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HLUBOCEC
is village in former Opava district,in Silesia,Czech Republic.In 07.03.2006 it had 553 inhabitants.{| class="wikitable" border="1"

Geografy Hlubocec is situated in eastern part of Nizky Jesenik highland,which is elevated plateau,ranging in 400m to 530 m above sea level.Hill Hurka (530m) is the highest point in Hlubocec and also highest point in whole area.There used to be wooden lookout tower,nowadays there is 70m high antena.In southern part of Hlubocec is flowing Setina creek from west to east,which is entering river Odra NE of Bilovec.Southeastern valley of Setina is lowest point of Hlubocec 365 m a.s.l.There is a glacial erratic in front of town hall which was found in the vicinity.The village itself is on southern slope of Hurka.The village is surrounded by forests except from the east.From above village is beautiful view of Beskydy range,Moravska brana valley and Ostrava city.Western slopes of Hurka hill descent into picturesque valley of Radunka creek.Radunka creek valley is completely forested all the way to Radun village.

Climate Area has temperate climate with four seasons,warm summers with occasional thunderstorms, early fall starts around mid September. In general because of higher elevation there is slightly higher precipitation (750mm/year) then in surrounding Opava and Odra lowlands (around 650mm/year).Also it is more exposed to prevailing southwestern winds.Those were harvested by many windmills in the old days.

History
Nizky Jesenik highlands were heavily forested so it was colonized much later then surrounding lowlands.Pusta Polom to the east was first mentioned in 1238,but Hlubocec not until 1486.Name came probably from its founder- Mr.Hlubotecky .There are also speculation that it comes from position "deep in forest",in czech language 'hluboky' means 'deep'. Southwest of Hlubocec in the forest named 'Oblesek' used to stand small settlement called 'Machno' with about 4 buildings.There was a intention to built railroad from Ostrava to Vitkov wchich would lead through Hlubocec.This railroad was built only to settlement Zatisi,7km east. Local voluntary firefighter squad was established in 1885,one of first in Czech Silesia. Population was growing until 1910 to 1928 years ,when Hlubocec was home to almost 800 people.In WWII it did not escaped damage from fights in last weeks of war between Red Army and Wehrmacht.After war came gray comunist era ,private land was forcibly put to use for socialistic cooperative farms.Hlubocec become administratively become satellite of Pusta Polom.After fall of socialism and referendum it became self governed village again.In recent years there is new homes build not only by locals but also people from elsewhere who prefer small clean settlements from big towns. In 1985 small tornado (F1-F2) passed through southern end and severely damaged many homes and buildings,cars and trees.One injury was reported.

Economy
Mostly forestry and agriculture-grains,potatoes,poultry,hogs,beef

Famous people
Viteslav Dostal is local who is famous for riding around the world on bicycle (1994-1997).Every year there is cycling race organized by him.

Facilities
There is one small convenient store,one pub and one bistro.For sports there is soccer field and smaller hard surface field. Village has electric,watter,waste watter and natural gas grid. Hard surface roads leads to Opava 12km north,Ostrava 25km east,Bilovec 11km south and Hradec nad Moravici 9 km west.

Areas
Forest 500 ha,arable land 323ha,grass land 51ha,water 2,6ha,built up area 11ha,other 32ha.

Matters of interest in the area
4km west near Jakubcovice are remains of fortifications from Austria-Hungary- Prussia wars.On the north end of Jakubcovice is new wooden lookout tower.West of Jakubcovice and north of Skripov are remains of not finished railroad Opava-Fulnek ,being built 1870-1872. In Setinacreek valley 4km southeast is 30m long gallery with dome at the end.

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status:	obec region (NUTS 3):	Moravskoslezský (CZ080) district (NUTS 4):	Opava (CZ0805) historic country:	Silesia total area:	9,35 km² inhabitans:	553 (3. 7. 2006) latitude:	49° 50’ 11’’ longitude:	17° 58’ 3’’ avarage elevation:	441 m zip code:	747 69

town hall address:	Hlubočec 95 74769 Pustá Polom mayor:	Jiří Najvert Official web: http://www.hlubocec.cz/ E-mail: obec@hlubocec.cz Zdroje k infoboxu a částem obce