Brno-Královo Pole
Brno-Královo Pole is a city district of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic. It is made up of the cadastral territories of Královo Pole, Ponava and Sadová, as well as the northwestern corner of Černá Pole. The municipal district was established on November 24, 1990. It has about 30,000 inhabitants.
Formerly a village, it was annexed into Brno in 1919. A post office was opened 30 November 1868. For the purposes of the senate elections, the territory of the district is included in electoral district number 60 of Brno-City District.
History
Until the first half of the 19th century, Královo Pole was a settlement, in 1844 it was promoted to a town. In 1869, the first horse-drawn carriage railway was put into operation in Královo Pole, and in 1890, the Královo Pole Engineering Works were founded. It was the establishment of engineering factories that contributed to rapid industrialization and promotion to a city in 1905. A major moment in the development of the town was the annexation of Královo Pole into Brno in 1919. Municipal schools also began to emerge rapidly, when the Slovanské náměstí 2 primary school was founded in 1913, and in 1920 across the park Gymnázium Slovanské náměstí 7.At the end of the 1960s, during the second cadastral reform of Brno, in the territory of today's Brno-Královo Pole district, there were significant changes in the borders cadastral territories, which apply to the present day.