Příbor

Příbor lies on the Lubina in the Moravian foothills. Count Frank von Hückeswagen founded the town in 1251, placing its square on an old trade route to Poland and building a castle nearby. Its foundation was confirmed that year by the Moravian margrave Ottokar II. The count's descendants held Příbor until 1359, when it passed to the bishops of Olomouc. Among them, Franz von Dietrichstein granted the town a number of privileges.

During the Thirty Years' War Příbor burned three times, most destructively when Swedish troops invaded in 1643. The town recovered in the second half of the seventeenth century. In 1694 the Piarists established a gymnasium where poorer children could also receive an education. The school helped Příbor develop into an important centre of learning in northeastern Moravia.