(August 23, 1868 – December 21, 1947)
- Did you know he was called the “poet of wood,” and his style was known as folk (folkloric) Art Nouveau?
- During his lifetime, this Slovak architect created works in Skalica, Brno, Prague, Písek, and Jičín
- He designed, for example, the cable car station in Tatranská Lomnica
- He became famous for 8 buildings in Luhačovice – an effort to get them listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites
- He also built structures commissioned by the Podhorská Jednota Radhošť – Libušín and Maměnka
- These buildings are among the symbols of the Beskydy Mountains
- In 1995, they were declared national cultural monuments
- In 1947, the nearly 80-year-old Jurkovič visited Pustevny for the last time (he died in December)
- The first major reconstruction took place between 1997 and 1999 and cost 25 million CZK
- On the night of March 2-3, 2014, Libušín burned down. More than 70 firefighters responded
- Reconstruction took place from 2017 to 2020 and cost around 117 million CZK
- Libušín was reopened in July 2020