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The New City Hall (Czech: Nová radnice) is a resperentative building in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It is the most architecturally important and largest town hall complex from the Interwar period in country. It also has a prominent Czech Modernist style clock and observation tower, the tallest from the period. [1]
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 .
Vřesina is located about 3 kilometres (2 mi) west of Ostrava. It lies in the Nízký Jeseník range. The highest point is the hill Mezihoří at 383 m (1,257 ft) above sea level.
The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Ostrava Basin (east and centre), Nízký Jeseník (west), Moravian Gate (southwest), and Opava Hilly Land (negligible part in the north). The highest point of the district is the hill Úhorky in Horní Lhota with an elevation of 404 m (1,325 ft).
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 ...
On 1 October 1938 Trans-Olza was annexed by Poland following the Munich Conference. On 1 September 1939 Zaolzie was annexed by Nazi Germany after it invaded Poland. During World War II Cieszyn Silesia was a part of Nazi Germany. Immediately after the war, its borders were returned to their 1920 state.
In 1919 it became a part of Czechoslovakia and in November of that year it was renamed to Slezská Ostrava. On 17 September 1920 it gained city rights. On 17 September 1920 it gained city rights. According to the Austrian census of 1910 Polnisch Ostrau had 22,892 inhabitants, 22,693 of whom had permanent residence there.
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.