Bludov – Primary school of Karel the Elder from Žerotín

Since last year (2015), Bludov has been boasting of a reconstructed townhouse, i.e. the main building of the local school. Not much is known about the first school in Bludov, except that after 1657 the school was established in the house of a certain Jiří Příhoda, who ran away from his homestead.
Compulsory school attendance was introduced in the Czech lands (or throughout Austria) during the reign of the Czech (among other titles) Queen Maria Theresa. Already in…