Brtnice

Brtnice (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbr̩tɲɪtsɛ]; German: Pirnitz) is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 3,700 inhabitants. The town consists of the main centre, Brtnice (2410 inhabitants), and 9 town districts named: Dolní Smrčné (90 inhabitants), Jestřebí (144 inhabitants), Komárovice (72 inhabitants), Malé (45 inhabitants), Panská Lhota (234 inhabitants), Přímělkov (125 inhabitants), Příseka (233 inhabitants), Střížov (312 inhabitants), Uhřínovice (70 inhabitants). The large ancestral and childhood house of the architect Josef Hoffmann is in the centre of the town. The architect's great-grandfather Franz Hoffmann moved into it in the 1780s. From a young age, Hoffmann spent most of the year away from the...