- summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) Area 19.37 km² | Elevation 233 m Local time Saturday 6:34 AM | |
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Weather 4°C, Wind SW at 14 km/h, 79% Humidity Points of interest Schloss Kravaře, Koutské a Zábřežské louky, Odkryv v Kravařích | ||
Kravaře ( [ˈkravar̝ɛ]; German: Deutsch Krawarn) is a town in Silesia in the Czech Republic. It has 6,650 inhabitants. It is located between Ostrava (20 kilometres (12 mi) away) and Opava (10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away). It is part of the Hlučínsko micro-region.
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Map of Krava%C5%99e, Czechia
History of the town
The first historical record of Kravaře is from 1224. For centuries Kravaře was only a village; it gained town status in 1960.
Being located in the multi-ethnic Hlučín Region of Czech Silesia, Kravaře was a notable exception to the mass Expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia following World War II, retaining a sizeable ethnic German community. As of 2006, ethnic Germans were a majority of the town's inhabitants, one of them being its mayor.
Sport
There is an ice-hockey venue Buly Aréna, which was opened in 2003. The town's football team is SK Kravaře.