Rodný dům Řehoře Mendla Homestead

Welcome to this special place. You are standing in front of the historic rural estate in Hynčice in Novojičín, which at first glance breathes old times and a peaceful atmosphere of the countryside. When you look around and look at the building in front of you, you realize that you're looking at a building whose roots go deep into the eighteenth century.

Let's go back two hundred years in the mind and imagine what this house looked like and lived. It emerged as a traditional rural estate where people worked hard and lived in close links with nature. It is in these places that the twenty-first of July of the year eighteen hundred twenty-two born a man whose name today is known to schoolchildren around the world. Johann Gregor Mendel was born here, the future founder of genetics and the discoverer of the basic laws of inheritance, who lived here for his childhood years. Imagine a little boy running around the yard watching plants and animals without knowing that he would revolutionise human knowledge with his subsequent attempts at peas.

Now pay attention to the construction itself and its exterior. The house bears the characteristics of the traditional 18th century rural architecture. Look at its facade and see the simple beauty of the old structures that resisted the tooth of time. Over the centuries, of course, there have been many human destinies. In addition to Johann Gregor Mendel himself, other personalities like Anton Mendel, Rosina Schwirtlichová or Vladimír Nippert are connected to this house, all of whom were the history of this region.

Unfortunately, this place has not always been well. In the twentieth century, the object was long decayed and threatened with total destruction. But fate wanted it different. In nineteen fifty eight, the building became a monument to the cultural monument of the Czech Republic, which was the first important step towards saving it. But the real breakthrough came at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Between two thousand and two thousand and seven years, the whole house went through a very extensive and thorough reconstruction. Thanks to this, in the year two thousand and seven it could be opened and made available to the public as a museum dedicated to this famous native. The recent history of the house closed in the year two thousand and eighteen, when the building gained a gift to its possession the village of Vražny, which now takes care of it with care.

And what is the special attraction of this place? Perhaps in the fact that in these humble rural walls, the story began of a man who could decipher the mystery of how he inherited the qualities from generation to generation. If you touch the old walls or just stand in the yard, there's a piece of the world's scientific history breathing down on you, which started so commonly here in Hynčice.

We hope you enjoyed the tour of the outdoor area and the atmosphere of this place. We now invite you to explore further the surroundings, to visit the museum itself inside, where you will learn even more details about the life and work of Johann Gregor Mendel, and thank you for choosing this memorable place for your trip today. Goodbye.