What is "rejchartice"

Rejchartice is a village and municipality ( obec) in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. The name origin is connected with German personal name Reichard (Czech phonetic transcripction: Rejchart). The oldest note about the village comes from 1350 appearing in a list of vicarages belonging to Litomyšl bishopric. The settlement is situated in a glen of Hanušovická vrchovina along Rejchartický potok creek. Number of inhabitants was 595 people in 1930, 584 Sudeten Germans and 11 Czechs. Sudeten Germans were expulsed in 1945. Renaissance church from 1643 was Baroque rebuilt in 1770.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 186 (as at 3 July 2006).

Rejchartice lies approximately north of Šumperk, north of Olomouc, and east of Prague.