Heřmanovice: Hotels and Accommodation

Heřmanovice combines a mountain and water landscape with religious buildings, protected village architecture and impressive traces of historical mining. The village and its surroundings therefore offer various starting points for a winter trip to a landscape full of character.

Landscape and Nature

The Opavice forms the axis of Heřmanovice. The river flows in a south-easterly direction and rises above the northern end of the village on the south-western slope of Příčný vrch at an altitude of 850 metres. Its length within the cadastral area is 35.7 kilometres; the long-term average discharge measured in Heřmanovice is 0.23 m³/s.

Around 600 metres west of the northern edge of Heřmanovice lies the Heřmanovice European Site of Community Importance. It covers 18.6922 hectares and protects the Carpathian newt (Triturus montandoni). At the same time, it is one of the three most important occurrences of this newt species in the Sudeten region.

Příčný vrch is located in the vicinity of Heřmanovice. The mountains Zámecký vrch, Zámecký pahorek and Ďablův Kopec are also located nearby.

The ruins of Edelštejn are located in the vicinity of Heřmanovice. In the wider regional surroundings are the ruins of Cvilin and the Studánka church.

Mining History

Vysoká pec Drakov preserves the remains of a charcoal furnace dating from 1807. The surviving structure measures 15 × 8 metres, is built of stone and has a barrel-vaulted end. Opposite are the remains of a water channel.

Důl Žebračka is a mining heritage complex consisting of spoil heaps, adits and shafts on the eastern slope of Příčný vrch near the road to Zlaté Hory. Důl Karel is a medieval mine on the upland of Příčný vrch in the Hackelsberg mining district and lies within the cadastral areas of Heřmanovice and Horní Údolí. This mine includes a 60-metre-long adit, a hand-hewn 40-metre-long shaft and two blind shafts with wooden pipework.

Culture and Architectural Heritage

The parish church of Saint Andrew was built in 1588, remodelled and extended in the Baroque style in 1739, and reconsecrated in 1766. It has a late Renaissance stone baptismal font with coloured reliefs of Saint Andrew and scenes from the life of Christ. The church stands on a slope in the centre of Heřmanovice and is surrounded by a wall with an original gate enclosing the former cemetery.

Heřmanovice’s protected village architecture includes single-storey log houses of the Eastern Sudeten type, with steep gable roofs and stone plinths.

The Chapel of Saint Jerome stands above the limestone quarry. Following restoration, it was reconsecrated on 28 September 1997.

Route Around the Village

The Czech-Polish border route Opavice is one of the marked cycling routes that can be used for bike trips around Heřmanovice.

More village pages: Moravskoslezský Kočov, Cakova, Svetla Hora, Janov U Krnova, Dolni Moravice, Dolní Václavov, Karlovice, Jindřichov Ve Slezsku.

To the higher-level travel overview: Okres Bruntál.