Žermanice

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Žermanice is a small municipality and village in the Frýdek-Místek District of the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. It has about 370 inhabitants. The area is 3.43 square kilometers and the elevation is around 268 meters above sea level.

Geography
Žermanice lies about 8 kilometers northeast of Frýdek-Místek and 13 kilometers southeast of Ostrava, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, in the western part of the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The Lučina River flows nearby, and the Žermanice Reservoir was built from 1951 to 1957, but it lies just outside the municipality. The nearby Žermanický lom is a 2-hectare wetland protected as a nature monument, where several endangered plants grow.

History
The village may 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, and in 1483 by his two sons. By the end of the 15th century it was bought by Jan Trnka of Racibórz, who gave it to the town of Frýdek. As part of Frýdek, it became a special area within the Frýdek state country after the Duchy of Teschen was split off in 1573. It belonged to the Kingdom of Bohemia and, from 1526, to the Habsburg monarchy. After World War I it became part of Czechoslovakia.

There are no railways or major roads in the municipality, and there are no protected cultural monuments. The Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built between 1843 and 1848. The highest point nearby is the hill U Třešně, at 345 meters above sea level.