Uherský Brod

town in the Czech Republic

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
Population: 16367
Area: 52.063309
Elevation: 251
Official website: www.ub.cz
Image: Ungarisch-Brod-3.jpg
Licence plate code: Z

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Commons category: Uherský Brod
postal code: 688 02
Commons gallery: Uherský Brod
time of earliest written record: 1048-01-01
email address: mailto:[email protected]
native label: Uherský Brod
number of houses: 2854
inception: 1945-04-26
mean age: 44.1
P8168: Q624386
number of viewers/listeners: 404806

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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.