Město Libavá (german: Liebau, Stadt Liebau) is a municipality and village in
Olomouc District in the
Olomouc Region of the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
. It has about 600 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Heroltovice is an administrative part of Město Libavá.
History
The first written mention of Město Libavá is from 1301, when it was a property of
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc ( cs, Arcidiecéze olomoucká, la, Archidioecesis Olomucensis) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc.
Special churches
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Město Libavá became a separate municipality on 1 January 2016 by reduction of
Libavá Military Training Area.
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Notable people
*John M. Oesterreicher
Monsignor John Maria Oesterreicher (2 February 1904 – 18 April 1993), born Johannes Oesterreicher, was a Catholic theologian and a leading advocate of Jewish–Catholic reconciliation. He was one of the architects of ''Nostra aetate'' or "In Our ...
(1904–1993), Austrian-American Catholic theologian
References
Villages in Olomouc District
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