Pouzdřany

Pouzdřany (German: Pausram) is a township in the South Moravian Region (Jihomoravsky kraj) in the Czech Republic. It is situated 13 km in the west of Hustopeče and belongs to the Okres Břeclav.

Pouzdřany lies on the left bank of the river Svratka in the valley of Thaya-Schwarza. To the south there are the Thaya water reservoirs of Nové Mlýny. Neighbouring towns are Vranovice and Uherčice to the north, Starovice and Popice to the east, Strachotín to the south-east, Pasohlávky to the south-west, Ivaň to the west and Přibice to the north-west.

Pausram was first mentioned in 1244. Because of the lack of an heir, the town fell back to the emperor in 1556. He allowed four farmer’s markets to be held and the demand of the payment of tolls. In 1593 Pausram received a regulation for the vineyards. In the middle of the 16th century the Anabaptists settled in the town. So the parish became Protestant until during the Thirty years war all non-Catholics were expelled from the town. During the following wars against the Turks Pausram was totally burnt down and looted in 1663. In the years of 1832, 1848 and 1866 the cholera raged in three waves and caused a total of 218 victims in the town. In 1869 a railway station was built in Pausram for the railway line that had existed since 1839. In the years 1928/29 a school for the Czech minority was built. During the time between 1932 and 1935 there was big unemployment, which was provisionally overcome by emergency work like paving roads or planting trees. Parish registers have existed since 1630 and land registration since 1687.

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