[3] Another notable body of water is Janičův vrch, a flooded former sandstone quarry, which is protected as a nature monument and occasionally used for swimming.

[5] It is a deed, issued by the Přemyslid margrave Ottokar II, who granted a castle and the surrounding area to the Austrian noble Henry I of Liechtenstein.

[5] In 1526, the Anabaptist leader Balthasar Hubmaier came from Switzerland to Mikulov, where he was captured and arrested by the forces of King Ferdinand I the following year.

[7] In 1621, during the Thirty Years' War, Franz von Dietrichstein signed the Treaty of Nikolsburg with the Transylvanian prince Gabriel Bethlen at Mikulov Castle.

Mikulov Castle became the place for many political meetings of important personalities, e.g. Albrecht von Wallenstein, Emperor Ferdinand II and Napoleon.

[9] Following World War II, the town's German population was expelled by the Czechoslovak government, according to the Beneš decrees.

Additional settlers were brought after the expulsion of the Jews from the Moravian royal boroughs by King Ladislaus the Posthumous after 1454.

[10] The settlement grew in importance, and in the first half of the 16th century, Nikolsburg became the seat of the regional rabbi of Moravia, thus becoming a cultural centre of Moravian Jewry.

The census decreed by Empress Maria Theresa in 1754 ascertained that there were some 620 families established in Nikolsburg (i.e. the Jewish population of about 3000 comprised half of the town's inhabitants).

The congregation suffered severely during the Silesian Wars between 1740 and 1763, when they had to furnish the monarchy with their share in the supertaxes exacted by the government of Maria Theresa from the Jews of Moravia.

[12] Quite a number of Nikolsburg Jews continued to earn their livelihood in Vienna, where they were permitted to stay for some time on special passports.

The Jewish settlement in Nikolsbgurg ceased to exist during World War II, as only 110 managed to emigrate in time, and 327 of Mikulov's Jews did not survive the Holocaust.

[13] Mikulov is a centre of Czech wine-making due to its favorable geographic location and climate, as well as its unique history.

[16] Twelve registered cadastral vineyard tracts are situated within the Mikulov wine village as defined under the Czech Viticulture Act.

[17] The largest employer with headquarters in Mikulov is Gebauer a Griller Kabeltechnik, a manufacturer of electric wires and cables.

The second notable industrial company is Copeland Czech, a manufacturer of piston compressors and condensing units with more than 250 employees.