The village of Leština got its name from the place
overgrown with polish - i.e. by a group of wild hazel bushes. It is one of the medium-sized villages of the Olomouc Region. It lies about 4 km east of the town of Zábřeha, in the northernmost part of the Hornomoravské úval, on the left bank of the Morava River at the foot of the Benkovský spur of the Hrabišín branch of the Hrubé Jeseník.
Approximately 1, 260 inhabitants live in Leština.
The village of Leština is mentioned in historical sources from the 14th century, although its origin is undoubtedly older. These records are from 1392, a slightly older record refers to the present-day part of Zálavčí (1371). However, this settlement merged with Leština very soon.
In the second half of the 15th century, the Tunkl family built an ingenious system of several ponds in the vicinity. From the following century, we have reports of a free lordship here; At that time, the almost abandoned Zálavčí belonged to the jurisdiction of the Leština foyt. Leština was located on an important road, because a bridge was built here over the Morava River, on which tolls were already collected in the 16th century.
Thanks to its location, Leština recovered relatively quickly even from the hardships of the Thirty Years' War, and after 1670 it was almost entirely repopulated. The new owners of the Zábřež manor bought the rychta and turned it into a pub, and next to it they built a mill and an oil mill next to the river. In the following centuries, the village prospered happily, especially when in the first half of the 19th century it acquired additional fertile land in place of the dried up ponds. On the other hand, it suffered from frequent floods from the flooded Morava. In 1754, the chapel of St. Wenceslas.
Currently, the municipality has available building plots of 800-1000 m2, the price per 1 m2 is 380 CZK including utility networks.