page_title: Fulnek
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fulnek / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Austrian KK 5 kreuzer stamp on card fragment, cancelled FULNEK in 1886, Moravia
context_page_description: Fulnek is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, 29 km south from Opava and 40 km west from Ostrava.
context_section_description: The town was created in the time of the big colonisation of northeast Moravia and located near the well known Amber Road, important trading route connecting Mediterranean areas with Baltic sea coasts.
  Through years Fulnek was a manor owned by several noble families. During a period of prosperity, acting of members of Unity of the Brethren provided high development of education. A very important representative was John Amos Comenius, who has spent there three most beautiful years of his life – as he said himself. After the defeat of Bohemian Revolt (in 1621) he had to escape from the town.
  Until 1918, Fulnek was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the Neutitschein - Nový Jičín district, one of the 34 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Moravia.
  In 1938, it was occupied by the Nazi Germany as one of the municipalities in Sudetenland. The German-speaking population was expelled in 1945 (see the Beneš decrees) and replaced by Czech settlers.
caption: Austrian KK 5 kr stamp, German cancelled FULNEK in 1886
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