Žermanice

Žermanice is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.

Geography
Žermanice is located about 8 km northeast of Frýdek-Místek and 13 km southeast of Ostrava. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, in the western part of the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point is the hill U Třešně at 345 m above sea level.

The municipality is situated on the banks of the Lučina River and on the shore of Žermanice Reservoir, which was built in 1951–1957, but lies just outside the municipal territory.

Žermanický lom is a 2 ha large wetland ecosystem protected as a nature monument, where several species of critically endangered plants grow.

History
The village could have been founded by Benedictine monks from the Orlová monastery and was first mentioned in 1450 as Zilmanicze.

In 1461, it was owned by Jan Hunt of Kornice, the owner of neighbouring Horní Bludovice. In 1483, the village was inherited by his two sons. Before the end of the 15th century, it was bought by Jan Trnka of Racibórz, a tenant of Frýdek, who then bestowed the village upon the town. Hence, as a property of Frýdek, it was as a special case a part of the Frýdek state country that was split from the Duchy of Teschen in 1573, which was a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, since 1526 a part of the Habsburg monarchy. After World War I and fall of Austria-Hungary, it became a part of Czechoslovakia.

Transport
There are no railways or major roads passing through the municipality.

Sights
There are no protected cultural monuments in the municipality. The Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built in 1843–1848.