Břeclav

Břeclav is a town of about 25,000 people in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, set on the Thaya River in the Lower Morava Valley right at the border with Austria and close to the Slovak frontier. It sits roughly 50 kilometres southeast of Brno and about 65 kilometres north of Vienna, which has made it one of the country's major railway hubs, with lines running toward Prague, Ostrava, Bratislava and Vienna. The town grew around a border castle founded by Duke Bretislav I after 1041 and was held for centuries by the Liechtenstein family; the surrounding countryside belongs to the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its former German name is Lundenburg, and its municipal parts include Poštorná and Charvátská Nová Ves.