Doubrava (Polish: Dąbrowaⓘ, German: Dombrau) is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
It lies in the Ostrava Basin lowland in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The first written mention of Doubrava is in a document of Pope Gregory IX issued in 1229 among villages belonging to Benedictine abbey in Tyniec, as Dubrowa.
[2][4] Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and Castellany of Cieszyn, which was ruled by a local branch of Piast dynasty.
In 1573 it was sold as one of a dozen villages and the town of Freistadt and formed a state country split from the Duchy of Teschen.
Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Trans-Olza region it was annexed by Poland, administratively organised in Frysztat County of Silesian Voivodeship.
[8] The village was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II.
Living conditions in Doubrava deteriorated during the Communist era as a result of extensive coal mining.