Třebíč (German Trebitsch, used in German from 1850 to 1924, later
between 1940 and 1945, in Yiddish rejרייביטש (Trejbitš)), a town
with extended powers, is located in western Moravia in the
southeastern part of the Vysočina Region and is its second after
Jihlava largest city. It lies on the river Jihlava 30 km southeast
of the regional city of Jihlava and 56 km west of Brno. The altitude
of the town is between 392 m above sea level at Paleček's mill by
the river Jihlava and 503 m above sea level at the top of Strážná
hora with the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk.
Approximately
35,000 inhabitants live here, making Třebíč the 28th largest Czech
city. The beginnings of the town are connected with the founding of
a Benedictine monastery above the river Jihlava in 1101, on the site
of which today stands the Třebíč chateau. The first written mention
of the town, the deed of Abbot Martin, then dates from 1277. The
town received city rights from Margrave Charles in 1335, thanks to
which it gained the right to fortify itself with walls and moats. At
the time of its greatest expansion, Třebíč was the most important
center in Moravia after Olomouc and Brno, and the estates of the
local monastery reached almost as far as Opava. The population began
to grow only after the Second World War, along with the construction
of family houses and subsequently large prefabricated housing
estates with apartments, especially for employees of the newly built
power plant in Dukovany. Today, Třebíč is an important center of
western Moravia and the Třebíč district.
The area of Třebíč
is 57.6 km2 and the city has been divided into 17 parts since 1995,
10 of which are located directly in the city and the remaining 7 in
the vicinity. There are important monuments in the city, the Třebíč
Jewish Quarter and the Basilica of St. Procopius were inscribed on
the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003. Charles Square in the city
center is one of the largest in the Czech Republic.
The
city's website is also accessible on the Internet for people with
disabilities, such as the blind and the like. In the Golden Like of
2020 competition, the Facebook profile of the city of Třebíč took
second place in the category of cities with more than 10,000
inhabitants.
The neighboring villages of the seat are
Okřešice, Vladislav, Trnava, Kožichovice, Střítež, Petrůvky, Výčapy,
Mikulovice, Mastník, Petrovice, Krahulov, Nová Ves, Číhalín, Horní
Vilémovice and Stařeč.