Peruc (german: Perutz) is a market town in

Louny District Louny District ( cs, okres Louny) is one of seven districts ('' okres'') located within the Ústí nad Labem Region in the Czech Republic. Its administrative center is the town of Louny. Louny is the largest district in the Ústí nad Labem region ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 2,300 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

The villages of Černochov, Hřivčice, Chrastín, Pátek, Radonice nad Ohří, Stradonice and Telce are administrative parts of Peruc.

Geography

Peruc is located about east of Louny and northwest of

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. It lies in the Lower Ohře Table. The highest point is at above sea level. The Ohře River flows along the northern municipal border.

History

The first written mention of Peruc is from 1170. Until the

Hussite Wars The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, European monarchs loyal to the Cat ...

, the village was owned by the Strahov Monastery, then the owners often changed. The village was looted several times during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (80 ...

. From 1814 to 1945, Peruc was property of the

Thun und Hohenstein The House of Thun und Hohenstein, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Austrian and Bohemian nobility. There is one princely and several comital branches of the family. The princely branch of the family lived at Děčín (Te ...

family. The municipality was promoted to a

market town A market town is a 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 market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

in 1898.

Demographics

Transport

Peruc is located on the railway line Louny– Vrbičany.

Sights

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is among the main landmarks of Peruc. It was built in the Baroque style in 1722–1725. The Peruc Castle was built on the site of an old fortress at the end of the 16th century. The Renaissance building was completely rebuilt in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century. It is a valuable and relatively large rural castle surrounded by a park. The southern wing houses the memorial hall of

Emil Filla Emil Filla (4 April 1882 – 7 October 1953), a Moravian painter, was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter. Early life Filla was born in Chropyně, Moravia, and spent his ch ...

, who lived here, with his paintings. In the castle park is the Museum of the Czech Village, located in a former baroque granary from the end of the 18th century. The 1,000-year-old

Oldřich Oak The Oldřich Oak ( cs, Oldřichův dub), also known as the Prince Oldřich Oak, is a pedunculate oak (''Quercus robur'') tree in Peruc in the Czech Republic that is estimated to be about 1,000 years old. The tree has a height of and a trunk (bota ...

tree is located in Peruc. It has a circumference of and a height of .

Notable people

* Bedřich Schnirch (1791–1868), engineer *

(1882–1953), painter; lived and worked here in 1947–1952

References

External links

* {{authority control Market towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Louny District