Lutz

Lutz Capital City of Lutz Hlavné Štád fo Lutz Hlavnsko
Capital and metropolitan area
Lutz City Hall, street performers, the Kunstmuseum, the Dumont department store, the Rouge-Rendezvous cabaret theater, the Old Bridge over the River Váh
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Nickname(s): Athens of the Alps, Paris of the East
Motto(s): Tapferkeit in Kande (Middle High German: Fortitude in Candor) Tu to je! (Srovian: This is it!)
Country	Zubrowka
Region	Lutz Region
First mentioned	1208
Royal charter	1308
Capital status	1436
Named for	Ludvik I
Elevation	345 m (1,132 ft)
Population (2016)
• Total	290,000
Website	lutz.com

Lutz, officially the Capital City of Lutz (Zubrowkan: ns. Hlavne Shtad fo Lutz: os. Hlavné Štád fo Lutz), informally also known as Hlavnsko is the capital and most populous city of Zubrowka. It is the largest city on the River Váh, and the seventh-largest Central European capital city; it has a population of 290,000, and its combined-metro-area with Trentschin of Povaschia and St. Martin of Fatra covers nearly half the population of Zubrowka. It is considered a primate city, being three-times larger than the second largest city of Trentschin.

Despite its comparatively small size, Lutz is considered an international hub for Central European culture, including fashion, art, architecture, literature, performing arts, queer culture, and music. Renowned for its bohemian prominence, contributions to café society, venerable academic institutions, and preserved historic Beaux-Arts cityscape, Lutz has remained a strong multicultural core closely tied to its historical position as the center of the former Zubrowkan Empire, the easternmost city of the Holy Roman Empire, and its prominence under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is the educational, financial, and cultural capital of Zubrowka, being home to several universities, venues, landmarks, castles, museums, and monuments. All branches of the government, including the ten departments' headquarters, are located in Lutz.

The area surrounding Lutz was settled during the late Stone Age (20,000 BC), whilst Slavic tribes settled the area in the 5th century. The town remained comparatively small throughout the first 100 years of the Kingdom of Zubrowka. In 1308 it was officially established through royal charter under the name Sylna, and in 1436, Emperor Ludvik I moved the capital from the larger and geographically exposed Trentschin, to the more isolated Lutz, further upstream on the River Váh. In honor of this distinction, the town was renamed to Lutzstat, Middle High German for "Ludvik's town", which was eventually shortened to just Lutz. As a vassal state to the Holy Roman Empire, the city was provided a comparatively high status despite its small size, this due to its position as the easternmost city in the Empire. Lutz benefited from its position as capital of the Zubrowkan Empire, as it received much investment from the Imperial Crown, with strong transport links established with the rest of the Holy Roman Empire and the smaller Zubrowkan Empire. The city's strategic protection from outside military forces ensured stability in its capital status. During the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city remained prized as an important city for projecting control over the notoriously lawless Carpathians. Lutz garnered a reputation for decadence and debauchery during the brief independence of Zubrowka under the interwar period, similar to the Parisian Années folles. The Nazi German occupation between 1399 and 1944 saw the city experience a series of violent uprisings by Srovian partisans. Lutz's radiant reputation as capital for intellectualism suffered under Czechoslovak rule, but the city remained an important sanctuary for the intelligentsia of Czechoslovakia, in part due to its geographic isolation and relatively small population compared to Prague and Bratislava; this rendered it somewhat less politically and culturally repressed. Following independence, the cultural and academic heritage of the city has flourished.