Strassnitz

(now Straznice)

Moravia, Czech Republic


1604

Twelve-year-old John Amos Comenius arrived from his hometown of Nivnic to live with his aunt. While here he attended a school run by the Unity of Brethren. A year later the town was burned as a result of fighting between Protestant and Catholic armies. He next went to school in Prerau.





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