The municipality is situated 10 km in south west of the town Lanškroun. The first written reference to the village dates back to 1307. The village is the smallest independent village in the Ústí nad Orlicí district, the total population is 69 in 24 houses. The St. Anne’s Chapel is worth of seeing. On the village square there is the Municipal office, food shop and cultural centre. In the middle of the village there is a pond filled by the spring water. Above the village there is a water reservoir that supplies water to the region. The village is situated below wooded hills that are perfect for hiking – during summer holidays the scout camps and meetings are held here.
Detailed information (adapted from the source "Vlastivěda Lanškrounska"): The village of Trpík, the smallest independent municipality in the region situated 8 km in south of the town of Lanškroun, is spread along a small right tributary to the brook Lukovský potok. The first reference to the village of Trpík (Tirpings) dated back to 1304 is in a deed issued by the king Václav II by which the king donated the entire Lanškroun region to the Zbraslav monastery. Both layout and purely German origin of the name of the village prove that the village was founded by German colonists during the medieval colonisation. The period following the death of the king Václav III was very difficult for local inhabitants. The last king of the Premysliden dynasty was killed in the city of Olomouc in 1306 and the country lacked a strong sovereign. The villages in the Lanškroun and Lanšperk regions were plundered by squires. The situation did not change during the reign of Jan Lucemburský, called the king foreigner. He himself did not hesitate to use the property of Zbraslav monks to solve his financial problems. He simply took the local monasterial domain away from the Cistercian monks and he pledged it in favour of his creditors. Moreover, local squires took advantage of his absence in the kingdom and plundered the region. The king Jan Lucemburský held the Zbraslav monastery for the last time in 1335. He restored the property of Cistercian monks, but, in turn, he forced the monks to pay him 1600 guldens. He probably separated villages of Trpík and Kozínoha (today Květná) from the Lanškroun region and he pledged them in favour of Otta z Tannenfeldu. Upon an order of Charles IV the Zbraslav monastery acquired them in 1350. Shortly after, the Zbraslav monks decided to exchange their domain for properties nearer to Prague owned by the Litomyšl bishop. After lengthy negotiations, an agreement was reached and the confirmed by the Papal curia. The list of villages in the Lanškroun region acquired by the Litomyšl bishop does not include Trpík and Kozínoha. The Zbraslav monastery kept them, and several other villages, and sold them to the local squires. In 1372 both villages were owned by Jindřich z Brandýsa who had its seat in Libchava. He sold the hereditary reeve’s office to the reeve of the village of Trpík. According to the deed issued by Jindřich z Brandýsa, so called handfest, the reeve’s office included many properties and privileges: four independent rods of grounds and eight rods of grounds subjected to taxation with eight tributary harvesters, wood, mill and three rods of grounds, independent tavern and weighing scale. The independent reeve had his own craftsmen – butcher, baker, tailor and smith. In addition to that he kept a third of all imposed fines. On the other hand, he had to pay 20 groschens to his suzerain and collect the payments from villagers. In 1402 Jindřich z Brandýsa sold the village of Trpík and the village of Kozínoha to the Augustinian monastery which had been founded in Lanškroun in 1371. The village of Trpík remained in hands of monks until the Hussite wars. In 1421 the imminent danger made the Augustinian monks leave the town of Lanškroun for the city of Olomouce where they stayed permanently. They claimed the ownership of the properties in the Lanškroun region, however, in vain. Their ownership claims, including villages Trpík and Květná, were confirmed by a deed issued by the king Jiří z Poděbrad in 1460, but former bishop property, including monastery villages, remained in hands of aristocracy. Since the 15th century, the history of the village Trpík was identical to the history of other villages in the Lanškroun region. In the 16th century the village of Trpík became part of the Damníkov parish district. After the Bílá hora (White Mountain) battle the village was administrated (in religious matters) from the town of Lanškroun for several decades. In 1677 the rectory in the village of Damníkov was re-established and the village of Trpík included into its parish district. A hundred years later, the inhabitants of the village of Trpík managed to have an independent parish chaplaincy established (in 1760). Three years later, they built on their own costs a Baroque St. Anne’s chapel that was consecrated in 1776. The village’s cemetery was founded in 1886. In the second half of the 19th century the efforts for opening an independent school were crowned by success (until 1850 the village of Trpík belonged to the Damníkov school district). Since 1851 children were taught in rented classrooms. The proper school building was constructed between 1867 and 1872. The population was around 300 (at the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century). After the post-war expulsion of Germans, the village was repopulated by the persons coming from upland. However, the total population was lower. The electrification of the village was carried out in 1950. The local national school was closed in 1962 (the number of pupils was too low, although the children from the village of Květná were commuting to the village of Trpík). The nearest grammar school is 3 km far away – in the village of Damníkov. The list of monuments in the village includes the already mentioned Baroque St. Anne’s chapel (1763) a stone cross (around 1770) and two farms (house no. 1 and no. 59) that are examples of original architecture. There used to be the brigade of voluntary firemen (Feuerwehverein) founded in 1888. The current population of the village of Trpík is 68 (in 24 houses). There is a food shop and five small businesses in the village.
German name: Türpes
