Buchlovice (german: Buchlowitz) is a market town in

Uherské Hradiště District Uherské Hradiště District ( cs, okres Uherské Hradiště) is a district (''okres'') within the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Uherské Hradiště. List of municipalities Babice - Bánov - Bílovice - Bojkovic ...

in the

Zlín Region Zlín Region ( cs, Zlínský kraj; , ) is an administrative unit ( cs, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the south-eastern part of the historical region of Moravia. It is named after its capital Zlín. Together with the Olomouc Region it fo ...

of the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. Th ...

. It has about 2,400 inhabitants.

Geography

Buchlovice is located about west of

Uherské Hradiště Uherské Hradiště (; german: Ungarisch Hradisch, hu, Magyarhradis) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 24,000 inhabitants. The agglomeration with the two neighbouring towns of Staré Město and Kunovice has over ...

and southwest of

Zlín Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; ; german: Zlin) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 73,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Zlín Region and it lies on the Dřevnice river. It is known as an industrial centre. The development of th ...

. It lies on the border between the

Chřiby Chřiby (german: Marsgebirge, the "Mars Mountains") is a geographic region of the Czech Republic, part of the Central Moravian Carpathians of the Outer Western Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian m ...

highlands and

Kyjov Hills The Kyjov Hills ( cs, Kyjovská pahorkatina) is an area in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. These relatively modest hills and undulating plateaus form a part of the Central Moravian Carpathians, within the Outer Western Carpath ...

. The highest point of the municipal territory is the hill Holý kopec, at . The streams Dlouhá řeka and Buchlovický flows through the municipality. Dlouhá řeka supplies the Sovín Reservoir, located south of the built-up area.

History

The first written mention of Buchlovice is from 1207 in a deed of

Ottokar I of Bohemia Ottokar I ( cs, Přemysl Otakar I.; c. 1155 – 1230) was Duke of Bohemia periodically beginning in 1192, then acquired the title of King of Bohemia, first in 1198 from Philip of Swabia, later in 1203 from Otto IV of Brunswick and in 1212 (a ...

. The

Buchlov Buchlov (german: Buchlau) is a royal castle in Buchlovice in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic It is located on an eponymous hill with an elevation of within the Chřiby mountain range. History The castle was built approximately in the f ...

castle was first mentioned in 1300. In 1540, Buchlov was bought by the Lords of

Zierotin The House of Žerotín or House of Zierotin was a Czech noble family in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, one of the oldest and most illustrious noble families from Bohemia and Moravia. The family was first mentioned around the year 1200 as ''B ...

and joined to the Buchlov estate. In 1805, the village was promoted by Emperor Francis II to a

market town A market town is a Human settlement, settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular marketplace, market; this distinguished it from a village or ...

Sights

Buchlovice is known for the baroque Buchlovice Castle in the centre of Buchlovice, and for the

Castle on the eponymous hill above the market town.

Notable people

Friedrich von Berchtold Count Friedrich Carl Eugen Vsemir von Berchtold, baron von Ungarschitz ( cz, Bedřich Karel Eugen Všemír Berchtold hrabě z Uherčic; 25 October 1781 – 3 April 1876), was a German-speaking Bohemian physician and botanist from Austrian descent ...

(1781–1876), Austrian botanist; died here * Jiří Hanák (1938–2020), journalist, editor,

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...

signatory

References

External links

* Populated places in Uherské Hradiště District Market towns in the Czech Republic {{Zlín-geo-stub