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

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Vranov is situated at an elevation of 465 m in the Drahany Highlands of South Moravia, about 10 km north of Brno. As of 1 January 2023, the municipality has a population of 901. The cadastral district of the municipality has the name Vranov u Brna.

The first written mention of the village dates from 1365 It successively belonged to the estates of Ronovské, Novohradské and Pozořice.

The Paulaner monastery of Vranov [left, no. 4483] was founded in 1633 and is located on a hill above the village of Vranov. The early Baroque monastery church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (kostel Narození Panny Marie) was founded by Maximilian of Liechtenstein and his wife. The princely family had their ancestral castles in the South Moravian towns of Eisgrub (Lednice) and Feldsberg (Valtice) until 1945. The church was built in 1621–1630 based on designs by the Italian architect Giovanni Giacomo Tencalla and is still important as a pilgrimage church today. Below the monastery church is the family crypt of the House of Liechtenstein, in which the princes of Liechtenstein were buried until the middle of the 20th century. Extensive alterations to the church and extensions of the family crypt were made in 1740–1821. In 1960, a new family crypt was built at the cathedral of St. Florin in Vaduz.

Other glasses of this collection show views of Vranov nad Dyjí, also in South Moravia.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranov_u_Brna, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranov_(Brno-Country_District), https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranov_(okres_Brno-venkov); https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulanerkloster_Vranov; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtensteinsche_Familiengruft]