Tichá is a municipality and village in

Nový Jičín District Nový Jičín District () is a district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Nový Jičín. Administrative division Nový Jičín District is divided into five administrative districts of municipalitie ...

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

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. It has about 2,000 inhabitants.

Etymology

The name literally means 'silent' in Czech.

Geography

Tichá is located about east of

Nový Jičín Nový Jičín (; ) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. The historic centre of Nový Jičín is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument reservati ...

and south 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 in the

Moravian-Silesian Foothills Moravian-Silesian Foothills () are foothills and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. Geomorphology The Moravian-Silesian Foothills is a mesoregion of the Western Beskidian Foothills macroregion within the Outer Western Carpath ...

. The highest point is the hill Tichavská hůrka at above sea level. The Tichávka Stream flows through the municipality. The Lubina River flows along the western municipal border.

History

The first written mention of Tichá is from 1359.

Demographics

Transport

The I/58 road from Ostrava to

Rožnov pod Radhoštěm Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (; ) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. Geography Rožnov pod Radhoštěm is located about northeast of Vsetín and south of Ostrava. It lies in the ...

passes through the western part of the municipality.

Sights

The main landmark of Tichá is the Church of Saint Nicholas. It was originally a wooden church from the first quarter of the 16th century, but it burned down in 1964 after being struck by lightning. In 1976, the current modern church was built on its site. Among the protected cultural monuments in the municipality are a sandstone column shrine from 1647, a late Baroque sandstone cross from 1770, and the ''Smuteční píseň'' sculptural group from 1959.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ticha Villages in Nový Jičín District