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At the very beginning of the Hussite century, the life and career of the leading Czech politician and important provincial dignitary Lacko of Kravaře were connected with the Oder. The descendants of his daughter Alžběta, widow of Albrecht of Šternberk and Lukov, owned the Oder throughout the first half of the 15th century and often engaged in battles with Hussite troops on the anti-Hussite side. For the powerful representatives of the Silesian and Moravian estates, the first half of the 15th century represented a period of political pragmatism rather than a time of struggle for the true faith. Frequent switching of sides, changes in political and religious thinking, and decisions motivated by financial circumstances were not an exception. This is also evidenced by the fates of two influential political figures who significantly influenced the development of the region – the Moravian provincial governor Peter of Strážnice and the Duke of Opava, Přemek. Both leading magnates were related to the holder of the Odra estate, Jiří of Šternberk and Lukov, the first as a relative and heir of his grandfather Lacko of Kravař, the second as the father of his wife Anežka, widow of Jan Jičínský. At the end of the 1520s, the city of Odra becomes a refuge for the Hussite garrison under the leadership of the feared hetman Dobeš Puchala, one of the heroes of the novel saga by the Polish novelist Andrzej Sapkowski. In addition to him, the Odra walls also host the main representative of the Hussite political opposition, the “requested king” Sigismund Korybut. The situation on the Odra becomes the subject of negotiations between the leaders of the Catholic party in Moravia and Silesia. The efforts of Přemek Opavský, a representative of the Přemyslid left-wing line, which was waning in power, to return the Oder to the bosom of the Catholic camp were in vain, and as the situation developed, Přemek himself and his son were forced to conclude often disadvantageous and humiliating peace treaties with the Hussites. Přemek's attempt to control the Oder in the early 1530s was stopped by another of the famous Hussite hetmans, Boček Puklice of Pozořice. In the meantime, however, political conditions had changed considerably, and from approximately the second half of the 1530s, but no later than 1437, the Oder came back under the rule of Jiří of Šternberk and in Lukov, the husband of Anežka, the daughter of Duke Přemek, who had died in 1433. A decade later, the brothers Beneš, Jan and Jeroným of Liděřov were already writing themselves as lords of the Oder. The war events certainly changed life in the city and the character of the city's buildings, especially its fortifications. With a small degree of exaggeration, we can say that the landscape at this time was shaped by the steel of Hussite weapons.