• Area: 2506 ha
  
• Populatuon: 2500
  
• Altitude: 208 amsl
  

The town lies in the undulating terrain of the western part of Hodonín District, run through by the Prušánka river and surrounded by vineyards on three sides.

It si best known for its winegrowing. Documented since the 13th century, when the knight templars started growing grapevines here. This order gained control of the village apparently before 1240, but the first written mention about the village comes from 1248. At the local, built by the templars fortress commander Ekko often stayed. After the abolishment of the order in 1309, the most powerfull czech nobleman Jindřich of Lipá seized power over the village. Then after him,there was a rapid succesion of control of the village by the houses of Kunštát, Šternberk, Zástřizl, Lomnice and Prusinovských of Víckov.

In 1624 Čejkovice received another order, this time Jesuitical, and during its administration it reached the peak in local vinegrowing. However this was a period when the town suffered from the consequences of the Thirty years War, the Turkish raid in 1663 and the hungarian kuruc in 1705, which almost burnt down the whole town. After the abolition of the Journeymen of Jesus in the Czech lands the local property passed to an education fund , which had become the economic base for future educational reforms. In 1785 Emperor Joseph II. visited Čejkovice and there has been a rumour abroad that the mayor at the time convinced him to abolish his unpopular regulation of burial in the canvas.

From the events held here we may recall the presentations of local wineries; which is called Čejkovice Wine Market (May), the traditional garb feast (August), Mountain driving (September) or the well-known athletic competition Cejkovice´s lath (March).

From organizations and associations we can draw attention to the brass music of the band Vinařinka and the youth brass band music Mutěňané - Čejkovjané, and the children´s ethnographic group Iskérka, male choir Révokaz , and especially the folklore group Zavadka; from sports clubs AC Čejkovice.

There is a wide range of monuments in the village. First of all you can visit a formerly medieval fortress which was transformed at the beginning of the 18th century to a castle. Prismatic tower is the dominating feature as well as the Jesuit´s chapel which is used as ceremonial hall today, or castle wine gallery offering local winery products. The underground cellars of massive dimensions, where knight on horse back could ride through,are beeing used for the storage and maturation of wines under the name Templar´s cellars. Part of the castle building is currently used as a hotel.The Church of Sts. Kunhuty was also founded in the 13th century, it was burnt down several times, during the 18th and 19 century and finally converted into its present form. You can also organise a sightseeing tour of a small exposition focused on life of T.G.Masaryk in the house, where he spent part of his childhood. In the vicinity of the castle is located a historically protected baroque granary, by the durch there is a parsonage from the second part of the 18th century, and folk architecture as farmstead no.25 and 77. There are also protected natural areas such as steppe sites Čejkovické Špidláky on the list.

Infl uential natives of the Čejkovice, by the way, are the theology professor, writer and philosopher Dominik Pecka, journalist, poet and writer Svatopluk Wurm Čejkovský the canon, Brno prelate and author of several historical documents Jakub Hodr.

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