Prostějov

Prostějov lies on the Romže in the Upper Morava valley. First recorded in 1141, the settlement became a market town in 1365 and a town in 1390. The lords of Kravaře joined it to their nearby Plumlov estate, and an Augustinian monastery was founded in 1391. The monastery was destroyed during the Hussite Wars before 1430; from 1454 a Jewish community lived in the town.

The Pernštejn noble family bought the estate in 1495 and began building town walls. Jan of Pernštejn added a castle to the town's defences in 1522–1526, later rebuilt in Renaissance style between 1568 and 1572. In 1599 Prostějov passed to the Liechtenstein family. The Brothers of Mercy established a monastery in the eighteenth century, followed by a Capuchin house founded in 1764 and suppressed twenty years later.