Šternberk

Sister cities

• Kobiór
• Lorsch
• Kungsbacka Municipality
• Günzburg
• Dobšiná

History

The first written mention of Šternberk is from 1269, when the Šternberk Castle appeared in a deed of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. The castle was founded between 1253 and 1269. The town of Šternberk was first mentioned in 1296, in a deed of the Šternberk's owner, Albert of Šternberk. Although it was referred to as a town, it did not become a full-fledged town until the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. Albert of Šternberk colonised the town with German colonist, which led to an ethnically mixed population. The Lords of Šternberk gradually expanded the estate. The town developed mainly during the rule of Albert II of Šternberk, who had built the town walls and founded the local Augustinian monastery in 1371. After the death of Petr of Šternberk in 1397, the Šternberk estate was inherited by the Lords of Kravaře. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the town was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. The German-speaking population was expelled in 1945–1946 according to the Beneš decrees and replaced by Czech settlers.

Geography

Šternberk is located about north of Olomouc. It lies on the border of two geomorphological regions. Most of the municipal territory belongs to the Nízký Jeseník range, but the eastern part of the town lies in the Upper Morava Valley. The highest point is the hill Vysoká Roudná at above sea level. The Sitka Stream flows through the town.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,019
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,970
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,715
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,689
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,611
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,547
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,366
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,343

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2026-04-09
  1 km WNW of Radlin, 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 2.8 — 2023-01-12
  2 km ENE of Karviná, Czechia
• M 3.9 — 2019-01-22
  0 km W of Jejkowice, Poland
• M 3.2 — 2008-12-04
  1 km SW of Doubrava, Czechia