TelÄ? (-Czech, German: Teltsch) is a town in southern Moravia, near Jihlava, in the Czech Republic.
It contains a castle and a long urban plaza with well-conserved Renaissance houses; since 1992 all of this has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The builder of the castle was Zachariáš of Hradec, after whom the plaza was named; his name is also related to that of the city of Jindřichův Hradec.
TelÄ? was founded in the mid-14th century; the Roman-style tower for the Holy Spirit proves that there was already a settlement there. The city walls and the Church of the Ascension of Mary are Gothic in style.
Until 1945 TelÄ? had, as did its neighbor Jihlava, a principally German-speaking population.
In 1979 Werner Herzog filmed the movie Woyzeck in TelÄ?.
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