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The river still divides the city into two main parts: Moravian Ostrava (Moravská Ostrava) and Silesian Ostrava (Slezská Ostrava). The settlement occupied a strategic position on the border between the two historic provinces of Moravia and Silesia and on the ancient trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea known as the Amber Road .
The tower is 85.6 meters high, the tallest for a town hall in the Czech Republic at the time. [3] Under the tower is placed a unique ribbed reinforced concrete slab. The tower clock weighs more than half a ton, and its dial is 3.5m in diameter. In the tower there is an information centre and a viewing terrace at 73 m. [4]
The Michal Mine (Czech: důl Michal) is a former coal mine and now a museum in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is a museum of mining located in the pit bank of a former hard coal mine. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [1] The buildings have been preserved as they looked at the turn of the 20th century.
Ostrava is the economic centre of the entire Moravian-Silesian Region. With only one exception, all the largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava-City District and at least 1,000 employees have their seat in Ostrava. The largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava and at least 1,500 employees are: [6]
A set of three successive parts - coal mine, coke ovens and blast furnace operations - also called Ostravian Hradčany, [2] after Hradčany, the Castle District of Prague. The area is registered in the list of European cultural heritage, [ 3 ] and was placed on the Czech Republic's list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 under the ...
The square is located in Ostrava-Jih, the most populous district of the Moravian-Silesian metropole. [1] Developed over the course of the 1950s, it is currently named after one of the most important historical events in Slovak history , the Slovak National Uprising (Czech: Slovenské národní povstání, Slovak : Slovenské národné povstanie).
In 2007, a new train stop called Ostrava centrum opened close to the end of the street. [1] Since 2008, the train stop has been called Ostrava-Stodolní [2] and it is supposed to make travelling to the city centre significantly easier. The street is a part of locality, which is supposed to become a new cultural quarter in the city.
Silesian Ostrava Castle (Czech: Slezskoostravský hrad) is a castle located in Ostrava, in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was originally built in the 1280s for military purposes, near the confluence of the Lučina and Ostravice rivers, near the Polish border. In 1534, the Gothic castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance ...