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Brumov-Bylnice (Czech Republic)

Zlin okres, Zlin region

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by Jarig Bakker, 17 Nov 2003
adopted 14 Mar 2002

Brumov-Bylnice municipality flag
Brumov-Bylnice CoA

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Brumov-Bylnice municipality flag

Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí Čr (2002) - Brumov-Bylnice, Zlin district, Zlin region - adopted 14 Mar 2002.
In a valley of the White Carpathians, amidst the marvelous Wallachian landscape with its rich folk traditions, lies the town of Brumov-Bylnice (330 m above sea-level, pop. 6,200), the "fortress of Wallachia", about 7 km south of Valašské Klobouky, on the creek Brumovka. As early as the 13th century, 3 fishponds had already been established there. King Vladislav II Jagelonský made Brumov a town in 1500.
In 1573 a brewery was founded below the castle, in which beer is still brewed today. New houses were added to the estate below the castle, which became known as "The Lord´s houses". The former Gattermayer water mill also survives. In 1965 Brumov was merged with the nearby town of Bylnice. The town is dominated by the ruins of an originally Romanesque castle, founded before 1250, then renovated in the mid-1500´s as a massive fortress in the Renaissance style.
The castle had been owned directly by the king until the mid-14th century as in important regional strongpoint guarding the Vlárský Pass. In 1271 it resisted the raids of the Tartars, in the 15th century it was taken by the Hussites, and in the 17th and early 18th centuries reacquired military sign