Brněnec

Brněnec (German: Brünnlitz) is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,400 inhabitants. Villages Chrastová Lhota, Moravská Chrastová and Podlesí are administrative parts of Brněnec. Next to an old trade route, the settlement of Moravská Chrastová was founded after 1200 by monks from a monastery in Litomyšl. It is first mentioned in a document from 1323. The first written mention of Brněnec is to be found in the 1557 act of partition of the dominion of Swojanow. In 1892, workers carrying out improvements to the Bělá nad Svitavou road stumbled upon the remnants of prehistoric clay jars in the vicinity of the Nová Amerika ("New America") inn, one kilometre west of Brněnec. Systematic excavation on this site...