The village was founded around 1540 by Joseph Pňovský Sovinec. During the Thirty Years War, the village was abandoned and was subsequently re-populated. The chapel, which dominates the village, dates from 1759. In 1865 a croft was built for bleaching yarn, which was later extended to dyeing. Shale mining took place in the village. On the SW edge of the village along the local cycling route leading through Mala Morávka and Karlova Studánka up to Praděd. In the SE direction across Břidličná you will reach to the water reservoir Silesian Harta. An interesting walking tour is in a NW direction up the river Moravice floodplain through the Moravice Nature Preserve.
