Nová Brtnice is a municipality and village in Třebíč District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 21 inhabitants. Nová Brtnice was founded as a “tenant village” at the end of the 18th century, on the post road near the Kněžice turnoff. It is also stated that it should have been created during the plague when Brtnice was blocked and those who escaped from Brtnice and could not get back founded Nova Brtnice.

This village is south of Radonín and is where our great-grandmother Antonína Filová was born. It is also where her daughter, our grandmother Božena “Bessie” Rose Zimola, was born.

We were accompanied to Nová Brtnice by one of our Fila relatives. She joined us on our trip to Malé earlier, had lunch with us and a Fila cousin of hers and later in the day, we had dinner with her family in Panská Lhota.

Nova Brtnice is SO tiny; the relative we met was in a Speedo. He had a nice big backyard with a Moravian Berry orchard, outbuildings and a pizza oven.