Moravská Třebová

Moravská Třebová
Moravská Třebová
	Town
	Tomáš G. Masaryk Square
	Flag Coat of arms
	Moravská Třebová Location in the Czech Republic
	Coordinates: 49°45′29″N 16°39′51″E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Pardubice
District	Svitavy
First mentioned	1270
Government
• Mayor	Tomáš Kolkop
Area
• Total	42.205 km2 (16.295 sq mi)
Elevation	360 m (1,180 ft)
Population (2019-01-01[1])
• Total	10,070
• Density	240/km2 (620/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	571 01
Website	www.mtrebova-city.cz

Moravská Třebová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmorafskaː ˈtr̝̊ɛbovaː]; German: Mährisch Trübau) is a town in the Svitavy District and lies in the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic. It has around 10,000 inhabitants.

Moravská Třebová is located on the Třebůvka River.

It was the largest German linguistic enclave within Bohemia and Moravia. Some locations were just some kilometers apart from the other German-speaking areas. Until the expulsion of the Germans in 1945/46 according to the Beneš decrees, it was exclusively inhabited by German-speaking population. Between 1850 and 1960 Moravská Třebová has been a district town.

Town development

Part of the town of Moravská Třebová are the incorporated villages of Boršov, Sušice and Udánky.

History

Moravská Třebová was founded around 1257 by Boreš of Rýzmburk as typical colonization town. The biggest boom for Moravská Třebová during the rule of the Lords of Boskovic and Ladislav Velen of Žerotín (1486-1622), when the city was the center of humanistic scholarship and earned the nickname Moravian Athens.

Until 1918 the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 34 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Moravia.[2]

Notable people

Rochus Schüch (1788–1844), naturalist and scientific advisor to the court of Princess Leopoldina of Brazil
Carl Giskra (1820–1879), Austrian politician
Alois Czerny (1847–1917), native country researcher
Ludwig (Lewis) Vincent Holzmaister (1849–1923), emigrant to the US, achieved prosperity and donated the former "Holzmaister-Museum"
Franz Spina (1868–1938), German-Czechoslovak politician
Walther Hensel (1887–1956), music researcher
Magda B. Arnold (1903--2002), psychologist
Friedrich Lang (1915–2003), Luftwaffe pilot
Gert Wilden (1917–2015), composer and conductor
Gerhard Pieschl (born 1934), auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg
Marcel Kolaja (born 1980), Czech politician
Roman Kreuziger (born 1986), road bicycle racer
Leopold König (born 1987), road bicycle racer

Twin towns — sister cities

Moravská Třebová is twinned with:[3]

References

"Population of municipalities of the Czech republic". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm Klein, 1967
"Partnerská města" (in Czech). Město Moravská Třebová. Retrieved 2019-08-25.

External links

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[1] "Population of municipalities of the Czech republic". Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2019-04-30.

[2] Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890, Wilhelm Klein, 1967

[3] "Partnerská města" (in Czech). Město Moravská Třebová. Retrieved 2019-08-25.