Česká Třebová

Česká Třebová is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic, home to about 15,000 inhabitants and widely known as a railway junction. It lies on the Třebovka River in the Svitavy Uplands, about 8 kilometres south of Ústí nad Orlicí and 49 kilometres southeast of Pardubice, below the hill Palice at 613 metres. The name Třebová comes from an Old Czech verb meaning to chop down or clear, a reference to settlements founded where forest had to be cleared, and the prefix česká, meaning Bohemian, distinguishes it from Moravská Třebová. The town was founded in the second half of the thirteenth century under King Ottokar II as a planned town with a regular ground plan and a rectangular square, and its first written mention dates from 1278. The railways from Prague to Olomouc in 1845 and from Brno in 1849 brought new jobs and people. The locomotive maker CZ LOKO and the radiator maker Korado are the main employers, and the historic centre is protected as an urban monument zone.