The fire station is one of the most striking examples of Prussian brick architecture from the late nineteenth century, though few would guess that one of the town’s most decorative buildings once housed Hlučín’s fire brigade. Built in 1888 and 1889 on the Pig Market (“Svinský rynek”), it is a two-storey structure with a gabled roof in the historicist style. Stepped gables with Gothic accents crown the side façades, each with three pointed-arch windows. The remaining windows have segmental arches framed with shaped brickwork. The main façade is dominated by three ground-floor garage doors, while the entrance lies in a side annex to the right. The annex attic is unusually adorned with low stone gables topped by acroteria.
The design was the work of Stanislav Woytych (1850–1909), mayor of Hlučín and founder of its fire brigade. On his initiative the brigade was re-established in 1881 with eighty-five members. Soon afterwards, a new pump was purchased and a hose-drying tower erected. The station (also serving as a police station with a small jail) was completed in 1889 and remained in operation until 1996, when the service moved to a modern facility in Celní Street. The neglected building of the old station was sensitively restored and adapted into a guest house with a restaurant between 2000 and 2002.
