Medieval The first written mention of Dědice is in document issued by the
Bishop of Olomouc Jindřich Zdík, originally dated from 1131. However, further adjustments to the dating cannot be ruled out, although the opinion postponing the time of the creation of the document to the time around 1135 has not yet been unequivocally accepted. In 1241, during the campaign against the Tatars, Jaroslav of Šternberk (a fictional figure of the Šternberk family and Moravian history) stopped here. At the end of the 13th century, Dědice was owned by Milota of Dědice (1252–1307), who came from the Benešovici family, who had an abrasion in his coat of arms - a coiled bullet. His name is documented in the form of Milota de Dieditz in the years 1278–1295. After the death of Peter of Šternberk (1397) Dědice was inherited by his brother-in-law Petr Plumlovský of Kravaře, who in the same year sold in the part of Dědice, which is closer to Vyškov, to the Augustinian monastery 16 fields without a quarter, 6 pubs, 4 seats and 5 levels 941 groschen hryvnia. In 1406, he confirmed the city's privileges to Dědice. In this way, Dědice have since been divided into two parts. After the death of Peter of Kravaře and Plumlov in 1411, most of it was in the possession of his son Jindřich Plumlovský of Kravař, who fell at the Battle of Vyšehrad in 1420. Because he had no descendants, Dědice first passed to his cousin Petr Strážnický of Kravař († 1434), and then to the son of Petr Strážnický of Kravaře, Jiří of Kravař and
Strážnice, who in 1442 confirmed the city's privileges to Dědice. In 1538, Dědice consisted of two parts, one of which belonged to the Lanškroun monastery from 1397, which moved to Olomouc during the Hussite wars. The second was a permanent fief of the Bishop of Olomouc. John of Pernštejn did not keep Dědice for a long time, and with the consent of the bishop, he sold the farm and the listed accessories (including the desolate town of Hrádek) to
John of Doubravka and Hradiště to be a bishop's estate. John of Pernštejn exchanged the farm for a Passau farm. The temple was almost destroyed in 1731 after lightning struck it and set it on fire. At that time, the parishioners, together with the then pastor P. Karel Leopold Felix (1727–1750), immediately began repairs and raised the tower, which has been preserved. In 1750, the tower was demolished because the parishioners decided to build a completely new church. Felix's successor, P. Jan Antonín Grosspeter, began to implement the intended plan. Construction began on 6 March 1752, and was completed without interior decoration and any equipment a year later, in 1753. The new Baroque church was solemnly consecrated on 18 June 1780, by the first Archbishop of Olomouc,
Antonín Theodor Colloredo (1777–1811). At the end of the World War II, heavy fighting struck the Vyškov region.
Amalgamation of Dědice and Vyškov Before the merger with Vyškov in 1941, Dědice had the legal title of
town. Dědice consisted of the settlements of Dědice, Hamiltony (
pilgrimage site) and Pazderna. In 1941, on the basis of a decree of the district governor (V-2677 / 3-1941 + No. 47/1942 UL), Dědice became a settlement of Vyškov. The municipality of Dědice was abolished and Dědice and Vyškov were merged into Vyškov.
Historical lexicon of towns and cities. The development of the position and function of town settlements in the history of the territorial division of the Czech lands from 1850 to the present of Štěpán Mleziva and Karel Kuča states that after the war a separation was carried out when the municipality of Vyškov was parted in the municipalities of Brňany, Dědice, Křečkovice, Nosálovice, Vyškov in 1945. In 1949, these municipalities were to be reunited (No. 249/1949 U2; U2 = Official Gazette II (1945–1951)). The municipality of Dědice was abolished and Dědice, together with Brňany, Křečkovice, Nosálovice and Vyškov, again became the settlement of Vyškov. On the other hand, period documents show that after 1945 Dědice and other municipalities did not become independent again after their annexation to Vyškov in 1941 and 1942, respectively. Following the decree of the District Committee of Vyškov of 26 October 1945, and after the Provincial Committee in Brno also spoke in favor of the interim joint administration of the merged municipalities in December, the Vyškov local committee continued to manage Dědice's affairs. By a decree of 7 February 1946, the Ministry of the Interior ordered the joint administration of Vyškov, Brňany, Dědice, Křečkovice and Nosálovice. On this basis, the Vyškov local committee was supplemented in March 1946 by representatives of Dědice. For the rest of the year, the citizens of Dědice nevertheless sought to reverse the decision of the ministry and did not hesitate to turn to Klement Gottwald in this matter. The result of their efforts was at least that a branch of the Vyškov local committee was established in Dědice in 1946. A major turning point occurred at the beginning of 1947, when the District Committee of Vyškov decree announced that, according to the Provincial Committee in Brno, the
"joint administration of the municipalities of Vyškov, Brňany, Dědice, Křečkovice and Nosálovice", established by a decree of the Ministry of the Interior of 7 February 1946 no. B-8111-28 / 1-1946-II / 2 according to § 27 of Decree no. 121/45 Coll., expired on 17 February 1947. As a result, it is necessary to activate their own administration in the named municipalities, i.e. to set up local National Committees in individual municipalities according to the results of the elections to the National Constituent Assembly." Vyškov had to take note of this decision, and due to the composition of national committees based on election results, election committees were formed in which two members were appointed by each party. After the mandates were recalculated, the inaugural meetings of the new local committees met. The meeting of the local committee in Dědice took place on 10 August 1947. According to the opinion of the District Committee of Vyškov, the task of the newly established local committees was to verify, among other things, whether these municipalities want to reunite with Vyškov or remain independent. In September 1947, they voted for the merger only in Nosálovice, but the Local Committee of Vyškov insisted that all municipalities be reunited. However, apart from Nosálovice, other local committees did not agree to the merger. In the territory of Vyškov, there were more or less formally five local committees (local committees outside the local committee in Vyškov actually had no authority, as there was no division of financial management), which lasted until the beginning of 1948. On 19 January 1948 it was decided to hand over the administration to the local committees of individual municipalities, even "de facto". This was to take place on 23 February 1948. The only thing missing was the approval of the Provincial Committee in Brno. District Committee of Vyškov, before it was granted, convened a representative of the local committees on 19 February and then issued an acreage on 21 February, deciding that Vyškov should be administered by a joint local committee by the end of March 1948. Until then, the Provincial Committee in Brno was expected to issue an opinion on the merger or separation of municipalities. The Provincial Committee in Brno issued an instruction on the basis of which the District Committee of Vyškov held a meeting on 25 February, which was attended by representatives of the provincial committee, the district committee and the local committees Vyškov and Dědice. The inhabitants of Dědice were the most active in the question of their independence, when they urgently urged the solution at the Provincial Committee in Brno. The arguments for merging the municipalities into one unit were presented at the meeting by Jaroslav Sedlák, a member of the county of the provincial committee. The case was then formally concluded by a decision of the Provincial Committee in Brno of 9 March 1948 on the merger of neighboring municipalities with Vyškov, which was justified by the "urgent public interest". The situation was thus clarified and the municipalities were not separated from Vyškov. However, Dědice in particular did not intend to accept this situation, and at the end of January 1949 their message set out for
Prague to the office of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic. There they protested against the amalgamation with Vyškov. The mission was unsuccessful, so Dědice (together with representatives of Brňany) appealed to the Ministry of the Interior against the decision of the provincial committee of 9 March 1948 on the amalgamation of municipalities. But they didn't succeed there either. By its decree of 14 September 1949, the District Committee of Vyškov was finally able to state that
"... the quoted decision of the former provincial committee in Brno on the merger of the municipalities of Vyškov, Dědice, Brňany, Křečkovice and Nosálovice came into force.". Since 1950, Dědice has been part of Vyškov in the
Vyškov district. Pazderna, osada Dědic, pohlednice prošlá poštou 24. 12. 1900.jpg|Settlement of Dědice: Pazderna, 1900 Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1904.jpg|Early 20th century Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v 1. desetiletí 20. století.jpg|1910s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1915.jpg|First half of the 1910s. Höfer's villa Dědice, neprošlá poštou, pohlednice vydána před rokem 1930, snad někdy v letech 1911-1920.jpg|Dědice, 1910s to 1920s Pozdrav z Dědic u Vyškova, prošlá poštou 5. 1. 1922.jpg|Dědice, 1920s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1930.jpg|Dědice, 1920s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1938.jpg|Dědice, 2nd half of the 1930s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1947, vydána okolo 1940 (1. polovina 40. let. 20. století).jpg|First half of the 1940s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou v roce 1947.jpg|Second half of the 1940s. Dědice u Vyškova, Orbis, Kčs 2,50, asi 1948, náměstí v Dědicích.jpg|Square in Dědice, late 1940s or early 1950s. Rodný dům Klementa Gottwalda v Dědicích na Hané, vydala Společnost Čs. Červeného kříže Ústředí Dorostu, pohlednice.jpg|The so-called The birth house of Klement Gottwald in Dědice on Haná in the condition before reconstruction. 2nd half of the 1940s / early 1950s. Vyškov-Dědice, Rodný dům presidenta republiky, Orbis, Kčs 2,50, začátek 50. let 20. století, domek ve stavu před rekonstrukcí započatou v roce 1954.jpg|The so-called Klement Gottwald's birth house before reconstruction started in 1954 Vyškov - Dědice, Městys Dědice, 50. léta 20. století, foto Josef Zapletal, neprošlá poštou 01.jpg|The so-called Klement Gottwald's birthplace after reconstruction, second half of the 1950s Dědice, pohlednice prošlá poštou 17. dubna 1962 - vyškovská nemocnice v Dědicích.jpg|Vyškov Hospital in Dědice, early 1960s Dědice, pohlednice neprošlá poštou, začátek 60. let 20. století - pomník Klementa Gottwalda v Dědicích na náměstí Svobody.jpg|Monument to Klement Gottwald on Svobody Square, early 1960s Dědice, pohlednice neprošlá poštou, 60. léta 20. století - Památník Klementa Gottwalda, ulice Revoluční - rodná světnička.jpg|Klement Gottwald Memorial - native room, 1950s or 1960s Vyškov - Dědice, Památník Klementa Gottwalda - rodná světnička, 60. až 70. léta 20. století, neprošlá poštou 01.jpg|Klement Gottwald Memorial - native room, 1960s to 1970s Until the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, the historical part of Dědice has been preserved in the original layout of the floor plan and with the original material structure, with some exceptions. Thus, a number of houses on Dědická Street no longer stand on Svobody Square in places where, for example, there is a public transport stop today. The appearance of the square was modified, for example, in the 1980s, when the monument to Klement Gottwald was moved from its original location, and even later. After the Velvet Revolution, the statue of Klement Gottwald from 1956 (by Vincenc Havel of Opava) was removed.
Monuments Today, there is a monument to the victims of the First World War bearing the inscription: In memory of the citizens of Dědice, Hamiltony and Pazderna who fell in World War I in 1914–1918, which was built here in 1921. Later, the monument was relocated and stood at the top of the cemetery in Dědice, and a monument to Klement Gottwald was erected on the square, which stood there until the early 1990s, when it was removed and subsequently stored in the depository of the Vyškov Region Museum in Dědice. After the change of circumstances in 1989, the monument to the victims of the First World War was repaired and in 2009 moved to Svobody Square. In the area of the barracks next to the housing estate of Vít Nejedlý (Kozí Horka) there is a monument to Ludvík Svoboda and at the southern edge of the platform there is a monument to military operations in the 1st and 2nd World Wars from 1977. There is also a monument to the operations of the Second World War. == Demographics ==