Jeseník (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɛsɛɲiːk]; Frývaldov until 1947 (Czech pronunciation: [ˈfriːvaldof]), German: Freiwaldau, Polish: Frywałdów) is a spa town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic, the administrative capital of Jeseník District. It has about 11,000 inhabitants.
The town is located in the historic Czech Silesia region on the Bělá River, a tributary of the Nysa Kłodzka. It is situated within the Hrubý Jeseník mountain range, north of the Praděd peak. In the west are the foothills of the Golden Mountains.
Freiwaldau/Frývaldov/Frywałdów in the Duchy of Silesia in fragmented Piast-ruled Poland, probably founded in the course of the German Ostsiedlung, was first mentioned in 1267, when it already held the status of a town belonging to the territory of the Bishops of Wrocław. With the surrounding villages it became part of the bishops' ecclesiastical Duchy of Nysa in 1290, which later on passed under Bohemian (Czech) suzerainty.
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