Husovice

The name of the village was derived from the personal name Hus, which is identical to the generic hus, or "goose". The name originally sounded like Husici (written as Husicz in the oldest document from 1264), originally it was the name of the inhabitants of the village and meant "Hus's people". In written documents after 1264 there is always the ending -ovice (apparently it was taken from the names of the neighboring villages Cacovice, and Zábrdovice).^[2]

Husovice, founded in the 13th century (the first written mention is in 1264^[3]), was a small village for a long time. Originally, it was a landowner's village, whose land soon began to come into the possession of the Brno townspeople, the nobility, and the church. In the 13th century, the Zábrdovice Premonstratensian monastery acquired Husovice tithes and some land. There was probably a mill and at least two yards here already then. Husovice suffered heavily in the years 1419–1434 during the Hussite Wars and in the years 1468–1478 during the Bohemian–Hungarian War. At the beginning of the 17th century, Husovice had only 18 settled people. Husovice also suffered great damage during the Siege of Brno by the Swedes in 1643 and 1645. However, this damage was removed by the 1770s. Before the first half of the 18th century, the number of houses more than doubled in connection with the development of local industry. In 1834, Husovice burned down and was rebuilt. Around the middle of the 19th century, the village's rapid growth began, which led to the expansion of local buildings along all existing roads. Until the abolition of serfdom, the municipal administration in Husovice was headed by a burgomaster, a vogt, and two aldermen. In 1912, Husovice was elevated to a town^[3] and in 1919 it was annexed to Brno.

Husovice, which has a predominantly urban character, consists of several parts. On the one hand, it is low-lying and, with some exceptions, flat southern part with a very dense regular urban development, in which there is the local Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord, the trolleybus depot of the Public Transport Company of the City of Brno and the art nouveau building of the local Sokol in Dukelská Street, as well as several smaller shops. This part is bordered to the north by Provazníková Street, where it adjoins the area further west between Provazníková Street and Kohoutová Street, in which there are several panel houses, and also the area further east with sparser irregular buildings of the original village, which is adjacent to the higher family development on Klidná, Míčkova, Lozíbky, Nouzová and Slezákova streets. North of this part is the former workers' colony "Písečník". The northernmost part of today's Husovice is represented by multi-story apartment buildings with flat roofs on the eastern side of Soběšická Street.

The cadastral territory of Husovice is further divided into 4 basic settlement units.