Eugen Porak

Loučovice Until 1918, the location was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the Bohemian district of Kaplice. A post-office was opened in August 1892, under the name KIENBERG bei HOHENFURTH.[1]

Starting in 1884, entrepreneur Arnošt Porák built a large paper mill here (at its peak it employed around 1,800 workers). Electrified railway built in 1909-11 reached Loučovice . During 1938-45, the area became part of Nazi Germany. After expulsion of German speaking people in 1945