Hrabyně

Hrabyně
Hrabyně
Municipality
	The World War II Memorial
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	Hrabyně Location in the Czech Republic
	Coordinates: 49°52′57″N 18°3′18″E / 49.88250°N 18.05500°E
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Moravian-Silesian
District	Opava
First mentioned	1377
Area
• Total	10.03 km2 (3.87 sq mi)
Elevation	363 m (1,191 ft)
Population (2020-01-01)
• Total	1,182
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	747 63
Website	www.hrabyne.cz

Hrabyně (German: Hrabin) is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants. It lies approximately 20 km north-west from Ostrava and 13 km south-east from Opava.

Administrative parts

Village of Josefovice is an administrative part of Hrabyně.

History

The first written metion of Hrabyně is from 1377.^[2]

Culture

The traditional Hrabyňská pilgrimage takes place every year on 15 August.

Facilities

The rehabilitation centre in Hrabyně is widely used by the people from the entire country. Patients who have problems with their locomotive organs are expertly taken care of there.

Notable people

Karel Engliš (1880–1961), economist, political scientist and politician

References

^ "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.
^ "Historie obce" (in Czech). Obec Hrabyně. Retrieved 2020-11-26.

External links

Official website

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[1] "Population of Municipalities – 1 January 2020". Czech Statistical Office. 2020-04-30.

[2] "Historie obce" (in Czech). Obec Hrabyně. Retrieved 2020-11-26.

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