Hradiště sv. Hypolita

The rotunda came to light in 2021, when archaeologists digging under the church floor found a circular structure with an apse, about 13.5 metres across and dated to the mid-11th century, buried two metres down. Around it lay a dense cemetery whose graves later yielded a 13th-century gold cross beside older Great Moravian burials. Before any of that, the fortress here was Great Moravia's own, walled with a timber-and-clay rampart up to 7 metres high on a stone base. It was violently destroyed in the mid-10th century, after which Znojmo grew up across the stream and took over its role, leaving this hilltop to the church. King Vaclav I gave the site to the Knights of the Red Star in 1240, who founded a monastery and provostship that still holds the church today. The building standing now is 18th-century Baroque-Classical, raised after the Thirty Years' War over an earlier Gothic church that had itself replaced the rotunda.