- Area: 5485 ha
- Population: 3742
- Altitude: 164 asml
The southernmost municipality in Moravia, the town Lanžhot,has a large cadester. The greater part is situated at the confl uence of the rivers Dyje and Morava. Here you will find regularly flooded alluvial forests and meadows - a unique and exceptionally preserved biotopes of Central European signifi cance, which size is not in the Czech Republic. The very first mention about the village dates back to 1384 in the form of Lanczhut oppido, and its german translation Landshut ( means provincial guard) refers to the former function of Lanžhot on the border of three countries – Moravia, Hungary and Austria. Many foreign and domestic troops moved through the today‘s city in the past, and the consequences for the inhabitants were often the same. Interesting is that belonging to the Lords of Lichteinstein´s municipality since 1496, did not feel the consequences of the devastating Thirty Years‘ War as much as the surrounding sites, by the way back in the 1605 after the Bočkajovci invasion it was completely burned and ruined. The hard fights took the place near the town at the end of World War Two between the 5th and the 11th of April 1945. Lanžhot as the only town in Moravian borderland did not fall to Germany, but stayed a part of the Protectorate, was the first Moravian village set free. But the price for that however was terrible – a lot of dead and injured citizens, mostly destroyed town and several hundered Soviet soldiers died. Many of them still lies in unknown graves between the Morava river and the Lanžhot.
Since the year 1900 the village was known as a township village, on the 27th of June Lanžhot gained the statue of town.
Today it is the town with extremely rich tradition of folklore and costumes, there is yet distinctive dialect widespread. You can still see several dozen pairs of local sweins and beautiful girls in folk costumes during the Lanžhot´s feasts hold here in the middle of September, accompanied by raising of forty meters tall May pole. Young people put these colourful costumes on during another feasts and ceremonies such as the Folk costume feast in January or Carnival in February. The popularity enjoys the August´s folk storytellers meeting called „O lanžhotský přegulňák“. The local male and female choir gained great reputation, the brass band called Lanžhotanka is also well known.
From monuments The Church of the Elevation of the Holy Crucifix from the year 1550 deserves your attention, but with the contribution of Prince John of Liechtenstein it was completely rebuilt in the year 1893. The statue of Soviet soldier enjoyed the heritage protection as well as the small chapel beside the road to the Kostice. You can still admire the genuine architecture with colourful entrances. The history and ethnography of the town can be found in local museum.
There is also cycle track running through the town, called Moravian trail and the Natural reserve Ranšpurk and Cahnov- Soutok, with premeaval forest can be offered as natural interest. A view of blind river arms, the deep or the hills- representing the top of sand dunes is unique experience for the lovers of nature. The area stands out as an addition, an important fading of various species of animals, plants and fungi and is registered under the Ramsar´s Convention as a wetland of international importance.
The local people are represented by the singer of folk songs Božena Šebetovská, the composers of these songs Rozalia Horakova and Vojtěch Bartoš, composer Prajka Methodius, paratrooper master Clay - Eva Antonin Bartos, government commissioner in Břeclav after 1918, Josef Lips and the Minister Counselor and author of the screenplay for the movie O děvčicu, the fi rst frame with ethnographic theme in Czech lands.
