In September 1938 the area became the site of fighting between the Czechoslovak armed forces and Sudetendeutsches Freikorps. On 28 September an attack by the Freikorps supported by local German residents to drive Czechoslovak forces off and by the next morning had to retreat to the left bank of the Vltava. Later that day, Czechoslovak reinforcements arrived, one bicycle company and another company by armored train enabling Czechoslovak forces to quickly retake the town. The Munich Agreement later gave the Vyšebrodsko as well as the rest of Sudetenland to Germany.