Hradec nad Moravicí Town Hall.
The settlement of Hradec nad Moravicí is ancient, as evidenced by the findings associated with the people of the funnel cup culture from about 3000 to 2700 BC, and documents associated with the people of garbage fields from the period 800 to 600 BC. The beginnings of Christianity are mentioned in an undocumented legend for the year 965, when the Slavs had their fortified settlement here on the watchtower, enclosed by the Moravice River and the Hradečná stream.
The past of the town of Hradec nad Moravicí is closely connected with the history of the medieval aristocratic castle (see the chateau). Sometime in the middle of the 11th century, the Přemyslids built their princely castle in the central part of the promontory. Hradec became not only the cultural and administrative center of the Opava region, but was at this time a significant border fortress, which also withstood the attacks of Polish Prince Boleslav II. Bold.
From at least 1078, the local fortified settlement also guarded the busy trade route from Moravia through the Oderské vrchy to Poland, and tolls and customs duties of 6 denarii were collected below Hradec.
Around the middle of the 13th century, the older princely castle was generously rebuilt into a massive Romanesque-Gothic castle of the Přemyslids, which, after the death of Přemysl Otakar II. in the years 1279-1281 it became a refuge for Queen Kunhuta.
The town of Hradec was located in the area in front of the castle, first with thirteen and soon nineteen homesteads. The town of Podolí, lying at the foot of the promontory, was often counted as a suburb as a suburb, also called the Lower Town - in contrast to the Upper Town (Hradec).