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The story
The first written mention of Moravany is from 1244, when there already was a stronghold with a small settlement around it. In the 16th and 17th century there were many ponds but they were later dried during the German colonisation and during the reign of Joseph II in 1782 they were turned into arable and given to settlers, mainly to the German ones.
In 1806 the Crown Prince passed through Moravany, later known as the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. The settlers solicited designation of a priest and the building of a rectory although the foundation of a new church had been laid down in 1782 after the old one had burned to the ground. The rectory was then built in 1808. There were two bells in the steeple until the 1816 when one of them was taken away for military purposes. The church as it stands now was built in the 1920s in the place of the burned church.
The railway was built in 1845.
From Wikipedia’s article on Moravany (Pardubice District), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5