Dětmarovice (; , or ''Dittmannsdorf'') is a municipality and village in

Karviná District Karviná District () is a Okres, district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Karviná, but the most populated city is Havířov. Administrative division Karviná District is divided into five Distric ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 4,500 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Dětmarovice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Dětmarovice (3,884) * Koukolná (231)

Etymology

The name is

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in origin derived from German personal name '' Dietmar''. It was first mentioned in Latin form ''Dithmari villa'' (1305), later as ''Dytmarsdorff'' (1392), ''Dietmarsdorf'' (1430), ''Dieczmarowicz ' (1438, 1447), ''Dieczmiorowice'' (1652), ''Dittmersdorf/Dieczmorowitz'' (1736), ''Dittmansdorf/Dietmarowicze'' (1804), ''Dittmannsdorf/Dětmarovice/Dziećmarowice'' (1900).

Geography

Dětmarovice is located about northwest of

Karviná Karviná (; , ) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 49,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Olza (river), Olza River in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Karviná is known as an industrial city with t ...

and northeast of

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

, on the border with Poland. It lies in the

Ostrava Basin The Ostrava Basin (, , ) is a lowland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic and Poland. It is located in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. Geomorphology The Ostrava Ba ...

lowland in the historical region of

Cieszyn Silesia Cieszyn Silesia, Těšín Silesia or Teschen Silesia ( ; or ; or ) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered on the towns of Cieszyn and Český Těšín and bisected by the Olza River. Since 1920 it has been divided betwe ...

. The municipality is situated on the left bank of the Olza River.

History

According to some documents, Dětmarovice was mentioned as early as 1302, but these are unverified mentions. Officially the village was first mentioned in a Latin document of

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called ''

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'' from 1305. It was originally founded north of the present village, but after a great fire it was restored in its present location. The village became a seat of a Catholic

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, mentioned in the register of

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payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Teschen

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. Politically the village belonged initially to the

Duchy of Teschen The Duchy of Teschen (), also Duchy of Cieszyn () or Duchy of Těšín (), was one of the Duchies of Silesia centered on Cieszyn () in Upper Silesia. It was split off the Silesian Duchy of Opole and Racibórz in 1281 during the feudal divisio ...

, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of

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. In 1327 the duchy became a

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, which after 1526 became part of the

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. In 1573 it was sold as one of a dozen villages and the town of

Freistadt Freistadt (, ) is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of a district of the sa ...

and formed a

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split from the Duchy of Teschen. The village was bought in 1792 by Jan Larisch who joined it with its

properties. It was owned by the Larisch family until 1927. After

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a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established

Austrian Silesia Austrian Silesia, officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804 the Austrian Empire, and from 1867 the Cisleithanian portion of Austria-Hungary). It is la ...

. The village as a municipality was subscribed in 1869 to the newly established Freistadt political district and

Oderberg Oderberg () is a town in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg in northeastern Germany. It is situated 16 km east of Eberswalde, and 27 km southwest of Schwedt, close to the border with Poland, and in close vicinity of Berlin. Overvie ...

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, but before 1890 the municipality was transferred to

legal district. The first written mention of Koukolná is from 1447. It was a separate municipality until 1872–1875, when it was merged with Dětmarovice. According to the censuses conducted in 1880–1910, the population of the municipality grew from 1,769 in 1880 to 3,453 in 1910. In three censuses majority were Czech-speakers (84.9% in 1880, 64% in 1890, 77.1% in 1910, 12.5% minority in 1900), in 1900 majority were Polish-speakers (86.7%, in other censuses minority: 13.9% in 1880, 34.6% in 1890, 21.8% in 1910). They were accompanied by German-speaking minority (between 0.8% and 1.4%). In terms of religion in 1910, the majority were

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(98.2%), followed by

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(0.9%) and

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(0.6%). After

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and the division of

in 1920, the village became a part of

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

. Following the

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, in October 1938 together with the

Trans-Olza Trans-Olza (, ; , ''Záolší''; ), also known as Trans-Olza Silesia (), is a territory in the Czech Republic which was disputed between Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period. Its name comes from the Olza River. The history of ...

region it was annexed by

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, administratively organised in

Frysztat County Frysztat County () was an administrative territorial entity of the Second Polish Republic. Named after its capital in the town of Frysztat (now Fryštát district of the town Karviná, Czech Republic), it was part of Silesian Voivodeship (1920–39 ...

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. The municipality was then annexed by

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at the beginning of

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. After the war it was restored to

Demographics

Economy

There is a large thermal

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in the municipality owned by

ČEZ Group ČEZ Group ( České Energetické Závody) is a conglomerate of 96 companies (including the parent company ČEZ, a.s.), 72 of them in the Czech Republic. Its core business is the generation, distribution, trade in, and sales of electricity and ...

. It was built in 1971–1976. It is the only large thermal power station in the country burning

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. In 1998, a filter reducing the

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was installed.

Transport

The I/67 road from

Český Těšín Český Těšín (; ; ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza (river), Olza river, in the heart of the historical ...

Bohumín Bohumín (; , ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Bohumín consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 202 ...

passes through the municipality. Dětmarovice is located on the main railway line from

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. Another important line to

–

Žilina Žilina (; ; ; ; Names of European cities in different languages: U-Z#Z, names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the List of cities ...

–

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

splits here from the line to Warsaw. The passenger transport is provided on the line

–

Mosty u Jablunkova Mosty u Jablunkova (until 1949 Mosty; , ) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,600 inhabitants. The municipality has a significant Polish minority in the Cze ...

. The power station is connected to the railway.

Sport

The municipality hosted the start of the first stage of the

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and

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Sights

Historical landmarks include the Něbroj's chapel from around 1860 and the Catholic Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, built in

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style in 1869–1870.

Notable people

* Inge Bauer (born 1940), German pentathlete

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Detmarovice Villages in Karviná District Cieszyn Silesia