ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA	CZECH REPUBLIC
Jihomoravský kraj	South Moravia (Brno) region
Okres: Brno-venkov

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Židlochovice (in German: Seelowitz) is situated at an elevation of 190 m at the confluence of the river Litava into the river Svratka about 20 km south of the South Moravian capital, Brno. The municipality has a population of about 3,800 (2019).

The earliest written document mentioning Selowiz dates from 1237. In the 14th century it obtained the status of a market town; in 1379 it was given the 'moutain law' (horenské právo), in Moravia pertaining also to viticulture (wine growing). Throughout the following centuries the ownership of the town changed frequently, in 1743 it was sold to the princes of Dietrichstein and in 1819 finally to the duke Albert (Albrecht) of Saxe-Teschen, 6th son of Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony (King August III of Poland) and son-in-law of Maria Theresia of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor Franz I Stephan. After the end of patrimonialism Seelowitz in 1850 became a municipality and the seat of a district court, in 1873 it obtained the status of a town. Afther World War I the Habsburgs were expropriated and the castle became a summer residence of the Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. From 1949 until 1960 Židlochovice was the district town of the homonymous district (okres). In 1960 the district was merged into the current district Brno-venkov (Brno country).

Glasses no. 4657 [left] and no. 3846 [right] are noteworthy for two reasons. First, they exemplify nicely the making of glasses of this type: a transfer print was applied to a white enamel colour background, which then was coloured by hand with enamel colours. Second, the labeling of both glasses is different: glass no. 4657 [left] is labeled in German: Gruss aus Seelowitz, while glass no. 3846 [right] is labeled in Czech: Pozdrav ze Židlochovice (actually incorrect: it should read Pozdrav ze Židlochovic without the final 'e'), both meaning 'souvenir from Židlochovice'.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Židlochovice; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kasimir_von_Sachsen-Teschen]