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Area
  
22.75 km²

Municipality
  
Kojetín

Elevation
  
201 m

Local time
  
Monday 11:39 PM

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9°C, Wind N at 11 km/h, 76% Humidity

Tovačov (German: Tobitschau) is a town in the Přerov District, Moravia, in the Czech Republic, and site of a minor battle in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

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Map of 751 01 Tova%C4%8Dov, Czechia

On 16 July 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, the Prussians defeated the Austrians in the Battle of Tobitschau. The Austrians had been retreating south after their defeat at the Battle of Königgrätz on 3 July, and the fresh defeat at Tobitschau forced them to turn east instead.

People

  • Christoph Erler, organ builder, lived and died here
  • Gottfried Fritsch (c.1706, Silesia – 1750, here), a sculptor, lived and died here
  • Arnošt Förchtgott (Tovačovský), "Bohaboj" (1825, here – 1874, Vienna), a Moravian composer, conductor and singer (baritone)
  • Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz, née Zerkowitz (1852, here –1907, Karlsbad), a Jewish writer, poet, translator and fashion designer
  • Klement Slavický (1910, here –1999), composer
  • Ctibor Tobischau von Cimburg, Czech: Ctibor (II.) Tovačovský z Cimburka (c.1438, here – 1494, here), a legal scholar, a member of the Lords of Cimburg und Tobitschau, since 1469 a Governor of Moravia, and Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia (German: Oberstkanzler, 1471–9)
  • Antonín Vysloužil (1890, here – 1945), a Czech Catholic priest

    • References

    Tovačov Wikipedia
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