Luby (German: Schönbach) is a town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

It is known for its violin-making industry, and was once dubbed the "Austrian Cremona" when Bohemia was part of Austria-Hungary.

Luby consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] The area was probably settled between 1100 and 1140.

[3] During the mid-13th century, mercury ore, particularly the vermilion variety, was mined in the area of Horní Luby.

[3] The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed in 1918, after World War I, and Schönbach became part of Czechoslovakia.

From 1938 to 1945, following the Munich Agreement, the western region of Czechoslovakia with Luby was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

[5] There were several notable luthiers and music instrument companies in Luby, including Höfner, Hoyer Guitars, John Juzek, and Plachta, Sander and Schuster families.

[9] In 1948, when the communist party took power in Czechoslovakia, the production of music instruments was nationalized and unified into a single Luby-based company called Cremona (part of Československé hudební nástroje in 1965–1992) that had been in existence since 1920.