Václavovice (german: Wenzlowitz, pl, Więcłowice) is a municipality and village in
Ostrava-City District
Ostrava-City District ( cs, okres Ostrava-město) is a district ('' okres'') within Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Ostrava.
List of municipalities
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in the
Moravian-Silesian Region
The Moravian-Silesian Region ( cs, Moravskoslezský kraj; pl, Kraj morawsko-śląski; sk, Moravsko-sliezsky kraj) is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region ( cs, Ostravský ...
of the
Czech Republic
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. It has about 2,100 inhabitants.
Geography
Václavovice is located about southeast of
Ostrava
Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...
, in the historical region of
Cieszyn Silesia
Cieszyn Silesia, TěšÃn Silesia or Teschen Silesia ( pl, ÅšlÄ…sk CieszyÅ„ski ; cs, TěšÃnské Slezsko or ; german: Teschener Schlesien or ) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered on the towns of Cieszyn and ÄŒeský TÄ ...
. It is urbanistically fused with the neighbouring town of
Vratimov. It lies in the
Ostrava Basin
Ostrava Basin ( cs, Ostravská pánev, german: Ostrauer Becken, pl, Kotlina OstrawskaProf. Jerzy Kondracki. Geografia fizyczna Polski. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warszawa. 1988. ) is a lowland region, located in eastern Czech Republic and s ...
lowland.
History
Václavovice was founded during the colonization of Cieszyn Silesia in the late the 13th century. The first written mention is from 1302 under its Latin name ''Wenceslaowitz''.
Politically the village belonged initially to the
Duchy of Teschen
The Duchy of Teschen (german: Herzogtum Teschen), also Duchy of Cieszyn ( pl, KsiÄ™stwo CieszyÅ„skie) or Duchy of TěšÃn ( cs, TěšÃnské knÞectvÃ), was one of the Duchies of Silesia centered on Cieszyn () in Upper Silesia. It was split o ...
, formed in 1290 in the process of
feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of
Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a
fee
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of
Kingdom of Bohemia
The Kingdom of Bohemia ( cs, ÄŒeské královstvÃ),; la, link=no, Regnum Bohemiae sometimes in English literature referred to as the Czech Kingdom, was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe, the predecessor of the modern Czec ...
, which after 1526 became part of the
Habsburg monarchy.
Demographics
Sights
The main landmark of Václavovice is the Church of Saint Wenceslaus. It is a modern church, which was built in 1998–2001.
References
External links
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Villages in Ostrava-City District
Cieszyn Silesia