Město Libavá

Město Libavá (Liebau, Stadt Liebau) is a municipality and village in Olomouc District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The village of Heroltovice is an administrative part of Město Libavá.

Geography
Město Libavá is located about 23 km northeast of Olomouc. It lies in the Nízký Jeseník range. The highest point is at 722 m above sea level. The stream Libavský potok flows through the municipality.

History
The first written mention of Město Libavá is from 1301, when it was a property of the Olomouc bishopric.

Město Libavá became a separate municipality on 1 January 2016 by reduction of Libavá Military Training Area.

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

Sights
The main landmark of Město Libavá is the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It was built in the Baroque style in the 1660s. From 2016, it is owned by the municipality and is used for cultural and social purposes.

The Church of Saints James the Great and Anne is located in a remote place called Stará Voda, where there was once a large pilgrimage complex with a Dominican monastery. The church was built in the Baroque style in 1681–1689, on the site of two old pilgrimage chapels.

A rare technical monument is a Dutch-type windmill from the second half of the 19th century.

Notable people

 * John M. Oesterreicher (1904–1993), Austrian-American Catholic theologian