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VillagesThe villages of Pastviny, Studánka and Trojmezí are administrative parts of Hranice.

Hranice is situated in the [[Fichtel Mountains]]. The highest point of the municipal territory is Studánecký vrch, at {{convert|697|m|ft}}. The area is rich onin minor watercourses. The Hranický/Tetterweinbach brook springs in the town and flows through Hranice,. theThe streams Bystřina and Rokytnice form a significant part of the Czech-German border.

The town was probably founded at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. The first unverified mentions of the town comescome from the beginning of the 14th century. The first verified written mention of Hranice dates to 1413, when the town was bought by the [[House of Zedtwitz]].<ref name=historie/> Before that time, Hranice was the property of the [[County of Neipperg|Neipperg]]s. At the end of the 14th century, the Neippergs ran into financial trouble and sold the town. The House of Zedwitz controlled Hranice and the whole region around Aš for almost 500 years.

In the 1930s, a group of [[Sudeten German]] settlers from Hranice emigratedimmigrated intoto [[Chile]] and founded the settlement of [[Puyuhuapi]], where they lived and intermarried with [[Mapuche]]s from [[Chiloé Archipelago]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Puyuhuapi History and Legends|url=https://www.interpatagonia.com/puyuhuapi/historia_i.html|publisher=InterPatagonia|access-date=2022-04-13}}</ref>