Uherský Brod
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Key facts
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Region
- Zlín
- District
- Uherské Hradiště
- Mayor
- Miroslava Poláková
- Total
- 52.06 km (20.10 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 251 m (823 ft)
- Density
- 312.7/km (809.9/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 687 34, 688 01
- Website
- www .ub .cz
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Uherský Brod
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 16367
- Area
- 52.063309
- Elevation
- 251
- Shares border with
- Luhačovice
- Headquarters
- Uherský Brod
- Legal form
- municipality of the Czech Republic
- Official website
- www.ub.cz
- Image
- Ungarisch-Brod-3.jpg
- Licence plate code
- Z
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- Commons category
- Uherský Brod
- twinned administrative body
- Nové Mesto nad Váhom
- postal code
- 688 02
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Uherský Brod
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Uherský Brod
- topic's main category
- Category:Uherský Brod
- Commons gallery
- Uherský Brod
- time of earliest written record
- 1048-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- native label
- Uherský Brod
- historical region
- Moravia
- different from
- Brod
- number of houses
- 2854
- inception
- 1945-04-26
- mean age
- 44.1
- P8168
- Moúresi
- number of viewers/listeners
- 404806
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Encyclopedic overview
Uherský Brod ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈuɦɛrskiː ˈbrot]; German: Ungarisch Brod) is a town in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Vizovice Highlands on the Olšava River.
The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. The main landmarks of the town centre are the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Uherský Brod is known as the place where the philosopher and pedagogue John Amos Comenius lived, and the town museum and secondary school bear his name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uherský Brod” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.