Moravská Třebová
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Moravská Třebová (IPA: [ˈmorafska: ˈtr̝̊ɛbova:]; German: Mährisch Trübau) is a town of the district of Svitavy and lies in the region of Pardubice, Czech Republic. It is located at around . It has 11.300 inhabitants.
Moravská Třebová is located on the Třebůvka (German: Mährische Triebe) in the landscape of the "Schönhengstgau". It was the largest German linguistic enclave within Bohemia and Moravia. Some locations were just some kilometers apart from the other German-speaking areas. Untill the expulsion of the Germans in 1945/46 it was exclusively inhabited by German population. Between 1850 and 1960 Moravská Třebová has been a district town.
Town development
Part of the town of Moravská Třebová are the incorperated villages of Borsǒv (Porstendorf), Sušise (Tschuschitz) and Udánky (Undangs)
Partner cities
• Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
• Staufenberg, Germany
• Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Well-known sons or sisters of the town
• Ludwig(Lewis) Vincent Holzmaister, an emigrant to the US - achieved prosperity and donated the former "Holzmaister-Museum"
• Gerhard Pieschl, suffragan of Limburg
• Walther Hensel, music researcher
• Gert Wilden, well known composer and conductor
• Franz Spina , Dr.,Professor in Prague , minister of the Czechoslovakia republic
• Karl Giskra, Dr.jur. delegate 1848 to the German National Assembly, k.u.k. minister
• Alois Czerny ,native country researcher
