- Area: 2341 ha
- Population: 2580
- Altitude: 190 asml
Most of the cadastre of the one of the largest Slovácko municipalities is formed with intensively agricultural landscape with dominant arable land. We can also find here the narrow strip of alluvial forests of the Morava river and fertile vineyards. The local area was settled in prehistoric times, as evidenced by the archeological fi nds of the ceramic and culture of people belonging to the Bronze Age. There was a Velehrad´s monastery colonization settlement during the Middle Age called Walterstoph (the fi rst written mention came from the year 1261) and shortly afterwards Waltersdorf. Like many other border villages, it paid off its position, after many Hungarian war raids was beeing destroyed and established again. Since the year 1384, it was known as Noveville (Nová Ves), the Moravian atribute was admitted in the year 1911. From the major owners of the village may be stated, except already mentioned Velehrad ´s monastery, the Lords of Žerotín (since the year 1528) and the Lords of Liechtenstein. During their control there was an unsuccessful underling rebellion in 1738 in the part of Podluží, and its center was right in Nová Ves. The village was promoted to a town in 1807 and three markets were allowed.
Since the beginning of the 20th century the purely agricultural village started to transform to mostly industrial, in which grew a number of new businesses. But despite this fact it continued to keep the great importance of wine-growing. After all, there is still 160 hectares of vineyards and more than 170 wine cellars , where you can taste wide range of varieties of gold and rubin wines of excellence quality! The really lively folklore life is kept here. With the beauty of local garb, beautiful songs and typical dance you can experience every year the feasts like Day of open wine-cellars in July, St. Jacob´s Feast held in the last Sunday of July, the ceremonial September vine tasting, Rite wine celebration held on December 26th or garb feast held last Saturday in January. The Craft Day (1st of May)got its reputation as well.
The Slovácko´s club, male and female choir, children´s folklore ensemble Jatelinka, wine club band, sports club and others still work here.
The monuments are represented by St. James church from 1773, in front of it there are sculptures of St. Wenceslas and St. Florian from the fi rst half of the 18th century. Other saints, whose plastics you can see in Moravská Nová Ves are St. Jan Nepomucký and St. Anna; worth visit is also local cemetry, where the gravestone sculpture made by Franta Úprka are. And finally, look to the open nature: In the sunshine, vibrate air, there is a way to to the alluvial forests full of fauna and flora, of the beautiful lakes…
We should not forget to mention the well known locals connected to the village. For all you can remember at least a lawyer and secretary of the Confederation of Industrialists Slovak Republic at the premunich time, Josef Maděřič, for who was created above mentioned gravestone in the local cemetery.
