Official website (https://www.mesto-hranice.cz/)
Hranice
Sign in to savetown in Olomouc Region, Czech Republic
Key facts
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Region
- Olomouc
- District
- Přerov
- Founded
- 12th century
- Mayor
- Daniel Vitonský
- Total
- 49.78 km (19.22 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 250 m (820 ft)
- Density
- 359.8/km (931.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 753 01, 753 54, 753 61
- Website
- www .mesto-hranice .cz
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Hranice
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Contains
- Středolesí
- Population
- 18397
- Area
- 49.775368
- Elevation
- 250
- Body of water
- Bečva
- Shares border with
- Střítež nad Ludinou
- Official website
- www.mesto-hranice.cz
- Image
- Hranice, Čechova.JPG
- Licence plate code
- M
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- Commons category
- Hranice (Přerov District)
- twinned administrative body
- Hlohovec
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hranice (Přerov District)
- time of earliest written record
- 1276-01-17
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- topic's main category
- Category:Hranice (Přerov District)
- Commons gallery
- Hranice (Přerov District)
- historical region
- Moravia
- postal code
- 753 61
- native label
- Hranice
- different from
- Hranice
- number of houses
- 2732
- mean age
- 43.8
- P6482
- Hranice
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1209675
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Encyclopedic overview
Hranice ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈɦraɲɪtsɛ]; German: Mährisch Weißkirchen) is a town in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 18,000 inhabitants. The town is located on the Bečva River and is known for the Hranice Abyss, the deepest flooded pit cave in the world.
Hranice is an industrial city and railway junction. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Among the main landmarks are the Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Hranice Castle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hranice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.