Vrbice (Bohumín)

Vrbiceⓘ (Polish: Wierzbicaⓘ, German: Wirbitz) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.

[1] The name of the village comes from the willow tree (Czech: vrba, Polish: wierzba), which grown here in the past in plenty.

It was first mentioned in the document of Pope Gregory IX issued in 1229 among villages belonging to Benedictine abbey in Tyniec, as Wierzbica.

Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed 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.