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Mikulovice (Jeseník District)
Summary
Mikulovice (Niklasdorf, Mikułowice) is a municipality and village in Jeseník District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants.
Villages of Kolnovice and Široký Brod are administrative parts of Mikulovice.
Mikulovice is located about northeast of Jeseník and north of Olomouc, on the border with Poland. It lies in the Zlatohorská Highlands. The highest point is the mountains Bílé skály at above sea level. The built-up area is situated in the valley of the Bělá River. The Olešnice Stream flows into the Bělá in the village. Most of the municipal territory lies within the Jeseníky Protected Landscape Area.
The first written mention of Mikulovice is from 1263. It was founded in the 13th century, during the colonization by the bishops of Wrocław, who owned the area.
Mikulovice became part of the Duchy of Nysa, which later on passed under Bohemian suzerainty, and following the duchy's dissolution in 1850, it was incorporated directly into Bohemia. Following World War I, from 1918, it formed part of Czechoslovakia.
From 1938 to 1945 it was occupied by Germany and administered as part of Reichsgau Sudetenland. During World War II, the Germans operated several forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.
In 1907, Mikulovice became a market town, but lost the title during the reformation in 1949.
There is a railway border crossing and a road border crossing, both named Mikulovice / Głuchołazy.
Mikulovice lies on the Krnov–Jeseník railway line.
The main landmark of Mikulovice is the Church of Saint Nicholas. It was built in 1903, when it replaced an old church from 1550.
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