Lutyně (Orlová)

Lutyně (Polish: Lutynia, German: Leuten) is a municipal part of Orlová in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.

It was a separate municipality, historically prior to World War II known as Polská Lutyně (Polish: Lutynia Polska, German: Polnischleuten, lit.

The village could have been founded by Benedictine monks from Orlová abbey[5] and also it could be a part of a larger settlement campaign taking place in the late 13th century on the territory of what will be later known as Upper Silesia.

[7] Politically the villages belonged initially to the Duchy of Teschen, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of Piast dynasty.

Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Zaolzie region it was annexed by Poland, administratively organised in Frysztat County of Silesian Voivodeship.