[2] It served the German writer Otfried Preußler for naming his famous children's book character of "The Robber Hotzenplotz".

The Osoblaha River flows through the municipality and the Prudnik connects it near the Czech-Polish border.

[5] From 1938 to 1945, Osoblaha was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

Although Osoblaha was the first town in the Czech lands to be liberated, in March 1945, the bitter fighting caused the destruction of 90% of all buildings.

[4] Other monuments are the Baroque cemetery Church of Saint Nicholas built in 1756–1766, and a tiny remnant of the medieval town walls.