnický of Choltice. In 1566, Jan Gbelský of Gbelsko sat here and then Jan Nekeš sr. of Landek. Another owner was Jan Purkart Černčický of Kácov, who sold everything to Albrecht Čertorejský of Čertorej, who was the holder until his death in 1589. In 1601, Ladislav Berka of Dubá, Ladislav of Lobkovice took turns here, and in 1614 the new owner of the court became Lukáš Dembinský of Dembina. In 1638, Lukáš's widow Eliška Dembinská sold all her property to the Olomouc Jesuits for 20,000 Moravian guldens. The farm belonged to the Jesuits until the forcible abolition of the order in 1773.
The period of industrialization
In 1788, the state administration sold Bohdalice to Rajmund of Mannerov. The heirs sold the farm in 1804 to Jan Michal Manner, who died in Bohdalice on August 7, 1842. A significant event for the village was the visit of the Russian Emperor Alexander I., who spent the night in the local castle on November 29, 1805, and the visit of Emperor Francis II. in the administrator's apartment a few days before the Battle of Austerlitz. Then Bohdalice was owned by the patriot and Czech agitator Michal Josef Manner, who made Bohdalice the focus of national revival. Since 1882 there has been a post office in Bohdalice, since 1855 a health district has been established here, including eight surrounding municipalities, and since 1894 there has been a gendarmerie station. In the period around 1848, the center of the national movement around the knight Manner and the local chaplain Škorpík was created in Bohdalice. The main focus of this movement was agitation against the election to Frankfurt.