Before any settlement was established here, the area was used for
gold panning. The Kuks village was founded after the spa was founded here. On the slope of the
Elbe in Kuks, there used to be mineral springs. In 1692–1696, Count Sporck directed three of them at one place and built a simple spa. When the healing effects of the water were proven by professors of the
Charles-Ferdinand University and experts from
Baden-Baden, Sporck enlarged the spa. In 1696, he had built Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, followed by chateau in front of it in 1710. In 1707–1715, the
hospital and the Church of the Holy Trinity with the crypt were built. The interiors and exteriors were decorated with Baroque
sculptures by
Matthias Braun, the most famous of which are the
Virtues and Vices. Behind the hospital there was a garden, and the whole complex was closed by a cemetery. Sporck died in 1738 and his heirs were not interested in maintaining the spa. A
flood in 1740 destroyed most of the infrastructure and put the spa out of business. Kuks turned into a quiet village with mostly German population. In 1896, the uninhabited chateau burnt down and in 1901, its ruins were demolished. In 1938, Kuks was annexed by
Nazi Germany and administered as part of the
Reichsgau Sudetenland. After World War II, the German-speaking population was
expelled and replaced by
Czech settlers. ==Demographics==