Ropice

History

The creation of the village was a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what will be later known as Upper Silesia. Ropice was first mentioned in a Latin document of Diocese of Wrocław called Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1305 as Ropiza. Politically Ropice belonged to the Duchy of Teschen (1297 described bilaterally as part of Poland), since 1327 within the Kingdom of Bohemia. The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Teschen deanery as Ropicza. After the 1540s Protestant Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and a local Catholic church was taken over by Lutherans. It was taken from them (as one from around fifty buildings in the region) by a special commission and given back to the Roman Catholic Church on 26 March 1654. In the early 15th century, a fortress was built in Ropice. The first known owners of Ropice were the Sobek family in 1430. The family owned the village until 1693. Around 1700, Ropice was acquired by Filip Saint Genois. He had rebuilt the fortress into a Baroque castle in the early 18th century. In 1785 the Saint Genois family sold Ropice to the Celesta family, who had made Neoclassical renovation of the castle in 1810. After World War I, Polish–Czechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, it became a part of Czechoslovakia. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Trans-Olza region it was annexed by Poland, administratively adjoined to Cieszyn County of Silesian Voivodeship. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Czechoslovakia. In 1980, Ropice became a municipal…

Geography

Ropice is located about east of Frýdek-Místek and southeast of Ostrava, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It lies in the Moravian-Silesian Foothills. The highest point is the hill Štěpnice at above sea level. The Ropičanka Stream flows through the municipality. The Olza River forms the northeastern municipal border.

Most-observed species

• Daisy

  Bellis perennis L. · Magnoliopsida
  2,993
• Ground-ivy

  Glechoma hederacea L. · Magnoliopsida
  2,186
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,123
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,092
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  950
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  857
• Common Nettle

  Urtica dioica L. · Magnoliopsida
  846
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  832

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2026-04-09
  1 km WNW of Radlin, Poland
• M 2.9 — 2025-04-29
  4 km WSW of Bytom, Poland
• M 3.2 — 2025-01-27
  1 km NE of Radlin, Poland
• M 2.9 — 2024-07-11
  4 km N of Jejkowice, Poland
• M 3 — 2023-10-04
  2 km W of Murcki, Poland
• M 2.8 — 2023-01-12
  2 km ENE of Karviná, Czechia