Luhacovice is first mentioned in a historical document of 1412. It is, however, supposed to have been founded before the year 1287. At the end of the 16th century Luhacovice became the chief townlet of a manor including 12 villages. In the years 1626-1945 the manor and later the country estate belonged to the Serenyi family; they were also the first who started to make use of the mineral springs in the area and who set out to building the spa. Local names give evidence that the springs were known and used here ever since the area had begun to be settled; they are first mentioned in the book Tartaro Mastix Moraviae by Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Totenfeld, which was published in 1669.
A new stage of development of both the spa and the town appears at the beginning of the 20th century when a Czech doctor, Frantisek Vesely, M.D., came to Luhacovice. He decided to get financial means to change Luhacovice into a modern Czech spa by establishing a joint-stock company, which took over the spa from the control of the Serenyis in 1902. They, however, kept on taking a significant part in it financially. The remote and not easily accessible position of the spa was overcome definitely when a local railway line was built here in the year 1904; even before the number of visitors increased due to the construction of the Vlárská Railway Line (1888) and rather more distant Northern Railway Line (1841).The first stage of important building development of the spa area is connected with the name of the ancient Dušan Jurkovic, the author of the fundamental reconstruction of the Janův House, the hydropathic establishment and other places.
After the setting-up of the independent Czechoslovak Republic, mainly in the 20s and 30s, the importance of the Luhacovice spa increased together with an increasing number of inhabitants, which was also formally expressed by giving to Luhacovice the statute of the municipality in the year 1936. Further buildings of architectural
