Archaeology and history of Brno (Brünn) – Podolí
The most ancient finds from the area are of Paleolithic Age. It's surface finds of chipped stone industry found in the northwestern vicinity of Podolí at Brno – Líšeň, manufactured in the Early Upper Paleolithic (40 000 BP) with the levallois technique. It belongs to the bohunician culture, named after another well-known site in Brünn - Bohunice.
Of importance are also Eneolithic finds from the neighboring district-area of Šlapanice, where a large Bell-Beaker burial-ground was excavated in the eighties. The most famous finds come, however, from the Bronze age, namely the urn-burial ground of Podolí, after which the younger phase (1000 – 800 BC) of the Middle Danubian Urnfield culture was named (the Podolí phase). The graves contained above all pottery, sometimes also bronze needles, fibulae and pincers.
The oldest written record of Podolí is a bulla from the pope Gregory IX. (1227-1241) dating to 1237. In 1805, Podolí formed a part of the battlefield in the battle of Austerlitz where the emperor Napoleon I destroyed the Russo-Austrian army.
The deployment of Allied (red) and French (blue) troops at the battle of Austerlitz, the fortnight of the battle. The village of Podolí (Kritschen) is marked by the red arrow (source: www.wikipedia.org).