Blekfild prohazunk - Blackfields walk

This spring's walk will take us to "Old Blackfields" - the part of Černá Pole / Schwarzfeld / Blekfild bounded roughly by Černopolní, Zemědělská, Jugoslávská and Merhautova streets. Today this is a quiet, middle-class residential neighbourhood.  But it's not always been just that, being known at various times for:

• its vineyards and brickyards 
• the country's first home for troubled youth
• its exclusiveness as the site of Brno's first elite, upper-middle class villas
• its model homes for workers
• the presence of the first allotment gardens in the Austrian monarchy
• the Czech Republic's oldest gay club
• the point of departure for the transport of Brno's Jews to the death camps in World War II
• the city's only street with two names

 The walk will reveal the fascinating stories of these and many other buildings and places in "Old Blackfields". 

link for partner web: https://www.brnoexpatcentre.eu/events/dons-walk-blackfields/ 

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