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After founding the town of Moravská Ostrava between 1268 and 1278 on Moravian side, the village left on the Silesian side was called in contrary Slavic and later Polish. [3] Since 1290 it belonged to the Duchy of Teschen, which in 1327 became a fee of Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy.
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 (Czech pronunciation: ⓘ; Polish: Ostrawa; German: Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region.It has about 280,000 inhabitants.
Svinov (German: Schönbrunn) is a borough and municipal part of Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was a separate town, but it merged with Ostrava on 20 March 1957. It lies on the bank of the Oder River, in the Silesian part of the city. As of 2011 census, Svinov had population of 4,301. [1]
Insignia of twin towns on town hall in Kralupy nad Vltavou Map of the Czech Republic. This is a list of municipalities in the Czech Republic which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Ostrava Zoo, (Zoologická zahrada Ostrava) is a zoo, located in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. [1] Ostrava Zoo was founded as Kunčičky Zoo in 1951, on an area called the Miners' Park in Ostrava-Kunčičky. But already in 1956 construction of the new zoo in Stromovka park was undertaken, and in 1960 the zoo and animals were transferred to ...
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]
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 ...