HustopeÄ?e (in Germ. Auspitz) is a town in southern Moravia of the Czech Republic with 5,956 inhabitants. The HustopeÄ?e lies in the BÅ™eclav District and is 25 km northwest of BÅ™eclav.
HustopeÄ?e is first mentioned in 1303. By the end of the 19th century, it was on the byline from Å akvice north to the Vienna-Bruno-Prague line. Until the end of the Second World War, most of its inhabitants were ethnic Germans.
The town skyline was dominated by the gothic St. Wenceslaus' church, whose 74 m high steeple collapsed in 1961. This damaged the church's stucture greatly, and in 1962 the Czechoslovk government ordered it to be torn down. A new futuristic church was built on the site of the old one between 1990 and 1994, and was designed by L. Kolka. The new St. Wenseclaus' church has a 47 m high steeple--52 m if one counts its cross.
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