Talk:Opava

Geography

Opava is located on the Opava Hilly Land (Czech: Opavská pahorkatina; a part of the Silesian Lowlands) on the Opava River (left tributary of the Oder River) and Moravice River (right tributary of the Opava River).

Historical names in history section

From the page "Duchy of Troppau" "The duchy was created from lands split off from the Margraviate of Moravia before 1269[1] by King Ottokar II of Bohemia to provide for his natural son, Nicholas I, Duke of Troppau, as he was henceforth known"

So from its inception as a Duchy, it was known as Troppau- Should not the Danzig Rule apply here- to remove all German traces from history is NPOV; to call it the "Austrian Duchy of Opava" is as inaccurate as saying the "Duchy of Warschau" after 1918 it should rightly be then called Opava. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rikaard (talk • contribs) 02:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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Link to synagogue

There was once a synagogue in Opava and it has an article (Synagogue in Opava). The synagogue should be mentioned here at least with See also.--Wanfried-Dublin (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

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Administrative divisions

"Opava consists of eight self-governing city parts in the suburbs and the central part that is directly administered. In addition, Opava consists of 14 municipal parts, whose borders do not respect the boundaries of the city parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):"

A quick question on this. The count of the "municipal parts" is throwing me off, because it appears to be counting the municipal parts even in the "unparished" part of the city, but with the exception of Mesto. Shouldn't this read "In addition to Opava Mesto, the city consists of 14 municipal parts"? And, honestly, it should really just read that there are 15 municipal parts to take away all confusion. This is what the citations provide show, anyway. Criticalthinker (talk) 22:54, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Opava has the most complicated division of all Czech cities and I understand that it can be confusing. But you are absolutely right, one municipal part was missing and I thank you for the excellent observation. FromCzech (talk) 06:07, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

What is the difference in competencies as it concerns "city parts" and "municipal parts"? Why are there two different kinds of divisions to begin with, instead of just one or the other? As far as I can tell, national law allows statutory cities to be subdivided into "city parts." What law covers "municipal parts"? Criticalthinker (talk) 05:30, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

For municipal parts, see Act No. 128/2000 Coll., Section 27. Municipal parts usually refer to geographically and historically separate urban units (villages). The house numbers in each municipal part are unique.

A city part is an artificially created unit of statutory cities that elects its own mayor and has powers similar to municipal authorities. Only seven of Czech cities used this power and created city parts or a similar unit (there are two historical terms městská část and městský obvod, but from a legal point of view they are synonyms and there is no difference between them; and the city of Prague is regulated by a separate law). Opava is an exception that did not create city parts from existing municipal parts, but independently of their borders. FromCzech (talk) 06:30, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

One more follow-up: What is the Czech term for "municipal parts" then, and who creates "municipal parts"? It appears that "city parts" are delineated by the cities, themselves.

I'm asking all of this, because it would probably be notable in the "administrative divisions" section to add a sentence or two about the fact that Opava is unique in delineating "city parts" which do not use the existing "municipal parts" as boundaries. It's kind of already stated, but it's confusing. And then a sentence or two added that the cities create "city parts" and that some other body (national government? statistics agency? postal agency?) delineates the "municipal parts." Criticalthinker (talk) 09:22, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

New municipal part (část obce, plural části obce) can be created by the municipality and its creation must be approved by the Ministry of the Interior. Given that municipal parts correspond mainly to historical settlements, the emergence of new ones is rare.

It is possible to slightly reformulate the sentence, if it is incomprehensible (but it seems not to me); you can suggest something. But I would not overestimate the discrepancy between city parts and municipal parts. It occurred only in one case, when a small adjacent area belonging to neighbouring two municipal parts was attached to Vávrovice. When I look at the map, it probably happened to respect the natural boundaries in the current built-up area and not the historical division of land, but that is just my theory. FromCzech (talk) 10:50, 1 June 2026 (UTC)