KROMERZ

German Kremsier, city, Jihomoravsk kraj (region), Czech Republic, on the Morava River, northeast of Brno. The town dates from 1110, after which it was acquired by the bishops of Olomouc. It is best known historically because the Austrian constituent assembly used it as a refuge during the Vienna revolt (184849). In Kromerz the assembly prepared the short-lived Kremsier constitution, designed to provide for the autonomy of national cultures under a liberal dynasty in Vienna. The town's historic buildings include the former summer residence of the archbishop of Olomouc (built as a Baroque castle) with archiepiscopal archives, the Gothic Church of St. Maurice (1260), and the 18th-century Piarist Church of St. John. Kromerz lies at the southern edge of the Han, a fertile agricultural region of barley, wheat, and sugar beets. In the town, generators, gasoline engines, and footware are manufactured. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 29,962.