Žermanice

Municipality in Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic

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49°44′18″N 18°26′34″E / 49.73833°N 18.44278°E / 49.73833; 18.44278Country

Czech RepublicRegionMoravian-SilesianDistrict Frýdek-MístekFirst mentioned1450Area

• Total3.43 km² (1.32 sq mi)Elevation

268 m (879 ft)Population

(2023-01-01)^[1]

• Total351 • Density100/km² (270/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

739 37

Websitewww.obeczermanice.cz

Žermanice is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.

Geography

Žermanice is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) northeast of Frýdek-Místek and 13 km (8 mi) southeast of Ostrava. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, in the western part of the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point is the hill U Třešně at 345 m (1,132 ft) above sea level.

The municipality is situated on the banks of the Lučina River and on the shore of Žermanice Reservoir, which was built in 1951–1957, but lies just outside the municipal territory.

Žermanický lom is a 2 ha (5 acres) large wetland ecosystem protected as a nature monument, where several species of critically endangered plants grow.^[2]

History

The village could have been founded by Benedictine monks from the Orlová monastery and was first mentioned in 1450 as Zilmanicze.^[2]^[3]

In 1461, it was owned by Jan Hunt of Kornice, the owner of neighbouring Horní Bludovice. In 1483, the village was inherited by his two sons. Before the end of the 15th century, it was bought by Jan Trnka of Racibórz, a tenant of Frýdek, who then bestowed the village upon the town.^[2] Hence, as a property of Frýdek, it was as a special case a part of the Frýdek state country that was split from the Duchy of Teschen in 1573, which was a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, since 1526 a part of the Habsburg monarchy. After World War I and fall of Austria-Hungary, it became a part of Czechoslovakia.

Sights

There are no protected cultural monuments in the municipality.^[4] The Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built in 1843–1848.^[2]

References

^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2023". Czech Statistical Office. 2023-05-23.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Historie obce" (in Czech). Obec Žermanice. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
^ Panic, Idzi (2015). Śląsk Cieszyński w średniowieczu (do 1528) [Cieszyn Silesia in Middle Ages (until 1528)] (PDF) (in Polish). Cieszyn: Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie. pp. 297–299, 308. ISBN 978-83-935147-8-6.
^ "Výsledky vyhledávání: Kulturní památky, okres Frýdek-Místek". Ústřední seznam kulturních památek (in Czech). National Heritage Institute. Retrieved 2023-08-16.