Austerlitz: Hotels and Accommodation

Castle history, historic garden art and sporting activities shape Austerlitz. You can choose between these different focal points and compare hotel offers accordingly.

Culture

The permanent exhibition “Slavkov and Europe in the Age of the Napoleonic Wars” is open to visitors in the former stables of Slavkov–Austerlitz Castle. It displays original personal belongings of Napoleon Bonaparte, including his personal sabre and a travel necessaire used by him before the Battle of Slavkov.

The castle complex includes the 15.5-hectare Slavkov u Brna Castle Park, which is one of the most significant historic gardens in Moravia. Admission to the castle park is free. Its lower section also features a six-hole training golf course.

The Austerlitz Golf Resort operates an 18-hole golf course in Slavkov u Brna. There, you can play golf all day for a small fee without membership in a golf club and without proof of a handicap. The illustrated Slavkovský Špacírek walking guide includes eleven stops and leads to the city's significant sights and monuments.

Slavkov u Brna is located on the Brno–Veselí nad Moravou railway line; the railway station is approximately 1.3 km from Slavkov–Austerlitz Castle. Koupaliště Slavkov has a 50-metre swimming pool, a non-swimmer pool and a children's pool.

History

The Slavkov u Brna urban heritage conservation zone preserves the cultural-historical, architectural, urban-planning and natural values of the originally medieval and later modern historic town centre. The illustrated Slavkovský Špacírek walking tour serves as a guide to the town's important sights and monuments.

The parish Church of the Resurrection of the Lord is a late Baroque building by Jan Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg. The town hall was built in the Renaissance style, but has a Gothic core and is considered to be practically the oldest building in the town. Panský dům is a Renaissance building with a Gothic core that was later modified in the Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Above the entrance, a Renaissance grille with plant and animal motifs as well as the coat of arms of the Kounic family has been preserved.

The Chapel of the Holy Cross at the castle was built during the final construction phase of Slavkov Castle under Václav Antonín Kounic. It closes off the south wing of the castle and extends through all above-ground floors. It is accessible as part of the “Historic Halls” castle tour.

The Cemetery Chapel of Saint John the Baptist “na Špitálce” stands on the site of a hospital built by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century; its present form dates from 1743. The Kounic family crypt, built in 1795 by Arnošt Kryštof Kounic, is located beneath the southern part of the chapel. It contains seven coffins, and in 1890 it was confirmed that the mortal remains of Chancellor Václav Antonín Kounic were among them.

The Chapel of Saint Urban is an art-historically valuable building and a distinctive landmark above Slavkov u Brna. A new Chapel of Saint Urban was built on the old foundations between 1858 and 1861. Preserved remnants of the town walls are located especially at the cemetery, near the former Clock Gate complex and by the castle gardens.

The original Kounic crypt was built in the second half of the 17th century in the southwest of the castle park for non-Catholic members of the Kounic family. The monument to the victims of the world wars consists of two slabs of deep-black granite.

Further Traces of the Town's History

Dominik Ondřej Count Kounic had a manufactory for the production of fine cloth built in Slavkov. From 1706, the Kounic manufactory produced mill cloth; production ended in 1716.

The present Neo-Romanesque synagogue stands on the site of the original Jewish synagogue. The latter has been documented since the 15th century and was demolished in 1857. Slavkovský pivovar continues the town's long brewing tradition.

Further Locality Pages

Podbřežice, Ježkovice, Rašovice, Orlovice, Hoštice-Heroltice, Hodějice, Moravské Málkovice, Otnice

To the higher-level travel overview: Vyškov District.