The largest Moravian pond, Novoveský, is located near Nová Ves just across the municipal border.

He and his descendants focused on the economic development of the town and they began to establish ponds.

[3] After World War II, there was an internment camp in the town for ethnic Germans, as a part of the Brno death march.

The D52 motorway, which further continues as the I/52 road (part of the European route E461 from Brno to the Czech-Austrian border in Mikulov), passes through the town.

[7] Leopoldsruhe is a Baroque hunting manor house, built for Leopold of Dietrichstein in 1747.