Lutín | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Olomouc |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Olomouc |
Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
Coordinates: | 49.5583°N 17.1358°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1234 |
Area Total Km2: | 8.20 |
Elevation M: | 236 |
Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3234 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal codes |
Postal Code: | 783 42, 783 49 |
Lutín is a municipality and village in Olomouc District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,200 inhabitants.
The village of Třebčín is an administrative part of Lutín.
Lutín is located about 8km (05miles) southwest of Olomouc. It lies in a flat agricultural landscape in the Upper Morava Valley.
The first written mention of Lutín is from 1234. Třebčín was first mentioned in 1131. Until the establishment of an independent municipality in 1850, Lutín was continuously a property of the bishopric and later archbishopric in Olomouc.[2]
Lutín has a tradition of pumpmaking industry. A pumpmaking manufacture was founded here by Ludvík Sigmund in 1868 and later became the biggest producer of pumps in the country. Since 1965, the company has been known as Sigma Lutín.[3] [4] In 1966, the company became a sponsor of the club SK Sigma Olomouc.[5]
The village of Třebčín is located on the railway line Prostějov–Červenka.[6]
There are two protected cultural monuments in the municipality: a late Baroque statue of an angel from the 1730s and the Chapel of Saint Florian from the beginning of the 19th century.[7]