Hluk

Hluk
Basic data
State :	Czech Republic
Region :	Zlínský kraj
District :	Uherské Hradiště
Area :	2839 ha
Geographic location :	48 ° 59 '  N , 17 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '10 "  N , 17 ° 31' 32"  E
Height:	222  m nm
Residents :	4,340 (Jan 1, 2019)
Postal code :	687 25
License plate :	Z
structure
Status:	city
Districts:	1
administration
Mayor :	Ing.Martin Křižan (as of 2020)
Address:	Hřbitovní 140 687 25 Hluk
Municipality number:	592170
Website :	www.mestohluk.cz

Hluk (German Hulken ) is a town in the Okres Uherské Hradiště in the Czech Republic . It is located 10 km southwest of Uherský Brod on the Okluky river in the Moravian lowlands and belongs to the Zlínský kraj region .

geography

Neighboring towns are Blatnička in the south, Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem and Ostrožská Lhota in the west, Kunovice in the north and Vlčnov and Dolní Němčí in the east.

history

Already in the Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague the settlement Hluk or Latin was Hlucium in the years 1099 and 1116 mentioned. The first documentary mention dates from 1294, at that time the owner was Ulrich II von Neuhaus . After his death, the fief fell back to the Bohemian crown and Wenceslaus II left the place to Zdislav Měšec in 1303. As a result, the rulership changed between different noble families. From 1460 to 1506 these were those of Zástřizly and then those of Kunovice. In 1525 Ludwig II raised Hulken to a market town. In 1625 Gundaker von Liechtenstein acquired the dominions of Hulken and Ostroh . In 1663 and 1683 the Turks looted the place. During the Kuruzenkrieg , Franz II. Rákóczi’s troops raided the town several times in 1703, 1705, 1708 and 1709. But Hulken was not spared from fires either, in 1663, 1709, 1838 and 1857 parts of the village burned down. Until the abolition of patrimonial rule, Hulken remained in the possession of the Liechtenstein family.

In 1970 Hluk was promoted to town.

Attractions

The Hluk fortress

• Veste Hluk, verifiable since 1303, is the city's cultural center with the Bauernstube museum .
• St. Laurentius Church, built from 1736 to 1741 by Anton Erhard Martinelli
• The chapel on the hill Babí hora (335 m) to the southeast of the town has its origins in the Marterl that reminded of two battles in 1116 and 1421. It was built in 1525.
• Several monuments of rural folk architecture from the 17th to the middle of the 20th century have been preserved in the town. There are also historical wine cellars.
• The traditional ride of the kings takes place every three years

Personalities

• František Kožík , writer, described the Hluk fortress in his novel "Na dolinách svítá"
• Antonín Zelnitius, teacher and archaeologist
• František Omelka , writer
• Käthe Odwody , unskilled worker, works councilor and resistance fighter
• Dominik Černý (* 1903 in Chrlice (now Brno , Czechoslovakia ), † 1973 in Hluk), painter and art teacher, studied teaching in Brno, art teacher in South Moravia, ethnographic studies, kept the local folk costumes in his pictures, closed himself under the German occupation joined the resistance, was deported to Auschwitz in October 1942 and painted commissioned works for the SS in the so-called camp museum . In August 1943 he was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp , Dora subcamp . After the liberation in April 1945 he created the woodcut series Oswientim (1951) and KL Dora-Sangerhausen (1953)
• Jan Smital, painter
• František Hořínek, teacher and chronicler

literature

• František Hořínek: Slovácké městečko Hluk. Nákladem obce Hluku a Rolnické záložny hlucké, Hluk 1937.

Web links

Commons : Hluk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• http://www.mestohluk.cz/
• Veste Hluk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Český statistický úřad - The population of the Czech municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (PDF; 7.4 MiB)
2. ↑ Brochure from the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, artist biographies from 2013