Lesní Hluboké is a municipality and village in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Geography

Lesní Hluboké is located about west of

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

. It lies in the

Křižanov Highlands The Křižanov Highlands ( cs, Křižanovská vrchovina, german: Krischanauer Bergland) is a highland and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Vysočina Region. Geomorphology The Křižanov Highlands i ...

. The highest point is at above sea level. The village is situated on an elevated plateau above the valleys of the streams Bílý potok and Přibyslavický potok, which flow along the northern municipal border.

History

The first written mention of Lesní Hluboké is in a deed of King

Wenceslaus IV Wenceslaus IV (also ''Wenceslas''; cs, Václav; german: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; 26 February 136116 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he w ...

from 1395. Silver and iron ore were mined in the area.

Demographics

Transport

The D1 motorway from Prague to Brno passes through the municipality.

Sights

The main landmark of the municipality is the Lesní Hluboké Castle with the Chapel of Saint Anne. It was built in the late Baroque style in 1770. The castle was built by the then-owner of Lesní Hluboké, the monastery in Rajhrad, and was originally used as a hunting lodge and the seat of the administration of the surrounding forests. In 1884, the building was reconstructed and since then it has served as a summer recreation facility for Benedictine monks. The properties of the monastery were confiscated by the state in 1948. In 2015, the castle was returned to the Benedictine community in Rajhrad. A cultural monument is a set of nine wooden crosses. They commemorate the mass murder of the wedding party from 1540, committed by a disgraced veteran of the Ottoman wars.

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