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Luze, Czech Republic

Chrudim okres, Pardubice region

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by Jarig Bakker, 11 May 2004
adopted 25 Nov 2003

Luže municipality flag
Luže CoA

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Luže municipality flag

Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí ČR (2003) - Luže, Chrudim district, Pardubice region - adopted 25 Nov 2003.
Luže is situated 130 km eastward of Prague, 22 km eastward of Chrudim and 15 km southward of Vysoke Myto. Luže was founded on the right side of the river Olsinka (Novohradka, Kamenice), on the boundary of the wooded Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and fertile Labe's lowland.
An older settlement appeared here as early as in the 12th century. The first evidence about Luže has been dated from the year 1250 when it raised from the coupling of the older settlement of Kamenicza and the newly founded townlet of Luža. The first direct reference has been come from 1349 in context of an award of the church to newly founded Litomysl's bishopric. In the document dated from 1372 it has been a mention that Luža (Luže) had been the centre of trades, business and farming.
History of the settlement is intimately bound up with the fate of the Kosumberk castle. At first Luže and neighbouring villages were as a part of the holding of Lords of Chlum and Kosumberk, later of the Slavata family of Chlum and Kosumberk - the important representatives of Protestant aristocracy. In the middle of the 17th century the male line of Lords of Kosumberk became extinct and the new owner of the Kosumberk domain became the Hieserl family thro