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HISTORY AND PRESENT
The village is located in the southern part of the Boskovice furrow, about 2, 5 km south of Rosice. To the east lies the Bobrava Highlands, to the west the foothills of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. The surrounding countryside has an agricultural character. The village is situated on a hill at an altitude of 385 m and in the south and north are distant views of the countryside. Once an important and frequented road Velká Bíteš - Ivančice passes through the village. Apparently, therefore, it was a coaching inn called Kratochvilka, which is already mentioned in 1626. The name of the inn later gave the name of the village, which arose around it. The stamp of the village, which counts from the year 1783, had the inscription "Obecní úřad Kratochvilka" and the emblem was a lamb.
The development of the village was helped by the nearby Zbychov coal mines. The Síčka mine with its area of less than 8 hectares was located in the cadastre of the village Kratochvilka, which was in the past mainly a mining settlement. The problem that the municipality had to face from the very beginning was the lack of drinking water. Therefore, the condition of further development and construction of the village was to build a water supply.
The village was electrified in 1914. The water supply was several times modified, expanded, but the needs of the village was never enough. In the early sixties was connected to the regional water supply.
Kratochvilka, main road
The villages did not avoid various war disasters. A memorial was built in 1938 for the victims of the First World War and President T. G. Masaryk. During the First Republic, considerable development of the municipality was noted. New streets were completed.
In 1947, a telephone was introduced to the village and parcels were built along the national road for the construction of family houses, which was begun in 1949. In 1973, a new, more efficient discharge public lighting was set up, replacing bulbs. Two years later, the distribution plants reconstructed the entire electricity network in the village. In 1979, a general reconstruction of the firehouse was started, in which a ceremonial hall was also built.
On 28 February 1990, a new MNV was established in Kratochvilka and the village became independent on 1 April 1990. In the first years, the new municipal office was devoted to the repair of dilapidated buildings, pavements in the village and reconstruction of the local radio. Upon numerous requests from citizens, the reconstruction of el. networks in the village for electric heating. In 2001 the gasification of the village was completed.