| Kobeřice | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Moravian-Silesian |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Opava |
| Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
| Coordinates: | 49.9856°N 18.0522°W |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1234 |
| Area Total Km2: | 17.15 |
| Elevation M: | 247 |
| Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 3204 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 747 27 |
Kobeřice (German: Köberwitz, Polish: Kobierzyce) is a municipality and village in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,200 inhabitants. It is part of the historic Hlučín Region.
The name is probably derived from the personal name Kober or Jakub. According to other theories, it may be derived from the German words Korb ('basket') or Köbler (designation of a small house next to a farmhouse).[2]
Kobeřice is located about 11km (07miles) northeast of Opava and 23km (14miles) northwest of Ostrava. It lies in the Opava Hilly Land. The highest point is at 313m (1,027feet) above sea level. The stream Oldrišovský potok flows through the municipality. The municipal territory briefly borders Poland in the north.
The first written mention of Kobeřice is from 1234, when the village was owned by the Hradisko Monastery in Olomouc.[2] The document that mentioned Kobeřice in 1183 was a forgery from 1236.[3]
From 1742 to 1918, after Empress Maria Theresa had been defeated, the village belonged to Prussia. In 1920, it became part of the newly established Czechoslovakia.
The I/46 road (the section from Opava to the Czech-Polish border in Sudice) passes through the municipality.
The main landmark of Kobeřice is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1896, when it replaced an old wooden church from 1711.[4]