Šilheřovice

Šilheřovice
Šilheřovice
	Municipality
	Šilheřovice Castle
	Flag Coat of arms
	Šilheřovice
	Coordinates: 49°55′14″N 18°16′35″E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Moravian-Silesian
District	Opava
Government
• Mayor	Radek Kaňa
Area
• Total	21.65 km2 (8.36 sq mi)
Elevation	221 m (725 ft)
Population (2017)
• Total	1,581[1]
• Density	73/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	747 15

Šilheřovice (German: Schillersdorf, Polish: Szylerzowice) is a village in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is part of the Hlučínsko micro-region of Czech Silesia, located about 8 km (5.0 mi) northeast of Hlučín at the border with Poland. The municipality has about 1,500 inhabitants.

Šilheřovice was first mentioned in a 1377 deed, when it was part of the Silesian Duchy of Opava. With Hlučínsko it was annexed by Prussia after the First Silesian War in 1742. In 1787 the Prussian noble Friedrich von Eichendorff purchased the estates and had a Neoclassical castle built, where his young nephew Joseph von Eichendorff spent several vacations. In 1846 Schillersdorf Castle was acquired by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, progenitor of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, while in 1920 the Hlučínsko region, that had formerly belonged to the Prussian Province of Silesia, was adjudicated to Czechoslovakia according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

References

"Population of Municipalities as of 1 January 2017". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

External links

Official website (in Czech)
Schillersdorf Castle (in Czech)

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[1] "Population of Municipalities as of 1 January 2017". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 26 December 2017.