Ústí nad Orlicí (; ) is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 14,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts Town parts of Hylváty, Kerhartice and Knapovec and villages of Černovír, Dolní Houžovec, Horní Houžovec and Oldřichovice are administrative parts of Ústí nad Orlicí. Geography Ústí nad Orlicí is located about east of Pardubice. It is situated at the confluence of the river Tichá Orlice and Třebovka. It lies in the Svitavy Uplands. The highest point of the municipal territory is the hill Strážný, at . Etymology The name Ústí means literally "mouth (of the river)". It refers to its location at the confluence of rivers. The German name Wildenschwert was created by a distortion of the original German name Wilhelmswerd, which referred to one of colonizers on the area, Wilhelm von Dürnholz, and meant "Wilhelm's promontory". History Ústí nad Orlicí was founded in the second half of the 13th century, during the reign of Ottokar II of Bohemia. Its predecessor was a Slavic settlement called Oustí. The first written mention of the town was in 1285, when the King Wenceslaus II gifted the town to Zavis of Falkenstein. In 1292, after Zavis' death, Wenceslaus II gifted the settlement to the Cistercian monks at Königsaal. They passed the town to the Leitomischl bishopric in 1358. During the 15th and 16th centuries, it was owned by various noble families, including was the Kostka of Postupice or the Pernštejn family. The town was damaged by a large fire in 1495. After the Battle of White Mountain, Ústí was acquired by the Liechtenstein family. There were guilds of weavers established here in the 16th century. The town was slow to recover from the lootings of the Thirty Years' War, then was destroyed by fire in 1705. It gained municipal status in 1795. When Wildenschwert was connected to the railway network by the Olomouc – Prague line in 1845, the textile business boomed. It gained the tagline of The Manchester of Eastern Bohemia, and became an important textile centre. It was an important railway junction and from 1850 became a regional centre. It was a German-speaking town in Austria-Hungary until it was allocated to Czechoslovakia in 1918 at the conclusion of the World War I. Ústí nad Orlicí as it was now called remained