Karlovice () is a municipality and village in

Bruntál District Bruntál District () is a Okres, district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Bruntál, but the most populated town is Krnov. Administrative division Bruntál District is divided into three Districts o ...

in the

Moravian-Silesian Region The Moravian-Silesian Region () is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most ...

of the

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. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Karlovice consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Karlovice (843) *Zadní Ves (128)

Geography

Karlovice is located about north of

Bruntál Bruntál (; ) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 15,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zon ...

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 ...

. It lies on the border between three mountain ranges: Zlatohorská Highlands,

Nízký Jeseník Nízký Jeseník (, ) is a flat highland and Geomorphological division of the Czech Republic, geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the east of the country in the Olomouc Region, Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian Region, M ...

and Hrubý Jeseník. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Zlatohorská Highlands. The highest point is near the top of the Větrník mountain at above sea level. The built-up area lies in the valley of the Opava River.

History

The first written mention of Karlovice is from 1558, then called Hütten. The village was destroyed during the

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and renewed in the 18th century. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the German occupiers operated the E733

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subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344

prisoner-of-war camp A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as Prisoner of war, prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, inte ...

in the village.

Demographics

Transport

Karlovice is located on the railway line

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– Milotice nad Opavou.

Sights

The main landmark of Karlovice is the Church of Saint John of Nepomuk. It was built in the late Baroque style in 1777–1779. An important technical monument is a former

scythe A scythe (, rhyming with ''writhe'') is an agriculture, agricultural hand-tool for mowing grass or Harvest, harvesting Crop, crops. It was historically used to cut down or reaping, reap edible grain, grains before they underwent the process of ...

manufactory. It is a timbered two-storey house dating from around 1600, modified to its present form in 1759. Today it houses a local museum that focuses primarily on forestry. The building is protected as a national cultural monument.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlovice Villages in Bruntál District